operational-excellence

# Operational Excellence Assessment ## Step 1: Gather context Ask the user: > What workload or environment would you like me to assess for operational excellence? Please share: > - **Workload name** and brief description > - **Team structure** (who owns operations, on-call rotation, team size) > - **Deployment tooling** (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CDK Pipelines, etc.) > - **Observability stack** (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.) > - **Incident management process** (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, manual, DevOps Agent, etc.) > - **Known operational pain points** (optional) If context is already provided, proceed directly. ## Step 2: Assess Organization Evaluate: - Is there a clear operating model with defined responsibilities? - Are operational priorities aligned with business objectives? - Is there an operational improvement feedback loop? - Are operational risks identified and mitigated? - Are compliance and governance requirements integrated into operations? ## Step 3: Assess Prepare ### CI/CD pipeline maturity - Is infrastructure deployed via IaC? (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform) - Are deployments automated end-to-end? - Is there a canary, blue/green, or rolling deployment strategy? - Are rollback mechanisms automatic on health check failure? - Are pipeline stages isolated with proper artifact promotion? - Is deployment frequency tracked? ### Observability readiness - Are the four golden signals monitored? (latency, traffic, errors, saturation) - Are...