Engineering Practices

The Do Diligence® Engineering Practices Review identifies, documents, and rates the strengths and challenges of the subject company’s Engineering Methodology and up to thirteen individual practices that comprise the Subject’s methodology.   

Do Diligence® rates a company’s Engineering Methodology and individual practices according to the Do Diligence® Engineering Practices Methodology and compares its findings to the practices of other companies Do Diligence® has evaluated. This methodology focuses on the following important attributes:

• Requirements 
• Process Effectiveness
• Automation
• Results 
• Maturity

As seen in the diagram above, our Methodology incorporates the following individual activities: 

• Understand Client Plans*
• Review Subject Software Domain*
• Analyze Do Diligence® Engineering Practices Questionnaire Responses 
• Evaluate Engineering Practices documentation 
• Interview Management and Staff*
• Develop Analysis*
• Validate with Subject Management*

* Also part of the Management and Team Review, which is commonly conducted with the Engineering Practices Evaluation

Engineering Practices Evaluated

We evaluate the Subject’s Engineering Methodology and up to thirteen practices. The company’s methodology and our Client’s requirements dictate which of the following we incorporate into our assessment. 

• Change Management
• Customer Support
• Design
• Development Standards
• Developer Testing
• Development Operations (DevOps)
• Development Security Operations (DevSecOps)
• Problem Management
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Release Management
• Requirements Management
• Software Configuration Management