Platform Engineering Maturity Assessment
DevOps & Platform Engineering
Motivation
Many organizations struggle to unlock the full potential of their cloud-native investments, leading to developer friction and slower innovation. This offering provides a rapid pathway to platform engineering success by establishing a product-centric framework aligned with developer needs. Leveraging the CNCF Platform Engineering Maturity Model, we quickly establish a baseline of your current platform capabilities and developer experience.
Through targeted workshops and analysis, we identify key pain points and opportunities for improvement, ultimately empowering your development teams and accelerating software delivery.
What we bring
With over 20 years of experience in software development for many of the world's largest companies, PRODYNA will help you accelerate your journey to platform engineering maturity. We bring a focused approach, leveraging the CNCF framework to deliver tangible results quickly:
- Rapid assessment methodology based on proven platform engineering principles.
- Expertise in facilitating developer experience workshops to uncover critical insights.
- Deep understanding of the CNCF Platform Engineering Maturity Model and its practical application.
- Ability to translate assessment findings into actionable improvement strategies.
- Focus on delivering a heat map that prioritizes improvements based on impact and effort.
What you need
Key to success is the availability of development team members and stakeholders for participation in workshops and surveys. A willingness to openly discuss current processes and challenges is also important, as is a commitment to exploring data-driven improvements to your developer platform.
What you get
You'll get a clear baseline of your platform maturity based on the CNCF model. We'll help you understand your developers' experience through personas and journey maps, pinpointing their key pain points. You'll receive a prioritized heat map of actionable steps to improve your platform, optimized for impact and effort. This offering provides you with a data-driven roadmap to increase developer productivity and accelerate your software delivery. PRODYNA will guide you and your staff through the entire process in the following phases:
Kickoff
(generally 1 day)
We'll start by aligning expectations on the assessment goals and timeline for this offering. You'll receive an introduction to the CNCF Platform Engineering Maturity Model, providing context for the evaluation process. We'll collaboratively plan the developer workshops together crucial feedback from your teams. Finally, we'll outline the next steps and ensure everyone is clear on the path forward.
Developer Experience Workshops
(generally 2-3 weeks)
PRODYNA will facilitate workshops to deeply understand your end-to-end development process. We'll define key personas (e.g., App Developer, DevOps Engineer, QA Engineer) and map their typical tasks and workflows as developer journeys. This includes detailing specific steps, the tools they use, and the challenges they face. By visualizing these journeys, we aim to uncover friction points, identify bottle necks in your processes, and pinpoint sources of developer frustration. This empathetic approach ensures the platform framework we establish truly aligns with your development teams' needs, driving higher adoption and significant impact. The insights gathered here are crucial for building a developer platform that demonstrably enhances productivity and developer satisfaction.
Maturity Mapping
(generally 1-2 weeks)
PRODYNA will now map your current developer platform's capabilities and identify any gaps based on the insights from the developer experience workshops. For each capability, we will assess its maturity across key dimensions:
- Investment: Level of resources and focus.
- Adoption: How widely used and integrated it is.
- Interfaces: Ease of use and accessibility.
- Operations: Reliability and maintainability.
- Measurement: How effectively its performance is tracked.
We will compile a heat map visualizing the maturity of each capability, highlighting areas of strength and weakness. This heat map will also include recommended actions to improve maturity, prioritized based on their potential impact on developer experience and the effort required for implementation. This data-driven approach provides a clear roadmap for evolving your platform to better serve your development teams.
Review and plan
(generally 0,5 day)
As the final step, we will review the assessment findings, including the maturity baseline and the prioritized heat map. Collaboratively, we'll define concrete next steps and an action plan for platform improvements based on the recommendations. This ensures a clear path to boosting developer productivity and accelerating software delivery.
Quick facts
- Duration: 4-6 weeks
- Understand your developers
- Quickly assesses your platform maturity
- Compile action plan for platform evolution
Benefits
- Accelerates Delivery: Streamlined workflows get software to market faster.
- Boosts Productivity: Empowered developers focus on building, not overhead.
- Increases Satisfaction: Better experience leads to happier, engaged teams.
- Data-Driven Improvement: Clear insights guide targeted platform evolution.
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