The North Star Discovery Sprint forced us to name five integration risks we had been hand-waving. The dependency notes now anchor our quarterly planning.
Minseo K. · Engineering manager · Cloud logistics SaaS · 5/5 · survey
discovery · Hybrid workshops + async review
North Star Discovery Sprint
Compress ambiguity into a ranked backlog with constraints mapped to your stack in Busan time zones.
Diagnostic
Duration: 10 business days · Investment (indicative): KRW 900,000
Engagement length filter: 10 days
Team shape: Core squad (≤8)
Architecture focus: Single product
Request scoped briefScope narrative
We interview leads, read incident retros, and trace dependency graphs to produce a sequenced discovery brief. You receive decision logs, risk flags, and a draft milestone map aligned to release trains—not slide filler.
Included focus areas
- Stakeholder interviews with engineering managers and platform owners
- Dependency graph review across CI, artifacts, and runtime contracts
- Risk register tied to integration seams and data contracts
- Prioritized theme backlog with effort envelopes
- Playback workshop with your squad leads
- Written capture of open questions for legal or procurement follow-up
Expected outcomes
- Shared vocabulary for architecture drift conversations
- A ranked backlog your teams can schedule immediately
- Clear owners for each integration risk
Accountable lead
Haneul Park
Principal consultant focused on release planning for SaaS teams operating across KR and APAC.
Field notes from clients
Playback workshop surfacing CI gaps was blunt—in a useful way. Roadmap deck from prior vendors never mentioned artifact signing once.
Jiwon · Delivery lead · 4/5
Clarifications
Read-only access helps but is not mandatory. We can work from architecture diagrams, runbooks, and recent incident notes.