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Automation maturity models love to hand you a level. Level 2. Level 3. Congratulations, you've arrived. But here's the thing I keep seeing on the grou...
Automation maturity isn't a one-way march from chaos to rigidity. It's a balancing act between two poles: central control and team autonomy. Get it wr...
You've seen it happen. A team nails a Level 3 on every dimension of the maturity model. Process compliance hits 95%. Audits pass with flags flying. Bu...
We were three weeks from a major release when the team split in two. Half wanted to bump our automation maturity score. The other half wanted to fix t...
You're looking at a dashboard that tells you everything about nothing. Or a deep-dive report that tells you everything about one thing—and nothing abo...
You spend months standardizing every deployment pipeline. The automation maturity score goes up. Your team's morale goes down. Something's wrong. Matu...
You are an automation lead at a company with 500 employees. Your board wants 'automation maturity' by Q4—but no one agrees if that means nailing seque...
The automa maturity score looked great. Red turned amber, amber turned green. The board was happy. But under that dashboard, the pipeline core was cra...
In a recent DevOps retrospective, the crew celebrated hitting 98% pipeline adoption — a key maturity metric. But when we looked at lead slot and deplo...
You have three weeks and one analyst. Do you map every stage of a lone procurement sequence down to the keystroke, or do you skim across your top five...
The dashboard glows green. Deployment frequency is up 40% this quarter. Lead time is down to under an hour. The team celebrates. Then, at 3 AM, produc...
Your automation maturity score says you are at Level 4. Congratulations? The dashboard glows green. The C-suite nods. But on the ground, your release ...