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How ready is your team to let AI do more of the work?

Fourteen questions, about five minutes. You'll get a result, the areas to look at first, and a sensible next step.

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This self-check uses JavaScript to score your answers. To score it yourself, count Not yet as 0, Partly as 1, and Yes as 2. A total of 0–9 means getting started, 10–19 uneven progress, and 20–28 ready to scale, unless delivery foundations or risk and compliance score below 3 out of 4, in which case it's foundations first.

Delivery foundations

1. Do commitments usually land when you said they would?

Not yetPartlyYes

2. Could you safely ship to production on any given day, with automated tests and deployment?

Not yetPartlyYes

Adoption and practice

3. Do most of your engineers use AI tools in their daily work, not just a few enthusiasts?

Not yetPartlyYes

4. Is there a shared, written way of working with AI (context, review, and testing) that the team actually follows?

Not yetPartlyYes

5. Do you have standards and guardrails that AI-generated code must pass before it ships?

Not yetPartlyYes

6. Are code review and testing keeping up with the volume of change AI produces?

Not yetPartlyYes

Goals and outcomes

7. Have you set goals for what AI should improve, and do you track them?

Not yetPartlyYes

8. Could you show your CEO or board what has actually changed since you adopted AI?

Not yetPartlyYes

Readiness for agents

9. Are your requirements clear enough that an agent could act on them without a long back-and-forth?

Not yetPartlyYes

10. Do you have the automated tests and environments to check an agent's work safely?

Not yetPartlyYes

11. Do agents already complete real tasks end to end, with human review, beyond autocomplete?

Not yetPartlyYes

Risk and compliance

12. Do you know what data your AI tools can see, and where it goes?

Not yetPartlyYes

13. Could you show an auditor (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or your regulator) that AI use is under control?

Not yetPartlyYes

People and leadership

14. Is someone accountable for the change, with the time and authority to lead it, and have roles and expectations been updated to match?

Not yetPartlyYes

Your result:

of 28

Where to look first

A sensible next step

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Shawn Duggan. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia; working with teams anywhere.

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