7 Building Blocks, One Clear Picture
Each building block provides a distinct perspective on your software — together, they form a well-founded overall assessment.
Business Context
The foundation: Analyze and prioritize business requirements.
The business context significantly shapes the architecture and technology decisions of your software. Together with your relevant stakeholders (CEO, Sales Manager, Product Owner), we analyze this framework to create optimal decision-making foundations. Using ISO 25010 , the most important quality requirements for your software are determined, and based on this, priorities for all further analyses are established.
Technology Overview
Create transparency: Systematically capture technologies and their areas of application.
Using the Tech Stack Canvas , your entire technology stack is systematically documented. This transparency enables you to specifically identify strengths and detect potential weaknesses in performance, security, or scalability early on. You get a complete picture of your technological landscape.
Architecture Workshop
Make architecture visible: Model structure, modules, and interactions together.
Comprehensive understanding of your software architecture requires examining all module boundaries, interactions, and integrations from various perspectives. With the development team, these elements are systematically modeled according to the established arc42 format . You receive a clear visualization of the static and dynamic components of your software, which also provides valuable benefit for future decisions.
Expert Interviews
Gather perspectives: Understand the knowledge, goals, and challenges of key people.
Through targeted interviews with key people from management, development, and support, the organizational maturity level is determined. This gives you valuable perspectives that purely technical analyses cannot provide. And you recognize where organizational improvements will have the greatest impact.
Code Review
Examine details: Analyze quality and implementation of core concepts in the code.
After gaining a complete understanding of the concepts, the software is examined in detail. Special attention is paid to the implementation of core quality characteristics. Aspects such as module distribution, build tools, CI/CD pipeline, database schema, dependencies, code quality, documentation, and API maturity are analyzed. You receive clear identification of strengths and improvement potential in your code.
Final Report
Everything documented: A clear summary with risk analysis and action recommendations.
All findings are summarized in a clearly structured report. Each identified deficiency receives a concrete risk assessment and practical action recommendations. The report is systematically divided into organizational, personnel, infrastructural, architectural, and implementation-related aspects. You get a structured document that makes complex relationships understandable and serves as a solid roadmap for improvements.
Implementation
From analysis to practice: Support in implementing the improvements.
The final report is just the beginning. Upon request, you receive support in the practical implementation of the recommended measures. From versioning strategies to deployment automation to test coverage. You benefit from a flexible architecture adapted to your business needs that not only works today but is also equipped for future growth.