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System Health Checklist: 10 Signs Your Software Is a Ticking Bomb

A practical diagnostic checklist to assess production system health in under 2 hours. Covers stability signals, knowledge risk, architecture risk, and operational readiness.

What's Inside

10 warning signs that indicate your software is at serious risk
A scoring system to assess overall system health in under 2 hours
Stability signals: incidents, alerts, deployment failures
Knowledge risk: bus factor, documentation gaps, onboarding time
Architecture risk: dependency age, test coverage, complexity hotspots
Operational readiness: monitoring, rollback capability, runbooks
A prioritised action guide based on your score

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