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Start with the organisation and its SDLC, not another technology review.

The Organisation & SDLC-to-AI-DLC Assessment examines how value travels from a customer requirement to a trusted, running product, and what must change to remove friction. It produces a target operating model, a transition roadmap and the measures to track it.

Start with a scoping conversation

/ Scope

Six views of the same value chain.

The assessment follows the chain end to end rather than auditing one function. Each view produces findings, evidence and recommendations.

  • Product discovery, portfolio priorities and decision rights
  • Organisation structure, skills, team topology and handoffs
  • Current SDLC: queues, quality gates, delivery economics and architecture
  • AI-DLC readiness: agents, controls, validation, traceability and security
  • Release, operations, reliability, support and production learning
  • Target operating model, transition roadmap and measurable outcomes

/ How it runs

Scope, discover, synthesise, decide.

Duration is agreed in the scoping conversation and depends on the size of the organisation and the questions already on the table.

  1. 01

    Scope

    Agree the questions, the parts of the organisation in scope and who needs to be involved. Confidentiality and data handling are settled here.

  2. 02

    Discover

    Interviews with leadership, product, engineering and operations. Delivery and operational data. A walk along the chain from customer need to production feedback.

  3. 03

    Synthesise

    Findings and evidence organised along the six views, with the friction points, their causes and their cost made explicit.

  4. 04

    Decide

    A leadership readout: target operating model, transition roadmap, first moves and the measures that will show whether they worked.

/ What you get

  • A picture leadership can act on

    A clear description of how value flows today, where it stalls, and what the organisation, delivery system and controls need to look like for AI-native delivery.

  • A roadmap with measures

    Sequenced transition steps, the smallest capable team design for the product boundaries you own, and outcome measures agreed with leadership before the work begins.

/ Founder teams

In a founder team, the software factory covers all six.

One founder can take a product from idea to production when discovery, build, verification, release and operations run through the factory. The six views still apply, but they are steps in one person's week rather than functions in an organisation.

The assessment then asks a different question: what must the factory provide so that one accountable person can run the whole chain, and what has to change as the team grows.

/ Let's talk

Ready to look at the whole chain?

Start with a scoping conversation. It costs nothing and tells you whether the assessment is the right first step.

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