Workspaces: How the Score of a Survey Is Calculated

This section explains how survey scores are calculated in workspaces. When users complete a survey, the score for the assessed element is calculated based on the answers given.

Most survey questions in workspaces have four possible answers, but some have two or three.

• For questions with five possible answers, the score is 1-5.

• For questions with four possible answers, the score is 1-4.

• For questions with three possible answers, the score is 1-3.

• For questions with two possible answers, the score is either 1 or 4.

Once the survey is completed, the scores for all questions are added together and converted to a percentage-based score between 0 and 100. Here's an example to illustrate how this works:

Example: Application Investment Planning Template

The Application Investment Planning template includes a survey that lets you assess the business fitness of applications:

• The survey contains 16 questions with four answer options (worth 1-4 points), one question with three answer options (worth 1-3 points) and two questions with two answer options (worth 1 or 4 points).
• The minimum possible score for the survey is 19 (19 x 1) points, which corresponds to the case where the user selects the lowest possible answer option for each question.
• The maximum possible score is 75 (16 x 4 + 1 x 3 + 2 x 4) points, which corresponds to the case where the user selects the highest possible answer option for each question.
• To standardise the score to a 0-100 scale, the minimum achievable score of 19 points corresponds to 0% and the maximum achievable score of 75 points corresponds to 100%. All other possible scores fall between these two values.

note

Some questions are internally marked as irrelevant for calculating the survey score. These answers contribute to machine learning predictions but do not affect the overall score. In the default ArchiMate Application Library that comes with ADOIT, only one question is marked this way: Question 18, "What is the lifecycle stage of the application?" in the "IT fit" survey.