Pre-Deployment Change Readiness & Risk Assessment
Assesses organizational and technical readiness for infrastructure, application, or data migrations by flagging dependency risks, evaluating rollback preparedness, and measuring stakeholder confidence before go/no-go decisions.
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What type of change or migration is this assessment primarily about?
- Infrastructure migration
- Application upgrade or replatform
- Data migration
- Cloud adoption
- Security or compliance change
- Process or tooling change
- Other (please specify)
<p>How ready is the <strong>infrastructure/environment</strong> for this change?</p>
If this change were executed within the next 30 days, how would you rate the overall risk?
What is the preferred cutover window for this change?
- Business hours
- After hours (weekday)
- Weekend
- Blue-green or zero-downtime deployment
- Other (please specify)
<p>How thorough is <strong>functional testing</strong> coverage for this change?</p>
We'd like to explore your perspective on this migration's readiness in a bit more depth. An AI moderator will ask you a couple of follow-up questions based on your earlier responses.
Based on your responses, is there anything else we should consider before the go/no-go decision?
What is your primary role?
- Software engineer
- SRE/Operations
- Security/Compliance
- Data/Analytics
- Product or Project management
- QA/Testing
- Support/Customer success
- Other (please specify)
Thank you for completing this assessment. Your responses will be combined with those of other stakeholders to inform the go/no-go decision. If you have urgent concerns not captured here, please contact the project lead directly.
How clearly defined are the scope and success criteria for this change?
<p>How ready is the <strong>application/code</strong> for this change?</p>
Please describe the top risks for this change and the conditions most likely to trigger them.
If downtime is expected, what is the estimated total planned downtime?
- No downtime expected
- 1–15 minutes
- 16–60 minutes
- 1–4 hours
- More than 4 hours
- Unknown
<p>How thorough is <strong>performance/load testing</strong> coverage for this change?</p>
Which team or function are you representing in this assessment?
- Platform/Infrastructure
- Application team
- Data/ML
- Security
- Networking
- Compliance/Privacy
- Customer-facing operations
- Other (please specify)
<p>How ready is the <strong>data/schema layer</strong> for this change?</p>
Is a rollback or restore plan currently available and tested?
- Yes, tested end-to-end
- Yes, tested partially
- Draft only
- No
- Unknown
<p>How thorough is <strong>security testing</strong> coverage for this change?</p>
How many similar changes have you participated in over the past 2 years?
- None
- 1–2
- 3–5
- 6–10
- 11+
<p>How ready are <strong>security and compliance controls</strong> for this change?</p>
What specific prerequisites must be in place to make a rollback viable?
<p>How thorough is <strong>rollback/recovery testing</strong> coverage for this change?</p>
<p>How ready is <strong>monitoring and observability</strong> for this change?</p>
<p>How thorough is <strong>monitoring and alerting verification</strong> for this change?</p>
<p>How ready is <strong>documentation and runbooks</strong> for this change?</p>
Are clear go/no-go criteria defined for this change?
- Yes, documented and agreed upon
- Partially defined
- No
- Unknown
How would you rate the overall level of dependency risk for this change?
How confident are you that this change can be executed safely and on schedule?
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