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.

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

What it changes