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Technology Assessment
Gauge your readiness to adopt new technologies.
Emerging technologies are dramatically shifting the business landscape. But are you in a position to leverage them? It’s a question that’s driving a growing number of organizations to consult with About Objects.
Equipped with a range of client experience, our most-senior team members will identify risks and opportunities across your strategy, methodologies, architecture, development, and operational disciplines.
A clear picture in just six weeks.
To know where you stand, we first need to understand your specific business needs, your culture, and strategic goals. Through a combination of onsite and remote services, we will assess practice areas, offer recommendations, and deliver an actionable report from scratch—all within six business weeks.
Prior to our onsite assessment, we will tap your business and technology stakeholders to identify interviewees and organize schedules.
Week 1: Discovery
Kickoff begins by gathering all participants and outlining the activities, goals, and project agenda. We then interview selected members of your team to uncover:
- Business Strategy – Organizational vision, goals, target audience, competitive landscape, and success factors
- IT Strategy – Existing systems, goals, regulations, and constraints
- Process & Methodology – Development lifecycle and methodology, project management; requirements, development, testing, and deployment processes, configuration, and change management
- Architecture – Goals, constraints, security, and legacy system integration
- Development – Application, backend integration, and system design, development tools, performance tuning, and memory management, developer testing
- QA – Test team strategies, design, tools, automation, and metrics
Weeks 2 & 3: In-Depth Analysis
We continue with a thorough review of high-risk and critical areas, including tools, documents, code, and other materials. We then schedule follow-up meetings to collect, review, and discuss actual artifacts.
Weeks 4 & 5: Formalize Findings
Our insights are organized into a comprehensive report, highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement against industry standards.
Week 6: Share Results
Delivered onsite, we share our findings and detail next steps with key project stakeholders.
Come away with a complete technology health report.
And a clear path forward.
Once our assessment is complete, you will receive a comprehensive Operational Technology Health Report highlighting areas of low, moderate, and high risk. Included are summaries for each operational area with observations on where you’re performing optimally as well as recommendations for enhancements.
For your team, it’s the clarity you need to make informed technology decisions, ones that will impact your business for years to come.
Process Overview:
- Pre-visit consultation and surveys
- Up to two weeks of onsite evaluation, interviewing stakeholders on strategy, process and methodology, architecture, development, and QA
- Onsite evaluation, internal research, and Readiness Report development
- Review key findings and recommendations
Transfer knowledge to your IT and plan next steps
Areas of Focus:
- Business Strategy
- IT Strategy
- Process & Methodology
- Architecture
- Software Development
- Software Quality Assurance
Takeaways
- Clear and prioritized understanding of current risks/vulnerabilities
- Insight into where you’re performing and underperforming
- Informed path forward for onboarding new technology platforms
- Specific insight into which technologies to adopt to advance your mission
Ready to begin?
Reach out to our team to schedule a comprehensive technology assessment.