Concepts

Adoption stages

CSDM maturity is a journey — crawl, walk, run, fly — and a model that emits fly-stage artifacts into a crawl-stage program creates noise, not maturity. ServiceMatch stages its output to match where the program actually is.

Capture is never gated

The stage never limits what ServiceMatch learns. Stakeholder claims, evidence, and attribution are captured in full at every stage. What the stage governs is what gets emitted: which workbook sheets are produced, which service relationships ship, which structural entities appear in exports.

Stage	What emission looks like
Crawl	Device CIs and governance artifacts — the foundation, clean.
Walk	Technology-management-parented service structure begins to ship; the business layer stays captured but held.
Run	Business-service offerings and evidence-confirmed placements ship alongside the management layer.
Fly	The full model, including structural capability entities, ships to the instance.

Promotion is a decision, not a drift

Design Principle

Moving between stages is a governed operator decision that lands on the decision record. The system warns and asks; it never blocks capture and it never promotes silently.