CI/CD Strategy & Review
A review of how you branch, build, and release — and a concrete plan to make shipping calmer.
Advise
Sometimes the tooling is fine and the problem is the workflow: long-lived branches, painful merges, releases that need a war room. This is a focused audit of your delivery process with a written plan you can act on with or without me.
- Review of branching model, merge cadence, and environment topology
- Assessment of pipeline speed, reliability, and test signal
- Release-process walkthrough: how a change reaches production and what can go wrong
- A prioritised, effort-estimated improvement plan (quick wins first)
- Reference examples and templates for the recommended changes
- A follow-up call once you have had time to digest it
What I actually look at
How long branches live before merging. How often environments drift. What breaks a build and how quickly people know. Whether a rollback is a button or a firefight. Where manual steps hide between 'merged' and 'live'.
What you get
A document — not a slide deck — describing the current state plainly, the target state, and an ordered list of changes with rough effort for each. Quick wins are separated from the structural work so you can start Monday.
The ideology, briefly
Small changes, merged often, behind flags when risky. One codebase that builds every environment. The pipeline is the only path to production. Rollback is always available. Nothing here is novel — but writing it down and closing the gaps is where the value is.
FAQ
Have a project in mind?
Tell me what you are building. You get a scoping call and a fixed quote — no obligation.