Enterprise Architecture Value Model - Recognize the signals that indicate a Level 3 posture

Enterprise Architecture Value Model

Chapter 23. Recognize the signals that indicate a Level 3 posture

Your architecture function has a defined, named practice whose explicit mandate is engagement with at-risk and high-risk initiatives.
Architects in the practice are measured by delivery outcomes — program success rates, risk resolution, timeline recovery — not by advisory output metrics.
Your architecture function is on the short list of contacts you reach for when a significant program is in serious difficulty.
Delivery leaders in your organization refer to specific architecture practitioners by name when discussing program recovery — the practice has built individual credibility with the delivery community.
The architecture function’s budget is not discussed as a reduction candidate because its contribution to delivery outcomes is visible, recent, and concrete.
Business unit leaders who have seen the practice engage with programs affecting their operations are advocates for the architecture function with their own leadership.
You have stopped needing to defend the architecture function’s budget and have started needing to answer questions about whether it has sufficient capacity.