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Technical Health Checklist

Most products don’t break in one dramatic failure. They degrade quietly, as missing foundations in testing, release safety, observability, and documentation pile up. The team keeps shipping, but every change gets slower and riskier. By the time the slowdown shows up on the roadmap, the fix is expensive.
 
The Technical Health Checklist is how you find those gaps before they become expensive. Instead of waiting for an audit, a missed deadline, or a failed release to surface the issues, you get a shared, honest view of what’s solid, what’s shaky, and what needs attention now.
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Technical Health Checklist

THC 2.0 is a self-assessment of your product's technical health: 59 questions across six areas — Architecture, Testing, CI/CD, Observability, Data, and Security.Use it to check whether your foundations are strong enough for how you build and scale today — and to spot gaps before they turn into delivery delays, rework, or painful handovers. This is not a rigid audit or documentation for its own sake; it makes technical risk visible so you can act early.When you finish, you receive a personalized PDF report with your score, findings by area, and practical recommendations on what to improve first.

Architecture

Is our architecture approach explicitly defined and documented?

Is our documented architecture pattern consistently followed in the codebase?pattern consistently followed in codebase?

Is our architecture appropriate for our system's scale and complexity?

Is our business logic separated from infrastructure and does it clearly model business concepts?logic is separated from infrastructure and clearly models business concepts?

Do our service boundaries support independent evolution of components?

Are dependencies between our components controlled?

Are our backend services stateless?

Does our architecture support our performance and scalability requirements?

Are our API contracts defined, versioned, and backward compatible?

Are our asynchronous operations idempotent and safe to retry?

Is our external communication resilient (timeouts, retries, fallbacks)?

Is our external communication resilient (timeouts, retries, fallbacks)?

Is our architecture documentation available and maintained?

60 Checks to Assess Your Product

The Technical Health Checklist is a practical self-assessment tool. No consultants, no formal audit, no six-week engagement. You run it internally with your own team.

Each check covers one technical foundation (schema migrations, centralized logging, idempotent retries, and so on) and names the specific risk it mitigates. The built-in dashboard scores your overall maturity, surfaces red flags, and shows which areas to fix first.

Run it once to benchmark your current state. Rerun it every quarter, because technical health drifts as the product, team, and delivery pressure change.

ASSESS YOUR PRODUCT NOW

Architecture

Check whether your system's design still fits its current scale and complexity. Covers architectural consistency, service boundaries, resilience, API contracts, performance, and whether infrastructure cost is proportional to usage.

Testing

Assess whether your test suite actually protects the product from regressions. Covers unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage, environment reproducibility, test reliability, and performance verification.

CI/CD

See how safely and quickly your team can ship changes. Covers automated build and deployment pipelines, failure recovery, release repeatability, branching strategy, and infrastructure as code.

Observability

Find out whether your team can actually see what's happening in production. Covers centralized logging, structured logs, error tracking, metrics, alerting, and whether observability tools are used in practice.

Data

Evaluate whether your data is safely managed and recoverable. Covers schema evolution, data ownership, backup and restore, consistency strategy, and efficient access patterns.

Security

Surface the security foundations every product should have. Covers authentication and authorization, secret management, input validation, dependency scanning, encrypted communication, and audit logging.

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