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Date

07 Jun 2017

Attendees

• Ayodele Carter-Davis, The George Washington University
• Bob Dein, Miami University (Ohio)
• Dan Kiskis, University of Michigan
• Greg Charest, Harvard University
• J.J. du Chateau, University of Wisconsin
• Jose Cedeno, Oregon State University
• Louis King, Yale University (facilitator)
• Maher Shinouda, University of Waterloo
• Piet Niederhausen, University of Washington (scribe)

Goals

• Review initial draft of Brainstorming EA Maturity Levels and Characteristics v0.2 
• Develop consensus on framework
• Discuss working on elements that fall under the maturity attributes

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Documents

• Maturity Levels and Characteristics

• Attribute Brainstorming

Discussion

We reviewed the first page intro to the model.

• General agreement that this is fine just now

• Jose suggested there could be a clarifying illustration of where EA fits in the enterprise

• There could be more on the high level goals and value proposition of EA as a function

• There could be definitions of terms in a glossary or part of the introduction

We discussed the levels of the model.

• Agreed on five levels

• Revised some headings from “ing” to “ed”, to reflect that in the middle levels, the cells will contain criteria for what constitutes maturity at that level -- whereas at level 0, initiation is in progress, and at level 5, continuous improvement is in progress

We discussed the scope of EA.

• The maturity levels don’t map to scope; scope is a “row”; a high maturity practice could choose to not expand into business domains

• In general scope of coverage should not be a measure of maturity

We discussed the Coverage section.

• We probably need to blow out the items here in more detail to make sure we agree on the categories.

We discussed what goes in a cell. Is it:

• What you are able to do at this level

• A capability you need to have to be at this level

• An activity you typically do at this level

• An activity you need to do to achieve a capability

• An outcome achieved at this level

Action items

•  ALL - We discussed how we’ll proceed on the Attribute Brainstorming grid but did not start filling it in yet.