A Maturity Assessment helps you understand how ready both your organisation and your system are to grow. It looks at company culture, leadership support, funding, collaboration, and governance alongside system culture, adoption, contribution, and quality. By mapping both together, you can see where maturity is aligned, where gaps exist, and how much change your business can realistically handle.
Use this before setup to decide how to start, and later during scaling to adapt structures, contribution, or scope. Pair it with Rigidity vs Flexibility Mapping to translate maturity signals into clear direction for how strict or adaptable your system should be.
Steps
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Select dimensions
- Business: leadership support, collaboration, funding, delivery culture.
- System: adoption, contribution, documentation, and quality.
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Define scoring
Use a 1-5 scale. Describe what low, medium, and high maturity look like for each factor.
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Run the assessment
Bring in your system team and key stakeholders to score both business and system maturity honestly.
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Plot results
Map scores on a radar chart or grid to show strengths, gaps, and misalignments between business and system culture.
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Adapt decisions
Based on where you and/or your organisation currently are will determine how far you can get with the decision you're trying to make. Use these outputs to inform your next steps, whether it be deciding between a Custom vs UI Kit, Choosing a Governance Model, Scaling your system further, or running Rigidity vs Flexibility Mapping to align system behaviour with business reality.