Process
IT process audit and fractional CTO
You have developers but no predictability: deadlines slip, releases break production, nobody knows what the team is doing. We diagnose the process, deliver a 90-day plan and can take over the management.
Interviews, metrics, observing real releases.
Concrete changes with owners and success criteria.
Typical result after the first quarter.
A technical director part-time, without hiring.
Who needs it
When the problem is not the people but how their work is organised.
A business without a CTO
There is a team or a vendor, but nobody to evaluate them and set goals.
A growing team
Five people worked well, fifteen work worse. You need process, not heroics.
Chronic delays
Estimates miss reality, releases slip, bugs come back.
Before scaling
You plan to double the team or enter a new market without falling apart.
What we look at
Process, not people
We assess the system: how work gets in, how it reaches production, what happens when it breaks.
Delivery
Planning, estimation, code review, testing, release cycle, frequency and stability.
Operations
Incidents, monitoring, on-call, postmortems, SLAs and whether they hold.
Team
Roles and ownership, bus factor, onboarding, load, reasons people leave.
Management
Prioritisation, link to business goals, budget, metrics, reporting.
What you get
A plan you can execute without us, or with us.
- Diagnosis with numbers: where time and money leak
- 90-day plan: changes, owners, success criteria
- Metric set: from release frequency to recovery time
- Templates: postmortem, release checklist, role descriptions
- Team composition and hiring recommendations
- Monthly progress review as ongoing support
How it works
- 130 minutes
Call
The pain from the business side and the engineering side.
- 21 week
Interviews and data
Team conversations, task tracker, release and incident history.
- 31 week
Observation
We sit in on planning, review and a release.
- 42–3 days
Plan and defence
We present the diagnosis and plan to management and the team.
Formats and pricing
Fixed-price diagnosis, subscription support.
Diagnosis
fixedTeam up to 30
- Interviews and metrics
- Diagnosis and 90-day plan
- Process templates
- 2 weeks
Support
monthlyExecuting the plan
- Everything in Diagnosis
- Weekly meetings with leads
- Monthly report to management
- 3 months minimum
Fractional CTO
monthlyPart-time technical director
- Managing team and vendors
- Technical strategy and budget
- Hiring and assessment
- Management meetings
A fractional CTO does not replace an engineering manager inside the team; it gives the business a director-level technical partner without a full-time salary.
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