Reviews and assessments
DevOps review
An assessment of how your team builds, tests, releases and operates software, measured from your repositories and pipelines. It ends with a short roadmap that your engineers can start on the following week.
Who it is for
This is for engineering managers and CTOs whose releases are slow or risky, whose pipelines are fragile, or who want an outside benchmark before hiring or restructuring a team.
What gets reviewed
- Source control practice, branching and code review.
- CI/CD pipelines, including build times, reliability and the security of the pipeline itself.
- Automated testing and the confidence it gives to a release.
- Infrastructure as code and environment consistency.
- Release and rollback practice.
- Observability, alerting, on-call and incident review.
- The four DORA measures of deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and time to restore.
- Secrets handling and software supply chain security.
What you get
- A written assessment against each area, with evidence from your own systems.
- A prioritised roadmap for the next thirty, sixty and ninety days.
- Baseline delivery metrics that you can track afterwards.
- A session with the team to go through the findings.
- Optional hands-on coaching to carry out the roadmap.
How it runs
The review needs read access to repositories and pipelines and a few conversations with your engineers. It usually takes one to two weeks.
Common questions
What does a DevOps review cover?
It covers the path from a code change to production and what happens afterwards. That includes source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, release practice, observability and incident response.
What are DORA metrics?
DORA metrics are four measures of software delivery performance from the DevOps Research and Assessment program. They are deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore service.
Can you help implement the recommendations?
Yes. The review can be followed by DevOps coaching embedded in your team, working in your real codebase and pipelines.