Technical Gap Analysis
A gap analysis answers a specific question: given where you are today and where you need to be, what is in the way? We use this engagement to make the distance between current state and target state concrete, prioritized, and actionable — whether the gap is in your codebase, your infrastructure, your team capability, your process maturity, or a combination of all four.
Capabilities
What gap analysis covers
Baseline across dimensions
Technical Maturity Assessment
Assessing where your engineering organization sits across the dimensions that matter for scale: deployment automation, observability, testing coverage, security posture, documentation quality, and incident response readiness. The assessment identifies where investment will have the highest return.
SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001
Compliance Readiness Gap Analysis
Mapping the distance between your current technical and process controls and the requirements of a specific compliance framework. Compliance readiness audits tell you exactly what needs to change before certification — the audit report after you failed to prepare is not the time to find this out.
Before the move
Migration Readiness Assessment
For teams planning a significant migration — cloud provider, database platform, monolith to services — an assessment of the current state against the requirements of the target state. What dependencies need to be resolved, what data transformations are required, and what team capabilities need to be in place before the migration begins.
Engineering process gaps
Process Maturity Review
Reviewing engineering process maturity: how work is planned, how code is reviewed, how deployments are managed, how incidents are handled, and how technical decisions are made and documented. Process gaps produce engineering quality problems that accumulate over time.
Where you are exposed
Security Gap Assessment
Mapping the gap between your current security posture and the controls appropriate for your risk profile and regulatory context. The security gap analysis identifies the specific controls that are absent and prioritizes them by the risk they expose.
Skills and capacity
Team Capability Gap Analysis
Evaluating the gap between the technical capabilities your current team has and the capabilities the planned work requires. This applies to teams planning a major technology change, teams entering a new product area, or organizations evaluating whether to hire, train, or contract for specific skills.
Our approach
Current state must be documented honestly
A gap analysis built on an optimistic view of current state will produce a roadmap that underestimates the work required. We document what actually exists — the code that is actually in production, the processes that teams actually follow, the documentation that actually exists — rather than the idealized version.
Target state must be specific
A target state defined as 'best practices' or 'industry standard' is not specific enough to plan against. We work with stakeholders to define the target state in concrete terms: specific compliance requirements, specific performance thresholds, specific capability levels. Vague targets produce vague gap analyses.
Gaps are sequenced by dependency and impact
Not all gaps can be closed in parallel, and not all gaps have equal impact. Some gaps block others; some have dramatically higher business impact per unit of effort. The roadmap sequences gap remediation to respect dependencies, maximize early impact, and stay within the constraints of available time and team capacity.
Effort estimates are ranges, not commitments
A gap analysis that produces point estimates for remediation effort creates false precision. We provide effort ranges based on the information available at the time of the analysis, with explicit assumptions. Estimates narrow as design decisions are made and unknowns are resolved.
All engineering work is done by US-based engineers. We do not offshore any development or architecture work.
Part of our Consulting practice
FAQ
Common questions
Virginia · United States
Know where you are. Know what's between you and where you need to be.
If your organization is preparing for a major change and needs a clear picture of the current state and what it will take to get to the target, reach out and we will scope a gap analysis.