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Federal Bureau of Investigation's Management of Information Technology Investments

Report No. 03-09
December 2002
Office of the Inspector General


APPENDIX VI

FBI’s ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE MATURITY SURVEY

Department of Justice

Federal Bureau of Investigation: Stage 1a

Stage Description Satisfied
Stage 5:
Leveraging the EA for Managing Change


(includes all elements from stage 4)
  • Written/approved policy exists for EA maintenance
  • Either EA steering committee, investment review board, or agency head has approved EA
  • Metrics exist for measuring EA benefits
No
No

Yes
Stage 4:
Completing
Architecture
Products


(includes all elements from stage 3)
  • Written/approved policy exists for information technology investment compliance with EA
  • EA products describe enterprise's business-and the data, applications, and technology that support it.
  • EA products describe "as is" environment, "to be" environment, and sequencing plan.
  • Agency chief information officer has approved EA.
Yes

No

No

No
Stage 3:
Developing
Architecture
Products


(includes all elements from stage 2)
  • Written/approved policy exists for EA development
  • EA products are under configuration management
  • EA products describe or will describe enterprise's business-and the data, applications, and technology that support it.
  • EA products describe or will describe "as is" environment, "to be" environment, and sequencing plan.
  • EA scope is enterprise-focused
No
Yes
Yes

Yes

No
Stage 2:
Building the EA
Management
Foundation
  • Committee or group representing the enterprise is responsible for directing, overseeing, and/or approving EA.
  • Program office responsible for EA development exists.
  • Chief architect exists
  • EA being developed using a framework and automated tool.
  • EA plans call for describing enterprise in terms of business, data, applications, or technology.
  • EA plans call for describing "as is" environment, "to be" environment, or sequencing plan.
No

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Yes
Stage 1:
Creating EA
Awareness
  • Agency is aware of EA.
Yes

  1. The Federal Bureau of Investigation provided its survey response on July 18, 2001

Source: GAO Report, “INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Enterprise Architecture Use across the Federal Government Can Be Improved” (GAO-02-6).