Rapid Battle Cards 16–30
16 — Framework Customization vs Framework Integrity
- Customization: adapt focus/scope for the assessment.
- Integrity: preserve rigor, meaning, traceability, comparability.
- Trap: remove criteria but keep original labels as though nothing changed.
17 — Accessibility vs Comprehensiveness
- Accessibility: practices are understandable and usable.
- Comprehensiveness: broad enough coverage for objectives/business engagement.
- Clue: ease of understanding vs breadth of coverage.
18 — Flexible/Extensible vs Prescriptive
- Flexible/extensible: adaptable structure.
- Prescriptive: dictates how implementation must be done.
- Good framework clue: it can fit context without forcing one method.
19 — Neutral Framework vs Vendor/Tool-Specific Framework
- Neutral: avoids conflicts and tool bias.
- Vendor-specific: ties maturity to product/implementation choice.
- Clue: practices vs product adoption.
20 — Repeatable Framework vs One-Off Workshop
- Repeatable: consistent interpretation and comparison over time.
- One-off: non-comparable event.
- Clue: can reassessment reproduce meaningful measurement?
21 — Gather Information vs Perform Assessment
- Gather: collect ratings and evidence.
- Perform assessment: assign, reconcile, and interpret ratings using criteria.
- Clue: collection vs judgment.
22 — Interpret Results vs Create Roadmap
- Interpret: explain meaning and target-state implications.
- Roadmap: sequence implementation actions.
- Clue: understand the gap vs move the capability.
23 — Reassess Maturity vs Casual Rerun
- Reassess: scheduled comparable trend measurement.
- Casual rerun: changed/uncontrolled parameters.
- Clue: comparability to baseline.
24 — Buy-In Risk vs Expertise Risk
- Buy-in: stakeholder commitment/participation.
- Expertise: assessment-method or DM knowledge gap.
- Mitigation: sponsor/socialization vs specialist/training.
25 — Stale Evidence vs No Evidence
- Stale: proof exists but may not represent current practice.
- No evidence: proof is absent.
- Clue: age/validity vs absence.
26 — Narrow Scope vs Inaccessible Staff/Systems
- Narrow scope: limited coverage by design.
- Inaccessibility: intended coverage cannot be evidenced.
- Clue: planned boundary vs access failure.
27 — Data Governance Oversight vs Executive Sponsorship
- DG oversight: governs the DMMA process and improvement lifecycle.
- Sponsor: supplies business authority, commitment, objective linkage.
- Clue: process governance vs executive mandate.
28 — DMMA Rating vs Rate of Change
- Rating: capability snapshot.
- Rate of change: maturity movement over time.
- Memory hook: state vs motion.
29 — Resource Utilization vs Spend Management
- Resource utilization: human effort/capacity cost.
- Spend management: allocation, value, sustainability of cost.
- Example: hours of manual reconciliation vs whether investment is delivering value.
30 — Risk Exposure vs Assessment Input Coverage
- Risk exposure: capability vs business/risk scenario.
- Input coverage: completeness/depth of evidence behind the score.
- Clue: “Can we handle the risk?” vs “How much did this score actually cover?”
Source: Chapter 15, pp. 510–520.