Blue Pill: Stay in the Illusion

Aspect	Illusion (Blue Pill)
Automation Scope	Are CI/CD pipelines limited to individual projects? Are deployments still partially manual? Is the current pipeline prone to frequent errors or rollbacks?
Team Collaboration	Do teams work in silos with unclear responsibilities? Is there a lack of communication during deployment cycles? Are there delays caused by misaligned priorities between Dev and Ops?
Security	Are security checks performed only after code is deployed? Are vulnerabilities often found late in the development lifecycle? Is compliance tracking done manually?
Cloud Adoption	Is cloud adoption fragmented across teams? Are cloud resources manually provisioned? Is there a lack of centralized cloud governance?
Cloud Cost Optimization	Are cloud costs monitored only reactively? Are there unused resources leading to wasted expenditure? Is there a lack of clear visibility into cloud spending?
Infrastructure	Are infrastructure resources manually provisioned? Are there inconsistencies between development and production environments? Is scalability a challenge due to static infrastructure?
Monitoring	Is monitoring limited to reactive alerts after incidents? Are logs stored without actionable insights? Is system performance analysis done manually?
Deployment Frequency	Are deployments error-prone and infrequent? Do deployment processes rely heavily on manual intervention? Is feedback from deployments slow or non-existent?
Technical Documentation	Is documentation outdated or sparse? Are there inconsistencies between documentation and actual workflows? Is tribal knowledge a primary dependency for onboarding?
Onboarding	Is onboarding reliant on senior team members? Do new hires take longer to become productive? Is there a lack of structured onboarding material?
Test Automation	Are tests primarily executed manually, leading to delays? Is there limited or no integration between testing tools and CI/CD pipelines? Are regression tests taking a significant amount of time during release cycles? Are tests frequently skipped due to lack of automation coverage?

Staying in the illusion can lead to long-term inefficiencies of your product.
Embrace reality for growth. Select Red Pill