Process & Organizational ReadinessAugust 24, 20263 min read
10 Things to Fix 6 Months Before You List Your Company
A six-month runway is enough to change how a buyer prices your engineering organization. Here is where that time is best spent.
Preparation work compounds. Fixes made six months before a listing show up as operating history by the time diligence begins, which is far more persuasive than a change made the week the data room opens.
The highest-yield items
- Reproducible environment setup documented and tested by a new hire
- A dependency and license inventory refreshed automatically
- Access reviews with departed contractors fully removed
- Incident history captured with timelines and resolutions
- A second engineer able to deploy and roll back unaided
None of this requires rewriting the product. It requires evidence that the product runs without heroics, which is the question every buyer is actually asking.
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