Technical Agility

Assessment Template Details

Lean Agile Intelligence

Technical Agility

This template focuses on the cutting-edge technical practices that enable teams to build quality into their application, making it more reliable. Influenced by many Agile technical thought leaders, this template provides teams with an opportunity to measure and improve on technical practices such as Pair Programming, TDD, Safe DevOps, and BDD assessment.

Ideal For

Any Agile Team focused on advancing its technical practices.

References

Works of thought leaders that influenced the Growth Criteria, assigned Stage, and associated Business Outcomes.

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Questions by Dimension

13 total questions

Quality

• Agile Architecture
• DevOps Build Cycle
• DevOps Deploy
• DevOps Monitoring
• DevOps Release
• DevOps Reporting
• DevOps Testing
• Health of Codebase
• Security Management
• Team Collective Code Ownership
• Team Definition of Done
• Team Focus on Quality
• Team Pair Programming

Question Growth Criteria Example

Agile Architecture

Assesses codebase complexity and ability to easily change it.

Starting (0)

There is lack of ability to easily change the codebase because of the complexity embedded

Developing (1)

A holistic technology vision exists for the product

The product is organized into modules

The product leverages libraries

Emerging (2)

The product contains components with well-defined APIs and/or messages/events

No or minimal branching for the product

The Product's entire configuration is in source code (i.e., configuration as code)

Adapting (3)

The product has fine-grained domain-based services for critical business needs

The architecture of the product is not dependent on the user interface

The product utilizes infrastructure as code

Optimizing (4)

The business rules of the products can be tested independently of UI, database, or any other external elements