Codebase audit
One to two weeks. What is at risk, what is unknown, and what needs attention now.
For companies with an existing codebase
Take over an existing codebase and keep it moving.
Software you inherited, bought, or built with a team that has since moved on. We read it, stabilize it, restart delivery, and stay accountable for it.
An existing codebase is still a product with users, history, and value. We read what exists before we decide what to repair, modernize, or replace. Most of the time the answer is not a rewrite.
- Sheet
- 06 of 06
- Entry
- read access to the repo and the deploy target
- Output
- written audit, ranked risks, plan
- Typical stack
- anything with a git history
You might be here because.
Start from the constraint you have, not from a solution somebody already picked.
The original team or vendor is gone, and the handover was a zip file.
Builds, deployments, or releases have become unreliable.
Critical bugs and incidents are eating the roadmap.
Documentation is missing and nobody can say who owns what.
Dependencies, performance, or security risks are piling up.
The roadmap has slowed because the system is hard to change.
What the first weeks change.
Drag the divider. Deploys, documentation, tests, dependencies, and ownership are where a takeover starts. An illustration of a typical engagement, not a client's numbers.
Before takeoverAs found
- DeploysBy hand, from one laptop
- DocumentationA Slack thread and a memory
- TestsA few, and they fail
- DependenciesThree major versions behind
- OwnershipNobody
After takeoverOwned
- DeploysFrom main, automated, with rollback
- DocumentationA README that matches the code
- TestsCoverage on the paths that earn money
- DependenciesCurrent, on a schedule
- OwnershipA named team
Drag the divider, or focus it and use the arrow keys.
What we deliver.
What an engagement can include. Scope is agreed in writing before work starts.
- Repository and architecture audit
- Dependency and security review
- Build and deployment recovery
- Critical bug resolution
- Performance investigation
- Documentation recovery
- Test coverage strategy
- Modernization and roadmap plan
- Vendor handover recovery
- Ongoing ownership after stabilization
Ways to engage.
Four shapes the work can take. Most engagements start small and grow into ownership.
Stabilization
Recover builds, deploys, and critical flows, and write down enough to work safely.
Roadmap restart
Move from stable into useful, with a plan that fits the team and the budget.
Takeover and stay
Ongoing ownership once the system has a dependable baseline: maintenance, features, incidents, and releases.
How it runs.
Recorded like a drawing's revisions: what changed, and who signed it.
- A
Understand
Read the product, the architecture, the users, and the business priorities.
- B
Stabilize
Resolve the failures that block work and establish a baseline you can trust.
- C
Ship
Deliver the next valuable work without repeating the patterns that slowed it down.
- D
Stay
Maintain, improve, and support the product as the team accountable for it.
Questions
Before we start.
Practical answers about this kind of engagement.
Yes. A takeover starts with the repository, the deployment path, the current risks, and the business priorities. Perfect documentation is not required. A working login and a willingness to answer questions are.
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