Ask any developer about their stack and you will get an animated response. Technology choices reveal how a team thinks about strategy, investment, and innovation. These choices often emerge organically, someone discovers a tool on HackerNews or Twitter, experiments with it on a side project, and before long it spreads across the team.
In enterprise environments, however, technology adoption is more complex. Organizations often restrict choices through gatekeepers in Enterprise Architecture or Operations departments rather than Engineering, creating barriers to innovation and misalignment between strategy and practice.
A Better Approach: Technology Posture Management
DevGrid introduces Technology Posture Management, a feature inspired by Enterprise Architecture principles and the Technology Radar concept popularized by Thoughtworks. It provides a structured yet flexible way to understand, govern, and evolve your organization's technology landscape.
Visual Technology Representation
The platform provides a Tech Radar displaying your organization's technology views at a glance. You can see when positions were last codified, when the next review is due, and how adoption varies across different departments or portfolios. Teams can quickly assess the state of technology across the organization without digging through spreadsheets or outdated wiki pages.
Skills Integration
By linking technology adoption data with individual engineer skill levels, Technology Posture Management reveals gaps between strategy and reality. Is a technology marked as "Adopt" but nobody on the team has experience with it? Is a tool you want to phase out still deeply embedded in critical systems? These insights help leaders make informed decisions about training, hiring, and migration planning.
Lifecycle Tracking
Following standard stages, Assess, Trial, Adopt, Hold, the tool helps teams understand where each technology sits in the organizational lifecycle. This ensures alignment across teams and provides a shared vocabulary for discussing technology decisions.
Available Now
Technology Posture Management is available to all DevGrid customers. Request a tour to see how it can bring clarity to your organization's technology landscape.