Enterprise SKILup Assessment
Baseline your DevOps skills. Upskill your teams. Accelerate your DevOps Journey.
Assessments for Organizations
Enterprises need an accurate gauge of DevOps capabilities to improve organizational performance. Still, for organizations to fully understand their capabilities, they need to know their baseline DevOps state.
The Enterprise SKILup Assessment enables organizations to self-assess their current capabilities, measure and accelerate continuous improvement as the DevOps journey moves forward.
Assessments are critically important for any organization implementing DevOps practices as they will provide visibility into the current DevOps state.
The Enterprise SKILup Assessment allows teams to:
- Compare capabilities
- Identify key strengths and improvement opportunities
- Highlight what good looks like for an organization
- Turn local discoveries into global improvements.
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Why Every DevOps Initiative Should Start with a Capability Assessment
Helen Beal explains why in the TechBeacon article…
The adoption of DevOps practices is proceeding apace. Organizations are focused on how to implement DevOps capabilities across teams and how to scale DevOps across the enterprise. But an important aspect to any scaled transformation journey is assessing a team’s or organization’s capabilities along the way. Read more.
The Five Key DevOps Dimensions
The Enterprise SKILup Assessment is designed to help organizations that want to baseline the current DevOps state for the organization as a whole. The Assessment provides insights into five (5) key areas that enable teams to measure and accelerate continuous improvement throughout the DevOps journey.
The five DevOps dimensions are:
The Human Aspects

Process and Frameworks

Functional Composition

Intelligent Automation

Technology Ecosystems

Human Aspects
Focus on culture, psychological safety, dynamic learning, transformational leadership, The Three Ways, diversity, and inclusion.
Process and Frameworks
Focus on culture, psychological safety, dynamic learning, transformational leadership, The Three Ways, diversity, and inclusion.
Functional Composition
Focus on culture, psychological safety, dynamic learning, transformational leadership, The Three Ways, diversity, and inclusion.
Intelligent Automation
Focus on artifact and source control, CI/CD, environment management, continuous compliance, observability, AIOps and Value Stream Management.
Technology Ecosystems
Focus on elastic infrastructure, containers, microservices, APIs, serverless, DevOps toolchains, open and inner-source, and secrets management.
Assessment Roadmap
- 1. Vision Workshop
- 2. Discovery
- 3. Setup
- 4. Enablement Briefing
- 5. Assessment Launch
- 6. Data Analysis
- 7. Findings Workshops
- 8. Improvement Experiments
- 9. Future Plans
Set the long term vision, goals and a communication plan for the data collection and findings.
Identify the number of business units/teams, segments, size, etc.
Determine open and close, the desired look and feel, messaging, reporting access
Session with key participants who will support and enable individuals to complete the survey
Promote and emphasize the importance of the assessment for all participants,
Work with key individuals to review and analyze the data to draw insights.
Share the findings from the assessment and provide recommendations and review recommended experiments.
Undertakes experiments in line with the findings to accelerate the DevOps journey.
Plan for reassessment within six months to review improvements made.
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Understand the SKILup Assessment delivery journey (this is an example, timelines may vary).
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