The author team of this paper has been heavily involved in pioneering and leading maturity mod-els. Standing on the shoulders of this track-record, we have coined a possible response on how maturity models might still have an important role to play in theorizing about why, how and where government progresses in their use of digital technologies. Also, we argue that maturity models have an important role to play for practice in their navigation in a yet more multifaceted techno-logical dependent government. In this positioning paper we put forward what we see as ten mis-understandings of maturity models. Also, we discuss how maturity models can be an integrated part of digital government research.