Delivery Capability Assessment
Is your delivery operating model fit for what you're trying to achieve?
An honest, outside-in view of how your delivery is performing, and a prioritised plan for what to fix first.
What it is
You're spending real money on digital delivery — internal teams, suppliers, or both — but the output isn't matching the investment. Releases are slow, defect rates are high, governance feels heavy but isn't catching the issues, or teams are shipping features that don't move the outcomes that matter. We give you an independent, honest read on what's working, what isn't, and what to fix first.
Who it's for
CTOs, CDOs, Heads of Delivery and Programme Directors running significant in-house or multi-supplier delivery, who want a credible external view before committing to change.
What we look at
Over four to six weeks we assess current state across delivery, engineering, quality and governance, then measure it against where you need to be:
How delivery is set up:
Team structure, roles, ways of working.
Engineering and quality:
Automation, CI/CD, testing, defect management.
Governance:
Whether it's catching the right things or just adding weight.
Outcomes:
Whether the work is moving the things that matter.
What you walk away with
- A posture assessment across the five areas, with findings rated by risk
- A gap analysis showing the risk each gap creates
- Prioritised recommendations, with indicative effort
- An honest platform recommendation — including where Cloudflare is the right answer and where it isn't
- Fixed-scope, fixed-price, and yours to keep
Why CDS
Thirty years of delivery in environments where failure isn't an option — from the Government Service Standard to commercial agile, from in-house teams to multi-supplier national programmes.
We assess against the standards we hold ourselves to: automation-first, quality built in rather than bolted on, shift-left as a default.
We've also been the team called in to rescue delivery when it's failing —88 ePIMS, a failing government service brought back and passed against the Service Standard, is the headline.
And there's no built-in upsell: the assessment doesn't exist to sell you a platform.
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