PRISM Quick Assessment

Rate your platform in 5 minutes.

Answer 4 questions per dimension. Get a quick snapshot of your platform maturity.

Platform Architecture

Assess whether the platform architecture supports current and future business growth.

Is your architecture well-documented and understood by the engineering team?

Are platform boundaries clear between teams and services?

Can the current architecture support your next growth stage?

Do architecture decisions consider business trade-offs?

Assess whether customers can depend on the platform and whether reliability risk is visible and managed.

Do you have SLOs or reliability targets?

Is incident response repeatable and not dependent on heroes?

Is observability useful for diagnosing production issues?

Can your team recover from failures without manual intervention?

Assess whether cloud spend is aligned with business value and engineering accountability.

Do teams understand their cloud cost ownership?

Is cloud spend connected to business value?

Do you have governance around workload provisioning?

Can you explain your cloud cost trends to leadership?

Assess whether the platform can scale without becoming fragile, expensive, or operationally complex.

Can your platform handle 3–5x current load without major changes?

Are data processing pipelines designed for growth?

Do scaling concerns appear before customer growth?

Is performance testing part of your delivery process?

Assess whether ownership, governance, standards, and engineering practices can sustain growth.

Are platform responsibilities clearly owned?

Do teams operate with consistent standards?

Is provisioning self-service for engineering teams?

Does the platform team reduce cognitive load across engineering?