Optivem

Software Delivery Transformation

A release that breaks in production isn't a bug in a regulated environment — it's an incident: trust lost with buyers, and your team pulled into days of firefighting instead of shipping.

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

From finding out in production to catching it before release — built on ATDD and a four-layer system-test architecture.

How it works

Phase 1 · Roadmap

Output: The Blueprint — architecture and roadmap for the delivery pipeline and automated system testing.
Value: A clear, costed path to automated system testing that replaces manual regression — so you know exactly what it takes to accelerate delivery and cut escaped bugs before committing to the build.
Process: I map your key use cases and system architecture, assess external system configurability, propose the target pipeline and system-test architecture, and lay out the roadmap to get there most efficiently.

After the Blueprint, the roadmap is yours — with no obligation to continue. Phases 2 and 3 are what execution looks like with me.

Phase 2 · Architecture Implementation

Output: An automated build-and-release setup plus a reusable testing toolkit (pipeline, DSL, and drivers), proven on one real feature from start to finish — so the team can now test that the whole system behaves correctly, the same way for every future feature.
Value: This is the riskiest, highest-value step. It establishes the repeatable pattern that every later feature simply copies — so once it works here, the rest is replication, not invention.
Process: I advise your DevOps engineer and/or developers as they implement the pipeline architecture, running a sample smoke test and end-to-end test. In parallel, I build the system-test architecture — DSL, drivers, and channels — and prove it running on your primary use case, spanning an external system.

Phase 3 · Team Implementation

Output: Your team running the full test-first cycle (ATDD) on their own — without me — and the highest-risk part of your manual regression suite automated, worked in strict priority order through a fixed coaching block.
Value: Manual testing cost drops as coverage grows — and because each new feature now ships already covered, the backlog you're paying down never grows back.
Process: Your QA engineers convert the manual regression suite into automated Acceptance Tests and External System Contract Tests — highest-risk first, working in priority order through a fixed coaching block, so the scenarios that carry the most risk are covered first and the team owns the pattern to continue the rest themselves — while I coach the work and accelerate it with AI, and a developer extends the DSL and drivers as new cases require. In parallel, I train your Product Owner, QA engineers, and developers to run Acceptance Criteria → Acceptance Tests → implementation on every new story and bug fix. A light recurring review keeps it alive after I'm gone.

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.

Your developers' time. A core group available to build and pair through each milestone, not just review at the end — that's how the capability transfers instead of arriving as a black box.
Access to your systems. Working access to the codebase, build pipeline, and the environments a release moves through, so the architecture is mapped and built against what you actually run.
A sponsor who clears the path. One decision-maker empowered to set priorities, unblock access, and protect the team's time when delivery pressure competes with the build.

Investment

Billed by phase, in advance — you fund value as it lands, never a deadline you pay against. Every price is fixed up front, and the Blueprint is yours to keep whether or not you continue. Prices apply to contracts signed in 2026.

Phase 1 · Roadmap: €10,000fixed
Phase 2 · Architecture Implementation: €50,000fixed
Phase 3 · Team Implementation: €40,000fixed

Full engagement: €100,000 all-in across all three phases — billed by phase, stop anytime.

Or commit to all three phases up front: €90,000 paid in full at signing — a 10% saving for booking the whole engagement together, in exchange for the phase-by-phase exit.

Terms, plainly

Non-cancelable — but never wasted. Once a phase is paid it isn't refunded or cancelled — but the engagement can be postponed, delayed, or rescheduled without penalty and with no time limit. If a reorganization, an acquisition, or a shift in priorities forces a pause, your payment waits for you rather than being lost; scheduled payments still fall due as agreed. The risk is managed up front instead — a low-cost Blueprint before any big commitment.
Quality guaranteed; outcomes are not. I guarantee the quality of my work. I don't guarantee outcomes — they depend on variables outside my control: your team's time, your decisions, and the delivery pressures around them (see What we need).
Stop anytime, on the staged option. Paying phase by phase, you can end the engagement after any milestone — you keep everything delivered so far, and nothing further is billed. The full-commitment option trades this flexibility for the lower price.
No waiting fee. There's no retainer or reservation charge between milestones — when you're ready for the next one, we schedule it.

What it changes

A bad release stops being a business risk. Defects that cost you trust with regulated buyers and pull the team into days of firefighting get caught before merge — not discovered in production.
A bounded, staged investment. You pay per milestone as value lands — not an open-ended transformation.
The capability stays in-house. Your team owns the safety net and the architecture beneath it. The engagement ends by design — it isn't a permanent dependency.