Openers · CoE Maturity Review
Show what your Center of Excellence is worth – before a budget review decides for you.
A two-hour facilitated assessment across five dimensions. You walk out with a maturity score, your top gaps and strengths, and one improvement pathway you can start this quarter.
- ForCoE lead and executive sponsor
- The questionWhere does the CoE create value, and where does it multiply cost?
- You decidethe one pathway to start now
- Nextcredited against a Strategy Sprint
Sounds familiar?
Good work, invisible to the people who fund it.
“Our CoE does good work, but nobody can see it.”
“The budget review is coming and we can't show what we deliver.”
“Every team builds it their own way – we just keep paying.”
What you get
Three things you can take to leadership.
Scored maturity checklist
Five dimensions, filled in together during the session.
Findings and recommendations
Maturity score, gaps, strengths and context – within five business days.
One implementation pathway
The best value for effort, with rationale, effort estimate and first three steps.
What it looks like
A maturity scorecard, not an opinion.
Each dimension scored on a four-level scale, with the gap that matters most and the pathway that closes it. The checklist is tailored to your function: Cloud CoE, FinOps, platform engineering, DevOps, data or other.
Pathway: a monthly value report to the sponsor – adoption, time saved, cost avoided – from data the CoE already has.
An illustrative example; yours carries your own scores and findings.
How it works
From booking to the report in two to three weeks.
Day 1 · 30 minutes, async
Book and prepare
A short context form: CoE type, team size, current challenges.
Week 1–2 · 2 hours
Maturity workshop
We score each dimension and choose the improvement pathway together.
+5 business days
Findings report
Ready to share with leadership; an optional check-in after 30 days.
Who should be involved
- CoE lead or head of the function
- Executive sponsor – CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Cloud or Platform
- optional: a business stakeholder who works with the CoE
Price
Fixed before we start. Lite upfront, the rest when it's done.
Lite
€1,500
- You collect the input with my templates
- One day of analysis
- Findings call and report
- Paid upfront
Review
from €5,000
- Tailored checklist and 2-hour workshop
- Scored maturity across five dimensions
- Report with one implementation pathway
Implementation Sprint
on scope
- Executes the selected pathway
- Four to six weeks, fixed scope
- Or a full CoE build, strategy to operating model
If you continue with a Strategy Sprint, the review fee is credited against it.
Details
Most CoEs are doing good work. The problem is nobody can see it – including the people running them.
What we assess
| Dimension | What we look at |
|---|---|
| Governance | Is the CoE properly chartered – clear mandate, ownership and decision rights? |
| Strategy alignment | Does its work visibly connect to business goals and executive priorities? |
| Delivery | Is it shipping repeatable, measurable value to its stakeholders? |
| Enablement | Is it building capability in the organisation – or just doing the work itself? |
| Metrics and value | Can you show what it has achieved – ROI, adoption, time saved, risk reduced? |
The checklist is tailored to your function: Cloud CoE, FinOps, platform engineering, DevOps, data, or other.
Why it matters
A CoE that cannot demonstrate its own maturity is vulnerable: the budget gets cut, teams get reassigned, the work continues but the function disappears. The CoEs that stay funded can answer three questions clearly – what does it actually do, how mature is it, and what is it improving next, and why. This review gives you the language, the evidence and the roadmap to answer all three.