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Engineering Health Check
Independent audit of a steady-state engineering organisation against industry good practice.
4 weeks
Who this is for
New CTOs/Heads of Eng wanting a 30-day baseline. CEOs wanting an independent reality check on whether engineering is operating at the level the stage and stakeholders require. Pre-fundraise temperature checks.
When you need it
Engineering is 'fine' - but you don't actually know. You want a second opinion that isn't a Big Four deck and isn't your team marking their own homework.
What's delivered
- Practice maturity scorecard across 10 dimensions (architecture, delivery, observability, security, data, on-call, code review, hiring, performance management, knowledge transfer)
- Process review - how the team actually works vs. how it should
- Standards & good-practice benchmark (DORA, IEEE/NIST where applicable, SRE norms, twelve-factor / well-architected)
- Operating discipline audit (postmortems, on-call humanity, deployment cadence, change-management hygiene)
- Architecture posture: current state, debt inventory, scaling readiness for 12–18 months
- Risk register: top 10 risks with materiality, likelihood, owner, and remediation effort
- Prioritised improvement roadmap
- Board-ready summary
Why this consultant
Benchmarks applied from twenty years of operating against them and watching what holds - not from a framework deck.
What this sprint is not
- A code audit (light at code level - escalate to specialists if deep code review needed)
- A penetration test (practice-level only, no offensive testing)
- A change-management programme (delivers diagnosis and roadmap; client executes)
Investment
Named on the fit call
Fixed price, fixed scope. Every engagement carries the four guarantees: Sprint 1 Escape Hatch, Board-Ready Quality, Three-Client Cap, Skin-in-the-Game Pledge.