Software Development: Maturity Model Roadmap - A Framework

 

Maturity Model Roadmap - A Framework

The Maturity Model is a framework that helps teams assess what capabilities they need to acquire next in order to improve their performance and advance in their Lean-Agile and DevOps practices. It is used in a Continuous Improvement framework to guide the teams in terms of learning, training and application of skills, and to determine when they are ready to move to the next level based on measurements and other criteria.  

 

Category	Novice	Beginner	Intermediate	Advanced	Expert
Deploy	Scripted deploys	Automated app deployments w/ scripted DB and configs	Automated app, config and DB deployments w/ auto discover able dependencies	Infrastructure as code	Zero touch immutable and idempotent deployments
Telemetry	Basic/limited app/platform logs and metrics, manual/ad hoc visualization, alerting, and reporting	Structured logs, RED/USE metrics, and system availability monitoring, basic automated alerting, dashboards, and reports	Centralized, optimized log and metrics collection and storage, targeted alerting, audience-specific visuals and reports	Intelligent aggregation and retention of logs and metrics, lower environment comparative metrics, end-to-end synthetics, unified visualization, alerting and reports	Distributed platform tracing, logs and metrics used for system scaling, and capacity planning, fully automated visualizations, metrics-driven recovery and self-healing
Test	Unit Testing, Mocking	Automated Functional Testing, Service Virtualization	Automated Performance, Load Testing and Code Instrumentation	Test First, Test Data Management	Testing in Production, Synthetic Monitoring
Build	Manual Builds w/ versioned code base	Partially automated builds w/ documented branching strategy	Automated builds run on demand w/ managed artifacts	Automated builds triggered on code commits w/ minimal branching	Zero touch build pipeline w/ Trunk based development
Security	Initiating Security Alignment	Approaching Security Alignment	Achieving Security Alignment	Partnering in Security Alignment	Leadership in Security Alignment
Architecture & Design	Code Quality and Design Patterns	Modular Architecture	Individually Releasable Components	Architectural Integrity (Shifting from Project to Product)	Adapting Architecture and Design
Lean-Agile	Learning Lean-Agile Principles/Practices	Practicing Lean-Agile Principles/Practices	Growing in Lean-Agile Principles/Practices	Performing in Lean-Agile Principles/Practices	High Performing in Lean-Agile Principles/Practices

  *The Lean-Agile Maturity Model leverages commonly-used assessments, primarily from scrum.org. We may pull in and/or pivot to others like SAFe Team Self-Assessment in the future.