ServicesEngineeringHealth CheckFixed scope · weeks
An independent, practical view of your technology health.
Get a clear read on the health of your applications, architecture and engineering practice so you can reduce risk, modernise with confidence, and keep delivery flowing.
The offer
A clear view of technology health and modernisation risk.
Turn technical debt and brittle systems into a platform built to scale.
A rapid, structured assessment of your applications, architecture and engineering practice (performance, security, cloud readiness and delivery maturity), benchmarked against best practice, with a prioritised roadmap to modernise with confidence.
In just weeks, you gain clarity on:
- Where technical debt and architecture are holding you back
- Why releases are slow, risky or hard to support
- Risks across performance, security and resilience
- Opportunities to modernise, automate and move to cloud
- The practical steps to move from firefighting to flow
Best for: CTOs, architects and delivery leaders seeking an objective view of technology health and a practical roadmap for improvement.
Why it matters
Objective, benchmarked, and built to act on.
Independent
An unbiased view of how your technology really performs, free of internal assumptions, so decisions rest on evidence.
Benchmarked
Architecture, security and delivery assessed against recognised engineering and cloud standards, giving a reliable baseline for where to invest.
Actionable
Prioritised recommendations tied to clear actions, focusing effort where it reduces risk and lifts delivery.
Low disruption
A targeted approach using existing artefacts and short interviews: clarity quickly, without slowing delivery.
Your outcomes
Clear insight. Stronger foundations. A roadmap to modernise with confidence.
Through targeted interviews, architecture and code reviews and platform analysis, we benchmark your current technology and delivery maturity against best practice. We assess not just the systems, but the engineering practices and operating model that sustain them.
A clear, practical set of findings and recommendations.
Rather than a theoretical strategy, we deliver actionable direction: reducing risk, shortening the path from idea to production, and positioning your platform to scale.
Our method
A structured, evidence-based assessment.
Our Technology Health Check combines stakeholder interviews with architecture, code and platform reviews to build a clear picture of how your technology performs today. We benchmark current practice against recognised engineering, security and cloud standards.
Our method considers the whole engineering system (architecture, delivery pipelines, security and operations), so recommendations are practical and relevant to modern delivery.
- Step 01
Stakeholder interviews
We hear from architects, engineers and delivery leaders on constraints, pain points and goals.
- Step 02
Architecture & code review
We examine architecture, applications and integration against the evidence of how they run.
- Step 03
Security & cloud benchmark
We assess performance, security and cloud readiness against best practice.
- Step 04
Findings & roadmap
We prioritise practical recommendations and sequence the moves that matter most, first.
What we assess
Eight areas of focus.
Enterprise architecture
Target-state architecture and alignment to business capability. Ensures technology stays coherent, scalable and strategic.
Solution architecture
How solutions are designed for context, balancing performance, security and cost. Ensures the right thing is built to fit.
Application health
The state of core applications and technical debt. Ensures systems are maintainable, supportable and fit for purpose.
Integration
How cleanly systems connect across the estate. Ensures data and process flow reliably between platforms.
Cloud & infrastructure
Cloud readiness, resilience and operational fitness on platforms like Azure. Ensures systems are secure, performant and ready to scale.
Security
Controls protecting systems and data across the lifecycle. Ensures risk exposure is understood and reduced.
Quality & testing
The rigour of testing and assurance. Ensures releases are predictable and confidence is earned.
DevOps & delivery
Automation of build, release and operations. Ensures value flows safely and quickly from idea to production.