A discovery is where we sit with your team to map the current situation against your target operating model. We cover technology, software delivery cycle time, automation maturity, and cloud readiness on AWS and Azure. The output is a concrete plan: where to start, what to sequence, and what stays where it is.
Done well, a discovery shortens the gap between intent and engineering: with everyone aligned on what is validated, what is still an assumption, and what belongs in the next planning horizon.
A short, time-boxed engagement (usually two to four weeks), organised in three honest phases.
Conversations with engineering, product, security and finance, plus the people running the platform day to day. We get the picture from inside the org, not from a slide deck.
We look at the environment as it is: pipelines, IaC, accounts, identity, network, baselines, and call out the constraints that matter. Tools are means, not targets.
We hand back a concrete plan: a small number of properly scoped projects, in the right order, that your teams can pick up and run with (with or without us).
The discovery is run by people who would later build the platform: so the plan is one your engineers can actually execute.
Two to four weeks, fixed scope. Long enough to understand the situation, short enough to be useful.
If the answer is "don't move", we say so. If it's "this is solvable in two sprints", we say that too. ISO 9001, 27001, NEN 4400-1.
The Factory is a Dutch cloud consultancy based in Rijswijk (Zuid-Holland). We work with organisations across the Randstad (Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Eindhoven), and with customers elsewhere in the European Union. Our architects and platform engineers operate in Dutch and English, with experience on AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
Mostly mid-size and enterprise organisations across the Netherlands: in financial services, public sector, healthcare, education, industry, and SaaS. Engagements range from a short cloud assessment to long-running managed cloud operations.
The Factory B.V.
Veraartlaan 12
2288 GM Rijswijk, The Netherlands
info@thefactory.nl
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