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Technology decision risk check

How much of your technology are you taking on trust?

Twelve questions on delivery, ownership, suppliers, cost, resilience, security, roadmap, scale, data and leadership. You get the read on this page as soon as you finish. No account, no email required, nothing saved unless you ask for the written version.

It takes about five minutes. Answer as things actually are rather than as they are meant to be, or the result is not worth having.

The questions

  1. 1.Can the leadership team verify delivery progress without relying on the people building it?

    Delivery

  2. 2.Who owns architecture decisions?

    Ownership

  3. 3.If an agency or outsourced team told you a delay was unavoidable, who could test it?

    Suppliers

  4. 4.Is technology spend tied to business outcomes you could name?

    Cost

  5. 5.What happens if your most important engineer leaves tomorrow?

    Resilience

  6. 6.Who is accountable for security risk, by name?

    Security

  7. 7.Can the board see why the roadmap is in the order it is in?

    Roadmap

  8. 8.Has the platform been tested at the scale you are forecasting?

    Scalability

  9. 9.Do you know where your data sits and who legally controls it?

    Data

  10. 10.Is anyone making genuine CTO-level trade-offs for the business?

    Leadership

  11. 11.If an investor ran technical diligence next month, what would they find?

    Investor scrutiny

  12. 12.How does technology risk reach the board?

    Board assurance

0 of 12 answered.