Your maturity levels – chaotic to leading edge – describe your capability in each of the knowledge areas. You can use these levels as a simple summary to explain to colleagues and leadership how good your organization is currently, and to make a case for change.

No! In some situations, one person may know all the answers, but it is much more common that several individuals will need to contribute. You can have multiple people contribute to an assessment, and often you will find knowledge areas tend to follow the expertise of individuals, so you can ask them to complete an entire knowledge area for your assessment.

However, in the end, all the questinos need to be answered by someone so that maturity can be properly assessed.