Development Process Consulting

When releases slip, the same bug comes back twice, or only one developer knows how to deploy, the path a change takes from ticket to production is one place to look. Development process consulting reviews that path and changes the parts that are causing trouble.

A review can start by walking one recent change from request to release and noting where it waited and who touched it. Examples of what that walk-through can turn up:

• Code merged without review because the main branch accepts direct pushes
• Builds that work on one laptop but not elsewhere, which a scripted build on each pull request can address
• Manual deployments, which a repeatable pipeline with a written rollback step can replace
• Database changes applied by hand in production instead of as versioned scripts
• Tests that exist but are not run before a merge

To see whether a change helped, the team can track software delivery metrics from Google's DORA research program. Its metrics guide (last updated January 2026) lists five: change lead time, deployment frequency, failed deployment recovery time, change fail rate and deployment rework rate. Recording them before and after a process change gives the team numbers to compare.

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