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AZURE Enterprise DevOps & DevSecOps Maturity.

The BlakYaks Enterprise DevOps & DevSecOps Maturity Assessment for Azure customers provides a structured evaluation of your organisation's software delivery practices, tooling, governance and engineering practices.

The engagement delivers clear insight into your current maturity level and a practical roadmap to improve delivery speed, quality and security.

key challenge

Delivery Speed Without Compromising Control

Digitally focused businesses rely on their ability to deliver software and services rapidly, securely and reliably.

However, as engineering teams grow and cloud platforms evolve, many organisations discover that their DevOps practices have developed organically rather than through a conscious design

Without a mature DevSecOps capability, organisations struggle to achieve the full benefits of modern cloud platform DevOps deployments such as Azure DevOps, GitHub and GitHub Advanced Security

This assessment is particularly valuable for organisations that:

  • Are adopting or expanding DevOps or DevSecOps practices
  • Want to modernise their CI/CD pipelines
  • Need to strengthen secure software development practices
  • Are transitioning toward platform engineering models
  • Want to improve software delivery speed without increasing risk

ASSESSMENT OPTIONS

option 1

BASELINE ASSESSMENT

The Baseline Assessment evaluates your organisation’s DevOps and DevSecOps maturity across the full software delivery lifecycle.

Using a structured maturity model, we review the tools, processes, governance and engineering practices used by development and platform teams.

  • Our assessment examines the key pillars required for modern DevOps tools and performance:

    • Version Control & Collaboration

    • Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery

    • Testing & Quality Engineering

    • DevSecOps & Secure Development

    • Infrastructure as Code & Platform Engineering

    • Configuration & Secrets Management

    • Monitoring, Observability & Operational Insight

    • DevOps Culture & Operating Model

  • A single comprehensive DevOps & DevSecOps Maturity Assessment Report will be produced covering key information such as:

    • Significant Azure DevOps and DevSecOps deployment gaps (tooling and process) versus industry best practices

    • Prioritised improvement recommendations

    • Executive summary for technology leadership

    Detailed findings are presented through an interactive review session with customer stakeholders.

option 2

BASELINE+ ASSESSMENT

The Baseline+ Assessment builds upon the core Baseline Maturity Assessment and adds deeper engagement from our senior DevOps architects and platform engineering specialists.

Baseline+ moves beyond assessment to help organisations design a clear and practical improvement roadmap for modern software delivery including recommended workstreams, timelines and indicative implementation cost estimates. 

  • With Baseline+ Assessment our goal is to leave our customers with a practical, cohesive, and comprehensive plan and timeline that can be executed in a structured manner. We ensure that priorities and recommendations are fully understood and qualified.

    We can also provide estimates to support the customer’s stakeholder team to carry out the activities in the plan, working side-by-side with the right technical team members on the customers' side.

    Once remediation activities are carried out, customers are ready to accelerate the delivery of software and IaC delivery, safe in the knowledge that they have DevSecOps foundations they can trust.

  • Includes all Baseline Assessment deliverables, plus:

    • Remediation plan and activities

    • Timeline of key milestones

    • Resource and impact estimates

    • Fully qualified plan to execute

    • Recommended next steps

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TECHNICAL
DATASHEET.

what’s included?

Check out the Enterprise DevOps & DevSecOps Maturity Assessment datasheet for a detailed overview of the engagement and deliverables.

OUTCOMES

Faster AND Safer Releases

The engagement helps organisations deliver software faster while improving reliability, security and governance. Organisations completing the DevOps & DevSecOps Maturity Assessment take a major step towards:

  • Faster and more reliable software delivery
  • Improved developer productivity and collaboration
  • Earlier detection of vulnerabilities in the development lifecycle
  • Reduced operational risk and deployment failures
  • Greater visibility into application performance and reliability
  • Improved alignment between development, operations, and security teams

Contact

start your azure DEVOPS & DEVSECOPS MATURITY assessment

To discuss how the Enterprise DevOps & DevSecOps Maturity Assessment can help accelerate your organisation’s software delivery capability, contact us to arrange an initial consultation.