Know Where You Stand. Know Where to Go.

A DevOps maturity assessment gives you an objective view of your current delivery capability — and a prioritised 90-day roadmap to measurably improve it.

Duration: 2-4 weeks Team: 1 DevOps Transformation Lead
The Challenge

You might be experiencing...

Leadership wants 'DevOps' but nobody agrees on what that means for your organisation — every team is doing something different.
You've hired DevOps engineers but delivery hasn't improved — the bottleneck is culture and process, not tooling.
You're migrating from on-premise to cloud and need to understand what your DevOps capability needs to look like on the other side.
A new CTO is joining and wants an objective view of the engineering team's delivery capability before making investment decisions.

DevOps transformation is not about adopting a specific set of tools — it’s about measurably improving how fast and reliably your organisation delivers software. The starting point is always the same: understand where you are today, using data.

Contact us to book a DevOps maturity assessment — we’ll start with a free 30-minute discovery call to understand your current situation.

Our Approach

Engagement Phases

Week 1-2

Assessment

Structured interviews with engineering, product, and operations teams. Review of DORA metrics (or proxy data), tooling, processes, and incident history. Benchmark against DORA Elite/High/Medium/Low performer classifications.

Week 3

Findings & Roadmap

Maturity assessment report: current state by DORA dimension (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR). Prioritised 90-day improvement roadmap with effort and impact estimates.

Week 4

Roadmap Kickoff

Present findings to engineering leadership and CTO. Facilitate prioritisation workshop. Define success metrics and ownership for each initiative. Optional: retain us to execute the roadmap.

What You Get

Deliverables

DevOps maturity assessment report (DORA benchmark)
DORA metrics baseline (current deployment frequency, lead time, CFR, MTTR)
Toolchain and process audit findings
Prioritised 90-day transformation roadmap
Success metrics and measurement plan
Executive summary for leadership
Expected Outcomes

Before & After

MetricBeforeAfter
Delivery VisibilityNo baseline metrics — 'we ship weekly' but no dataDORA metrics tracked: deployment frequency, lead time, CFR, MTTR
Investment FocusDevOps initiatives spread thin — everything is a priorityTop 3 highest-leverage improvements identified and sequenced
AlignmentEngineering, product, and ops have different views on what's brokenShared diagnosis, shared roadmap, shared success metrics
Technology

Tools We Use

DORA Four Keys Framework SPACE Framework Accelerate (Forsgren et al.)
Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

What are DORA metrics?

DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics are four measures of software delivery performance: Deployment Frequency (how often you deploy to production), Lead Time for Changes (time from commit to production), Change Failure Rate (% of deployments causing incidents), and Mean Time to Restore (how long to recover from an incident). DORA research (published in the 'Accelerate' book) shows that elite software organisations deploy 973x more frequently and recover from incidents 6,570x faster than low performers.

How long does a DevOps assessment take?

Our standard assessment takes 2-3 weeks: one week for interviews and data collection, one week for analysis, and a third week for the report and roadmap workshop. For larger organisations (500+ engineers), we scale the interview process but maintain the same timeline by running parallel workstreams.

We already know what's broken — do we still need an assessment?

Internal teams often have strong intuitions about their biggest bottlenecks, but they're frequently wrong about root causes. The most common pattern we see: teams believe their main issue is tooling (we need to switch from Jenkins to GitHub Actions) when the real issue is branching strategy and environment promotion workflow. An objective external assessment prevents expensive tooling changes that don't address the actual bottleneck.

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