“Every release breaks something.”

You'll recognize it

• →Customers report bugs before your monitoring does.
• →The team gets nervous before every release.
• →The same kinds of incidents keep coming back.
• →Firefighting eats the time meant for the roadmap.

What's usually underneath

Different causes need different fixes.

The same symptom can come from several places. These are the patterns most often behind it, and the ones the assessment scores against your stage.

Technical foundationFree assessment

Whether the codebase can absorb change without breaking. The comprehensive also asks how fast you find and diagnose problems in production.

Focus & prioritiesFree assessment

When everything is urgent, testing and cleanup get cut first, and dates met with heroics get paid back in rework.

Role clarity & accountabilityFree assessment

If nobody owns quality, everyone assumes someone else checked.

Self-awarenessFree assessment

Whether the team catches its mistakes before customers do, and talks about them openly when it doesn't.

Team structureComprehensive

When an outcome spans teams and nobody owns it, the bugs live in the handoffs.

The cost of waiting

Every incident costs twice: once to fix it, and again in the work that didn't get done. Customers lose trust a little at a time, and a team that's afraid to ship starts shipping less.

Find out which one is yours

Six minutes. A specific first move.

The free assessment scores your team on these patterns, calibrated to your stage, and names the two or three gaps most worth fixing first, with a first move for each. It's built on the patterns in The Compounding Team.

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