Optivem

Software Delivery Transformation

Make every release predictable — and keep it that way after I'm gone.

The shift you can measure: from finding out at release to knowing before merge.

Built on Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) and a four-layer system-test architecture.

For regulated-industry teams whose releases have become the riskiest day of the month. I don't reorganize your process or your people — I build a real system-test safety net into your system and the architecture beneath it, then hand it back to your team so the confidence outlasts the engagement. It's the difference between hoping a change is safe and knowing it.

How it works

Blueprint → Transformation. The Blueprint maps and prices the work; the Transformation delivers it as advance-billed milestones — the safety net built first, your team's ownership transferred last.

  1. Blueprint

    Map the architecture, price the roadmap

    A standalone, paid diagnostic. I map your current pipeline and system, propose the target pipeline, system, and system-test architecture, and sequence a roadmap that scopes and prices everything below. Yours to keep, whether or not you go further.

  2. Milestone 1

    Pipeline architecture

    The CI/CD foundation the whole safety net depends on — implemented by your team under my oversight, so it's built to the target spec the first time rather than corrected after the fact.

  3. Milestone 2

    Acceptance-test architecture

    The four-layer test harness — DSL, drivers, configurability — proven end to end with one real use case running green. The riskiest, highest-value step: it establishes the pattern everything else replicates.

  4. Coverage milestones

    Coverage scale-out

    I automate the regression checks your QA team runs by hand every release — highest-risk first, in a fixed set of separately-priced batches your Blueprint identifies. The boundary is the manual suite that gates your releases today, not your whole codebase; everything new your team builds is tested from the start. You decide how many batches in, and each batch is scoped and priced before it begins.

  5. Final milestone

    Your team takes ownership

    Your developers learn to run, read, debug, maintain, and extend the suite, and adopt ATDD for new work through training and pairing. After the engagement, a light recurring review keeps the practice alive — so the confidence outlasts it.

What we need from you

This is built with your team, not handed to it — that's what keeps the safety net owned in-house after I'm gone. It works when three things are in place on your side.

Investment

Priced by milestone and billed in advance, so you fund value as it lands — never a deadline you pay against. The Blueprint is a fixed fee; every figure below it is indicative until your Blueprint resolves it into a firm, milestone-by-milestone price, before you commit to the build.

BlueprintMap the architecture, price the roadmap
€10,000fixed · yours to keep
Milestone 1Pipeline architecture
€3,000–8,000
System-test buildAcceptance-test architecture & coverage
€25,000–60,000+
After handoverLight recurring review
€1,000–3,000per month

Typical full engagement: €40,000–90,000 all-in, plus a light recurring tail.

What it changes