How do your software development teams compare to others? Use this tool to benchmark your teams against peers and build a roadmap to a world-class software engineering organization.
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Software Engineering Leader Score
Benchmark key functional processes and activities
Drive efficiency on these top software development objectives
Creation of a world-class software engineering organization
Assess software engineering leadership’s role in developing workforce strategy, structuring and resourcing teams, developing and managing talent, and building and sustaining team culture.
Delivery of digital products and experiences
Understand your effectiveness in designing portfolios, developing product visions and roadmaps, measuring outcomes and building relationships.
Governance of delivery and execution processes
Evaluate your processes for managing work, defining architectures, and designing and creating software.
Management of a software delivery pipeline
Assess your testing and quality practices, delivery of secure apps and infrastructure, automation of build/configure/deploy processes and enablement of data-driven decisions.
Address your mission-critical priorities
Strategic planning
Understand how well your practice is performing in its current state.
Resource allocation
Ensure strategy and resources align with market opportunities and business needs.
Functional transformation
Support short- and long-term planning by clearly identifying the platforms, technologies, and roles your software engineering teams need.
Compare your current and desired state
Maturity
Measured on a scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high), maturity measures how advanced an activity is, relative to our best-in-class software engineering organizations.
Importance
Measured on a scale from 1 (unimportant) to 5 (critical), based on participants’ input, importance measures how important each activity is for the overall effectiveness of software engineering in terms of meeting its objectives.
Prioritization
The priority index (PI) identifies the activities that should be prioritized to improve maturity. It's calculated as follows: PI = (Importance minus Maturity) x Importance. A higher PI signals a greater priority for improvement.
Creating a High-Quality Developer Experience at Hargreaves Lansdown
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