Benchmark Your Engineering Team Against Hundreds of Others
Summary: Martin Reynolds discusses the benefits of the EngineeringX maturity assessment for engineering leaders. This tool offers a benchmark by comparing an organization's performance with hundreds of other engineering teams, providing insights into areas such as strategy, developer experience, software delivery, reliability, and security. By starting with a short baseline assessment, leaders receive recommendations and a score compared to peers, which can be periodically reassessed to track progress. The results can assist in strategic planning and justify changes within the team or to leadership.
Most engineering leaders have a gut sense of how their org is doing, but it's a lot harder to know how that stacks up against everyone else making the same calls. The maturity assessment gives EngineeringX members that comparison: a benchmark of your team against hundreds of other engineering organizations, plus recommendations based on where you actually land.
Start with a short baseline assessment — three to five minutes on your current challenges and goals. From there, it'll flag which sub-assessment to focus on first, and you can go deeper on the rest whenever you want.
Here's what the sub-assessments cover:
Strategy & Flow Management: Planning, prioritization, and delivery visibility.
Developer Experience & Engineering Productivity: Developer workflows and platform experience.
Software Delivery & Release Operations: CI/CD, deployment, and release maturity.
Reliability, Operations & Incident Response: Reliability, observability, and incidents.
Governance, Security & AI Control: Security, compliance, and AI governance.
Once you've finished one, you'll get a score stacked against other leaders, along with recommendations for closing whatever gaps show up. It's worth retaking every few months, since orgs are moving fast right now and this is one way to see how yours is keeping up. And the results are easy to hand to your own team or leadership if you want to make a case for something.
Start the assessment: here
