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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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maturity assessment

/məˈtjʊə.rɪ.ti əˈses.mənt/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A survey that asks a team to grade itself and is then surprised by the grade.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A structured evaluation of a program against a maturity model, producing a current-state score and improvement targets.

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See also

data governance frameworkA wheel diagram printed, framed, and never opened past the wheel diagram.
governance scorecardA dashboard reporting every metric except whether anything was decided.
maturity modelA five-level scale on which every organization assesses itself at a confident level three.