FDLC maturity / 11
How mature is your software factory?
Maturity is the quality of your operating system for autonomous work: intent, authority, execution, verification, oversight, observability, reuse, and learning.
The maturity journey
Capability must be earned in sequence.
Each level describes what the factory can reliably operate today and the next capability needed to progress. More agents do not create maturity; stronger controls and better evidence do.
L0 / Operating model
Ad Hoc Prompting
Individuals manually prompt AI tools with little shared process or retained evidence.
- What operates today
- Personal experimentation
- Next capability to earn
- Choose one bounded workflow and baseline its current cost, time, quality, and human effort.
Select a level to explore its controls. Your assessment score comes from the eleven dimensions below.
Assessment
Score what is demonstrably true today.
This is an educational diagnostic, not certification. The useful output is the next control or evidence gap to close.
Public self-assessment
Eleven dimensions. About five minutes.
Answer based on what your organization can demonstrate today—not what is planned. Results stay in this browser session unless you share the URL. They are not uploaded.
What should I do next?