Workload Onboarding Assessment

As an industry leader providing assessment and implementation services across government and private sector clients, Appvia is the perfect partner to conduct your Workload Onboarding assessment. Efficient onboarding is key to boosting productivity, overcoming operational hurdles, and allowing teams to focus on delivering value. Many organizations face challenges with fragmented documentation, inconsistent access provisioning, and manual environment setup, which slows down productivity. Our Workload Developer Onboarding Assessment provides platform insights and recommendations on streamlining the delivery of applications using Azure-native services. Through structured workshops, documentation review and optional technical analysis, we uncover inefficiencies, identify best practices, and recommend improvements tailored to your organisation’s DevOps and engineering workflows.

What We Offer

We assess the full developer onboarding experience to help organisations improve efficiency, self-service capabilities, and automation. Our engagement covers:

• Developer Onboarding – Ensuring new developers have the right documentation, IAM roles, and environment setup to contribute quickly.
• Developer Training & Documentation – Reviewing existing documentation, playbooks, and structured training processes for Azure services.
• Project Onboarding – Evaluating how new projects are provisioned, Git and artefact repositories, such as Github, Github actions, Github Packages or Azure Artifacts.
• DevOps & Platform Integrations – Examining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and developer enablement tooling such as Azure Dev Box, Github Actions, Application and Data landing zone setup, Azure Monitor, Application insights and Azure Log analytics
• Self-Service & Automation – Reviewing the maturity of developer-driven automated provisioning, automation templates for Github, Integrated code libraries for Application insights and Log analytics.
• Technical Pipeline Review (Optional) – A deep dive into pipeline architecture, security, and efficiency improvements - such as Github Advanced Security, Defender, Trivy and Checkov

Assessment Agenda

Our assessment is conducted through interactive workshops with relevant teams, followed by technical analysis where required:

Structured Workshops with Key Teams

Workload

• Gathering feedback from the workload team on their onboarding experience, what works and what could be improved.
• Gathering feedback on new project initiation experiences, pain points and insights.

Platform / Operations Teams

• Understanding developer and project onboarding workflows.
• Reviewing infrastructure provisioning, and CI/CD pipelines that support onboarding, and any self-service capabilities, both existing and planned.

Technical Analysis (Optional)

• Reviewing pipeline efficiency, security, and automation.
• Identifying gaps in new projects cloud account provisioning, Git repo setup, standard modules and artefacts, documentation templates, and access provisioning.
• Review sample onboarding ticket flows for processing time analysis.
• Analyse historical feedback and retrospectives.
• Correlate findings

Findings & Recommendations

• Compile findings into a formal report presenting insights on onboarding, identifying gaps and inefficiencies.
• Providing a report on actionable recommendations for improvement.

Deliverables

At the end of the assessment, we provide a structured report detailing:

• Current State Analysis – A comprehensive breakdown of how onboarding currently works.
• Pain Points & Bottlenecks – Identification of inefficiencies impacting developer productivity.
• Maturity Assessment – Evaluating self-service and automation readiness.
• Best Practice Recommendations – Tailored guidance for streamlining developer onboarding.
• Technical Architecture Review (Optional) – Pipeline architecture and proposed optimisations.
• Implementation Roadmap – A prioritised set of recommendations for improving onboarding processes.