Software Maturity Assessment: Level 2

Your Software Maturity Level Level: Intermediate

Your organization has established core development practices and is ready to scale them effectively. You're now positioned to make significant strides in automation and process consistency.

Scaling Your Practices

Teams at this stage are making progress but still encounter bottlenecks due to incomplete automation or inconsistent adoption of practices.

Key Actions and Tools

Version Control

What to do: Standardize branching strategies (e.g., GitFlow or trunk-based development). Enforce PR reviews.

Why it matters: Standardization reduces merge conflicts and improves collaboration.

Tools to try: GitHub Flow, GitLab Flow.

Deployment Practices

What to do: Automate deployments for all critical services. Implement basic rollback mechanisms.

Why it matters: Reducing downtime and deployment errors builds confidence in release processes.

Tools to try: ArgoCD, Spinnaker.

Testing Automation

What to do: Expand test coverage to include integration tests. Set code coverage goals and enforce them.

Why it matters: Broader test coverage catches more issues before they reach production.

Tools to try: Codecov, SonarQube.

Production Readiness

What to do: Define service-level objectives (SLOs) and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs).

Why it matters: Clear performance goals help detect and prioritize issues.

Tools to try: Datadog, New Relic.

Developer Autonomy

What to do: Introduce self-service tools for provisioning and deploying services.

Why it matters: Empowering developers improves efficiency and reduces bottlenecks.

OpsLevel’s role: Provide developers with a unified service catalog and self-service tools.

Priorities

1. Expand CI/CD automation.

2. Standardize version control workflows.

3. Define and track SLOs.

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