We often find that the bottleneck in a ‘slow’ software team is poor deployment and release hygiene rather than the development process itself.
A code change that takes days or even hours gets stuck for weeks in a manual, error-prone process with hand-offs, delays, flaky and inconsistent environments, unnecessary documentation, coordination and release meetings, compliance theatre, and myriad other bumps in the road.
By modelling this entire value chain, from code commit to live, we can demonstrate where the real issues are and start to tackle problems that will have a measurable impact, either on stability and reliability or on time to value, often both.
This often leads to adopting modern engineering practices across the team or programme to systematically improve the path to production.