thisissoftware

Technical & product assessments

Uncover root causesto scale with confidence.

We dive in to rapidly understand your unique infrastructure, software systems, and product, then identify key areas for improvement.

Scalable infrastructure

Infrastructure & Security Assessment

As your company and systems grow, scaling challenges and risk management are critical to manage. Are you paying for cloud resources you're not actually using? Will your system stay responsive if you hit 10x current user volume? How confident are you that data practices meet compliance requirements?

Spot gaps so they can be addressed as you plan for the future. We focus on several key areas to identify potential improvements:

  • evaluate scalability and ability to maintain high uptime/performance as user base grows
  • assess security risks, ensure up-to-date data storage/practices, and API keys/secrets managed correctly
  • right-size the cloud infrastructure of the business to ensure no dollars are wasted on over-engineering
  • evaluate deployment pipelines and infrastructure automation for reliability and efficiency
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Maintainable systems

Software Systems Assessment

We help teams keep their codebases and systems maintainable and scalable — even as they grow and evolve. Can current architecture handle planned growth? Are you building technical debt faster than you can pay it down? How much time are you wasting on manual deployment processes?

Understand opportunities to extend and scale systems with modern technology, and helping you identify where to get started:

  • determine if system architecture and code design allow easy maintenance by skilled developers in relevant tech stacks
  • identify operational risks, such as system's ability to handle increased loads without incurring high costs or failing
  • examine processes for getting features into production, with the goal to minimize waste and use automation whenever possible
  • evaluate quality of documentation, test suites, and automation to ensure new developers can quickly and confidently make changes
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Product operating model

Product Assessment

Product organizations frequently face friction from unclear priorities, misaligned teams, and ineffective processes across strategy, discovery, delivery, and culture. Are you building features that actually move business metrics that matter? How do you decide what to build next when everything feels urgent?

Receive a realistic view of the current product operating model challenges and opportunities:

  • evaluate product vision, strategic alignment with business goals, and prioritization frameworks to create an actionable, aligned roadmap
  • analyze user research, market analysis, and validation processes to prioritize opportunities that significantly improve product outcomes
  • examine development processes, cycles, and metrics for systemic and cultural friction points, and align on actions to boost effectiveness
  • assess team collaboration, communication, and skill sets to provide clear recommendations that directly address the most impactful gaps
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Alex Vasylchenko
Alex Vasylchenko
Founder, This Is Software

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