SAFe DevOps Health Radar Assessment Guide

This document is a translated version of the SAFe DevOps health radar, intended for self‑assessment of an organization’s Release on Demand capabilities. It provides a radar with four main dimensions—Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Release on Demand—each broken down into sub‑dimensions that are rated on a scale from Sit (1‑2) to Fly (9‑10).

Dimension 1: Continuous Exploration focuses on hypothesis formulation, collaboration & research, architecture, and overall integration. It defines how teams translate business ideas into measurable epics, collaborate with customers and IT, adopt a "just enough" architecture, and produce a well‑prioritized feature backlog.

Dimension 2: Continuous Integration covers development practices such as breaking features into stories, applying Test‑Driven Development (TDD), and maintaining a healthy build pipeline. It evaluates the existence and quality of story backlogs, unit testing, code reviews, and build frequency.

Dimension 3: Continuous Deployment addresses the process of moving features to production, using feature toggles, and ensuring deployment verification. It assesses deployment frequency, automation, rollback capabilities, and the use of dark releases.

Dimension 4: Release on Demand examines the ability to decouple release from deployment, employing techniques like feature flags, blue‑green deployments, and canary releases. It evaluates release frequency, coupling with deployment, and customer satisfaction.

The radar also includes business goals related to quality, market response time, stability, measurement, and learning. Each goal is measured across the same rating scale, helping teams understand how well they deliver value, maintain stability, and learn from outcomes.

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Overall, the health radar provides a comprehensive framework for assessing DevOps maturity and identifying improvement areas across development, operations, and business value delivery.