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    Take the Roadmap Assessment to track your progress across 124 capabilities. See personalized recommendations, gap analysis, and milestone readiness.

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    What you'll get:

    • Capability-level status tracking (not-started, in-progress, established)
    • Milestone readiness scores (Foundation, Acceleration, Optimization)
    • Gap analysis highlighting unmet critical criteria
    • DORA-aligned progress metrics

    0–90d

    Establish baseline practices (testable, releasable, monitorable)

    Focus: Every team can deliver features that are testable, releasable, and monitorable.

    Readiness (critical criteria met)0%Not started

    Objectives

    • Trunk-based development; protected main; PR reviews
    • CI: build + unit + lint + basic security + artifact
    • CD to non-prod; manual prod gate; env parity
    • Test strategy: unit, API, E2E smoke; test data mgmt
    • Observability: logs, metrics, basic tracing; SLO draft; runbook
    • Security baselines: dependency/image/secret scanning
    • Infrastructure as code starter; immutable artifacts
    • Release mgmt: semantic versioning; changelog; cadence policy

    Exit Criteria

    DORA Outcomes
    Deployment Frequency
    >= weekly (staging)
    Lead Time for Changes
    <= 7 days (commit to staging)
    Change Failure Rate
    <= 20%
    Mean Time to Restore Service
    <= 4h (staging)
    Practice Coverage
    Observability Coverage
    >= 80% services instrumented
    CI Success Rate
    >= 90%
    Flaky Test Rate
    < 5%
    SBOM Coverage
    >= 90% services
    Secrets Management Policy
    Approved secrets manager only
    PR Cycle Time
    p50 <= 24h
    Build Success Rates
    main >= 95%, PR >= 90%
    Ownership Coverage
    >= 90% services

    Start here (3 initiatives)

    High-impact starters for this phase.

    Backlog Quality & Planning Enablement
    Prioritized backlog mixing business and NFR, clear scenarios, estimation aligned to DoD, velocity tracking, retrospectives to plan, baseline compliance & threat modeling.
    DetailsKit
    Code Quality & Review Standards
    Trunk-based development with protected main branches, mandatory PR reviews, code quality standards, and version control best practices.
    DetailsKit
    CI/CD & Build Automation
    Automated builds, artifact management, SBOM generation, and CI pipeline templates for every team.
    DetailsKit

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