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Organizational Technical Health Assessment
Organization Health — Technical Assessment — Free Assessment
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Technical Architecture
Is the overall technical architecture documented with up-to-date diagrams covering all major systems and their integrations?
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Is the architecture designed for the organization's projected growth over the next 2–3 years without a major re-platform?
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Technical Debt Management
Is technical debt tracked in a backlog or register with prioritization by business impact?
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Is a defined percentage of each engineering sprint or quarter allocated to technical debt reduction?
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System Reliability & Uptime
Are uptime and availability targets (SLAs/SLOs) formally defined for all production systems?
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Is there a documented incident response process with defined severity levels, escalation paths, and post-mortems?
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Security Posture
Is there a current inventory of all security controls mapped to the systems and data they protect?
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Is there a vulnerability management process that identifies, prioritizes, and remediates vulnerabilities within defined SLAs?
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Engineering Practices
Is peer code review required for all changes merged to the main or production branch?
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Is automated test coverage (unit + integration) tracked and maintained above a defined minimum threshold?
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DevOps & CI/CD Maturity
Are all production deployments executed through an automated CI/CD pipeline — with no manual file transfers or remote access deployments?
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Is the engineering team able to deploy to production at least weekly without a scheduled release window?
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Cloud & Infrastructure Management
Is cloud infrastructure provisioned and managed through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or equivalent)?
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Is cloud spend monitored with budget alerts, and are cost anomalies investigated within 48 hours of detection?
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Data Architecture & Governance
Is the data model (schemas, entity relationships, data flows) documented and kept current?
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Are automated data quality checks in place to detect and alert on anomalies or schema violations in production data pipelines?
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Observability & Monitoring
Is structured logging in place across all production services with logs aggregated to a centralized, searchable platform?
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Are automated alerts configured for all critical system metrics (error rate, latency, saturation, traffic)?
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Technology Vendor Management
Is there a technology vendor register with contract terms, renewal dates, and SLA commitments documented?
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Has the organization assessed its vendor concentration risk and identified single-vendor dependencies for critical systems?
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Technical Talent & Capability
Is there a documented skills matrix for the engineering team covering critical technical competencies?
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Is there at least one other team member who can cover each critical system in the event of an unplanned absence?
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Technology Governance & Planning
Is there a documented technology strategy aligned to the business plan, reviewed and updated at least annually?
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Is technology performance (reliability, security posture, delivery velocity) reported to the board or executive leadership quarterly?
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