Maturity assessment
Delivery, reliability and security scored against a fixed model, with the evidence cited for each rating so the result can be argued with, not just accepted.
Optimisation & Advisory
DevOps Assessment & Enablement
A clear read on where delivery hurts, a costed 90-day plan, and skills to run it.
The work
What this actually does
Most teams already know something is slow; what they lack is agreement on which problem to fix first and what it will cost. We assess delivery, reliability and security against a fixed model, pull the evidence from your repositories, pipelines, incident history and cloud accounts, and write down what is genuinely working versus what only looks fine on a status slide.
The assessment ends with a prioritised 90-day roadmap: each item carries an owner, an effort estimate and the outcome it is meant to move. Then we stay to help deliver the first slice, pairing with your engineers so the plan does not become another document that ages in a shared drive.
If any of these sound familiar
- Every review produces a deck and no decisions
- Nobody agrees which of the twenty problems matters most
- Platform knowledge sits with one person who is leaving
- Improvements stall because the team was never taught how
Scope
What's included
Every engagement on this page covers the following, sized to your setup rather than delivered as a fixed package. If something here is not relevant to you, it comes off the scope and off the price.
Prioritised roadmap
A 90-day plan ordered by impact against effort, with each item carrying a named owner, a rough cost and the metric it should move.
Hands-on pairing
We work in your repositories alongside your engineers on real tickets, so new practices are learned on the codebase rather than demonstrated on a sample project.
Baseline metrics
Lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and time to restore measured before and after, so improvement is a number rather than a feeling.
Written findings
A short report that separates blockers from annoyances, states what we would do first with your constraints, and lists what we would deliberately leave alone.
Enablement sessions
Workshops, code reviews and walkthroughs scheduled around delivery, covering the specific tools your team already runs instead of a generic curriculum.
What changes
What teams typically see
90 daysPrioritised roadmap horizon
4 metricsBaseline DORA measures
1 teamFully enabled to run it
Handover
What you keep
Everything produced during the engagement is yours: the repositories, the accounts, the documentation. There is no proprietary layer and nothing to unlicense if you take the work in-house.
- Assessment report with evidence and scored maturity levels
- Prioritised 90-day roadmap with owners and effort estimates
- Baseline delivery and reliability metrics dashboard
- Runbook and handover pack for the first improvements
- Enablement plan covering workshops, pairing and review
Tooling
Tools we use here
A starting point, not a requirement. We work in whatever you already run wherever it does the job.
Terraform
Kubernetes
GitHub
Argo CD
Grafana
Prometheus
How it runs
From first call to handover
The same four steps on every engagement. You see each one before it starts and can stop at any of them.
- 01
Run the assessment
Interviews, repository and pipeline review, incident history and a look at the cloud accounts, gathered over one to two weeks depending on estate size.
- 02
Present the findings
We walk your leads through what we found, name the trade-offs, and agree which problems are worth solving this quarter and which can wait.
- 03
Deliver the first slice
We pair with your engineers on the top roadmap items, writing the changes together so the approach is absorbed rather than documented and handed over.
- 04
Hand over and review
We step back once the team is running the cadence, returning at 30 and 90 days to check the metrics have held rather than quietly slipped.
Questions
Asked before we start
Is this just a report we will never use?
The report is deliberately short and each recommendation is scoped, costed and tied to a metric. Most teams start the first item in the same fortnight, and we stay on to help with it rather than leaving a PDF behind.
How do you avoid telling us what we already know?
We test our assumptions against your own evidence: pipelines, incident tickets, pull request history and cloud bills. When something is already well run, we say so and move on. The value is in the ordering and the costed plan, not in discovering that deploys are manual.
Will our engineers actually have time for this?
It is a real cost and we plan for it. Assessment interviews are short and scheduled around delivery, and pairing happens on tickets your team already has. If the calendar cannot absorb it, the roadmap will not survive either, so we would rather find that out early.
Do you work alongside our existing vendors?
Yes, when that makes sense. We will join your change process and review forums, and we are comfortable handing specific workstreams to other suppliers. The roadmap names interfaces and owners so responsibility does not fall between two contracts.
Optimisation & Advisory
Often needed alongside this
Optimisation & Advisory
Cloud Cost Optimisation (FinOps)
Find the 30% of your bill nobody can justify, then keep it gone with budgets and guardrails.
- Spend visibility, tagging and chargeback
- Rightsizing, savings plans and spot strategy
- Automated anomaly alerts and budget guardrails
Optimisation & Advisory
24/7 Managed DevOps Support
An on-call team on the other end of the pager, with agreed response targets and monthly incident reporting.
- 24/7 monitoring, triage and incident response
- Contractual response and resolution targets
- Monthly reliability and cost reporting
Optimisation & Advisory
Training & Team Enablement
Your engineers learn to run the platform themselves — through pairing, workshops and internal runbooks.
- Tailored workshops on IaC, Kubernetes and CI/CD
- Pairing and code review on real work
- Internal knowledge base so it stays in-house
Worth a conversation about DevOps Assessment & Enablement?
Bring the specific problem. We will tell you honestly whether this is the service that fixes it, and what it would take.