User:APaskulin (WMF)/Sandbox/Arch maturity

Capability maturity model
Green boxes indicate current state.

Architecture process
Integrates decisions being made and the process of architectural decision making. The architectural process is part of the development of ideas and initiatives. A systems point of view is part of the shared cultural vocabulary.

Architecture development
Architecture grows beyond a series of discussions into a (digital) space where target architectures, system models, ideas, initiatives, patterns and heuristics are emerging.

Architecture governance
Integrates shorter term decisions and the target architecture / system as a whole. Expressed as governance heuristics that are standards followed as best practice and establish a well-designed system (infused by conceptual integrity)

Architecture communication
Integrating an architecture space and people using it. Expressed by leadership and teams engaging with the architecture space, receiving regular updates and using the tools daily, as part of the culture.

Organizational linkage
Integrating organizational goals and product with technology. Expressed as product and technology work as an integrated team with other Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to deliver the highest-value outcomes during the architecture process.

Senior leadership involvement
Integrating the priorities of senior / executive management and the architecture under development. Expresses as effective rituals of demoing and gathering feedback that increase the value of tradeoffs and deliver a trustworthy and transparent architectural change management process.

Team and cross-functional participation
Integrating engineering and architecture. Expressed as engineering decisions and initiatives connect to the architecture space, where iterative architectural improvements and refinements continue during development.

Community participation
Integrates users and architecture. Expressed as s structured process, relying on community SMEs, for gathering user feedback, testing assumptions and iteratively introducing architectural change to the community.

Resources
https://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap27.html