CI/CD maturity model

	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	x	Base	Beginner	Intermediate	Advance	Expert
2	Culture and Organization	Prioritized work	One backlog per team	Extended team collaboration	Dedicated tools team	Cross functional teams
3		Defined and documented process	Share the pain	Component ownership	Team resposible all the way to prod	No rollbacks (always roll forward)
4		Frequent commits	Stable teams	Act on metrics	Deploy disconnected from Release
5			Adopt basic Agile methods	Remove boundary dev & ops	Continous improvement (Kaizen)
6			Remove boundary dev&test	Common pricess for all changes
7				Decentrilize decissions
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9	Design & Architecture	Consolidated platform & technology	Organize system into modules	No (or minimal) branching	Full component based architecture	Infrastructure as code
10			API management	Branch by abstraction	Push business metrics
11			Library management	Configuration as code
12			Version control DB changes	Feature hiding
13				Making compoments out of modules
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15	Build & Deploy	Versioned code base	Polling builds	Auto triggered build (commit hooks)	Zero downtime deployments	Build bakery (IaC is part of CD process)
16		Scripted builds	Builds are stored	Autimated tag & versioning	Multiple build machines	Zero touch continuous deployments
17		Basic scheduled builds (CI)	Manual tag & versioning	Build once deploy anywhere	Full automatic DB deploys
18		Dedicated build server	First step forwards standardized deploys	Automated bulk of DB changes
19		Documented manual deploy		Basic pipeline with deploy to prod
20		Some deployment script exists		Scripted config changes (app server)
21				Standard process for all environments
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23	Test & Verification	Automatic unit tests	Automatic integration tests	Automatic component tests (isolated)	Full automatic acceptance tests	Verify expected business value
24		Separate test environment		Some automatic acceptance tests	Automatic performance tests
25		"code freeze"			Automatic security tests
26					Risk based manual testing
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29	Information & Reporting	Baseline process metrics	Measure the process	Common information model	Graphing as a service	Dynamic graphing and dashboards
30		Manual reporting	Static code analysis	Traceability built into pipeline	Dynamic test coverage analysis	Cross silo analysis
31			Scheduled quality reports	Report history is available	Report trend analysis
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