For engineering leaders
Where is your delivery stuck?
Follow the work from setup to operations. Hover on each diamond and check if your team feels the friction.
25 common pain points
Every place where delivery gets stuck
01 Set up & develop
- Slow onboardingOnboarding waits for access, tools, or environments.
- Setup failuresLocal setup and dependency installation fail.
- Outdated documentationDocumentation is duplicated, missing or outdated.
- Unclear ownersTeams repeat work or wait for unclear owners (silos).
- Unclear requirementsRequirements or acceptance criteria remain unclear.
02 Build & validate
- Review & merge waitsLarge changes wait for review or conflict during merge.
- CI queuesCI jobs queue for runners or shared resources.
- Slow feedbackBuilds, dependency downloads, or tests take too long.
- Unreliable testsUnreliable tests require retries and investigation.
- Waiting for environmentsTeams wait for test environments or suitable data.
- Unowned failuresFailures return late or lack a clear owner.
- Untested behaviourChecks pass while important behaviour remains untested.
03 Deploy & release
- Approval queuesManual deployment steps or approval queues hold a release.
- Coupled releasesTeams must coordinate tightly coupled releases.
- Configuration driftConfiguration drift or migrations block rollout.
- Late security findingsSecurity findings arrive too late for timely action.
- Missing recovery planRollout checks or a recovery plan are missing.
- Release windowsDistribution, certification, or release windows add waits.
04 Operate & learn
- Late user impactTeams detect user impact too late.
- Alert noiseAlert noise slows diagnosis.
- Unclear responseService ownership or the response path is unclear.
- Slow recoveryRecovery steps are slow or have not been rehearsed.
- Repeated incidentsRepeated incidents and rework consume delivery time.
- Lost feedbackUser feedback or follow-up actions fail to reach the team.
- Capacity & wasteResource saturation or waste limits available capacity.
Across every stage
The foundations travel with the work.
Quality, collaboration and security support the whole delivery flow.