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Platform Engineering
Maturity Assessment

Built for engineering, operations, security, and data teams who want an honest read on where their Internal Developer Platform actually stands. Five pillars. Four maturity levels each. A roadmap built from where you score, not where you'd like to be.

5
Maturity pillars assessed
8
Technical domains covered
100%
Free

// What's Inside

Know where your
platform practice stands.

// 01

Maturity Assessment Matrix

Scores across Developer Experience, Internal Developer Platform, Observability & Reliability, Security & Compliance, and Operational Efficiency. Four maturity levels per pillar, with explicit criteria at each level – so scoring isn't a guess.

// 02

Actionable Insight Logic

Score-based logic that converts your maturity profile into specific, prioritised actions. The output names what you should fix first and explains why – built for your actual combination of scores, not a generic list.

// 03

90-Day Strategic Roadmap

A roadmap anchored to your scores, sequenced by dependency. Quick wins where they exist, foundational investments where they're needed. The decisions that gate later phases are flagged up front.


// Get the Assessment

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Maturity Assessment now

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    // Technical Coverage

    Eight domains.
    Nothing assumed.

    Strategy & Internal Developer Platform

    Self-service capabilities, golden paths, and platform APIs. The difference between a platform engineers actually use and one they quietly route around.

    Self-Service & Developer Experience

    Onboarding time, environment provisioning, local dev parity, and documentation quality. The friction points that look trivial individually and collectively grind delivery teams to a halt.

    Automation & CI/CD Pipelines

    Deployment frequency, change failure rate, mean time to restore, and pipeline architecture. The four DORA metrics that give you an honest read on whether your engineering organisation is high-performing.

    Security & Compliance Automation

    Shift-left security, policy as code, secrets management, and SBOM practices. The audit overhead that good compliance automation removes – permanently, rather than just in the weeks before a review.

    Adoption & Platform Metrics

    DORA metrics, platform adoption rates, developer NPS, and toil measurement. The signals that tell you whether the platform is actually helping teams ship faster or just adding another layer to manage.

    Observability & Reliability Engineering

    Metrics, logs, traces, SLO definition and enforcement, and on-call design. The observability coverage you need before you can operate at scale with any confidence.

    Platform Operations & Infrastructure as Code

    IaC coverage, state management, drift detection, and GitOps maturity. The automation gaps that introduce operational risk slowly – and then very suddenly.

    Optimisation & Cost Engineering

    FinOps maturity, tagging governance, rightsizing processes, and reservation strategy. The unit economics visibility that makes scaling decisions feel considered rather than guessed at.


    // Get in touch

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    what the assessment surfaces?

    If it surfaces something worth a conversation, our platform engineers are easy to reach. We won't be pitching you – just a straight discussion about where your practice is and where it needs to go.