DORA assessment
Deploy frequency, lead time, change-fail, MTTR — measured against your actual data, not your sense of the room.
measured · benchmarkedCloud & DevOps · 02 of 04
An honest reading of your DevOps reality.
We don't sell a maturity model; we run a maturity assessment. DORA metrics, value-stream mapping, real interviews with your engineers — and a roadmap that says what to do Monday, not what to aspire to in 2028.
4 wkDiscovery → roadmap
DORAMeasured, not assumed
0Buzzword-driven deliverables
What you get
A diagnosis your engineers will recognize.
Six deliverables on every consulting engagement — specific, scored, signed.
Value-stream mapping
From idea to production. Where work waits, where it gets reworked, where the queue eats your week.
VSM · wait · reworkTeam topology
Stream-aligned, platform, enabling, complicated-subsystem teams. Right shape for the work; not a re-org for re-orgs sake.
topology · interactionsSecurity & compliance
Shift-left status, secrets posture, SBOM, SOC 2 / ISO posture — honest, with a remediation order.
shift-left · SBOM · auditTooling rationalization
Which tools to keep, consolidate, retire. Cost line, contract line, engineering-time line on each one.
keep · consolidate · retireFunded roadmap
Quick wins, quarter goals, annual asks. Cost, owner, dependencies — not a wishlist, a budget.
funded · sequenced · ownedHow we work
Listen, measure, sequence, hand off.
Four phases over four weeks. The output is a plan your engineers helped write — which is the only kind that survives the next quarter.
The findings are obvious. The order is the value.
Most consulting engagements deliver a list of 60 things. Ours deliver an order. The first 6 are funded and started; the rest get queued or killed.
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Listen, in private
One-on-one with 12–25 engineers, PMs and ops. No managers in the room. The truth shows up.
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Measure, with data
Git, CI, incident, cloud-bill, ticketing. We pull the numbers; opinions stop mattering.
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Sequence, honestly
Quick wins identified by impact-over-effort, not by what looks good in a slide.
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Hand off, not lock-in
Your team owns the roadmap when we leave. We’ll execute alongside if you want — not because you have to.
Frameworks & tools
Frameworks we'll use. Frameworks we'll skip.
We've opinions. We'll share them, in writing, on day one.
Assessment frameworks
DORASPACECALMSTeam Topologies
Cloud well-arch
AWS WAFAzure WAFGCP Arch Center
Metrics & signals
JellyfishLinearBSleuthCode Climate
Value stream
VSMWardley mapsBottleneck analysis
Security posture
SLSASBOMNIST 800-218OWASP DSOMM
FinOps
FinOps FrameworkCloudabilityVantageKubecost
Process
Flow metricsKanbanService blueprints
What we won’t do
SAFe rituals2-year transformationsNo-evidence scoring
From vision to victory
Four weeks to a signed roadmap.
A bounded engagement — not the start of a multi-year retainer.
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Week 1Kick-off & access
Get into Git, CI, monitoring and the cloud bill. Schedule interviews.
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Week 2Listen
15–25 one-on-ones. Off the record. Themes captured, not names.
03
Week 3Measure
DORA pulled from data. Value streams mapped. Costs reconciled to delivery.
04
Week 4Sequence & sign
Findings & roadmap reviewed with leadership, refined, signed. First six items started.
05
OptionalExecute
If you’d like — we’ll embed and ship the quick wins alongside your team.
Where it lands
Three consulting engagements that moved the needle.
No two-year transformation. Each one finished, with the metric that proves it.
From weekly to daily deploys.
50-engineer SaaS, three monoliths, fortnightly releases. Six-week consulting + tooling sprint moved the org to daily deploys, no SLA cost.
14d → 1dDeploy cadence
+38%Stories / sprint
DORATeam TopologiesGitHub Actions
Cut the toolchain in half.
40 overlapping CI/CD & observability tools across an enterprise. Rationalized to 14. Same outcomes, less context-switching, materially smaller bill.
40 → 14Tools
−$2.1MAnnual contracts
Tool auditVSMFinOps
Platform team that actually served streams.
200-engineer scale-up with a platform team nobody wanted to use. Topology redesign + golden-path products turned the platform into the path of least resistance.
62%Stream teams on platform
−47%Platform Slack DMs
Team TopologiesBackstage
Why ETY
Consultants who built it themselves.
4 wkBounded engagement — no multi-year transformations.
DORA-ledEvery recommendation tied to a metric we can read in a quarter.
22Median recommendations per engagement — sequenced, not listed.
0Re-orgs we've proposed in the last three years without data.
Diagnose first. Then remediate.
Give us four weeks. We'll come back with DORA numbers, value-stream maps, and a sequenced roadmap your engineers helped write.