Deployment Intelligence™
The practitioner’s guide to predicting deployment failures before they happen.
36 research-validated signals. Composite scoring models. Hard gates for schema migrations. A 16-week rollout playbook. And the case for why DORA metrics alone are not enough.
What’s inside
15 chapters. From the problem to the solution to the implementation.
Who this book is for
VP / Director of Engineering
You need to reduce deployment incidents without slowing delivery. This book gives you the framework and the business case.
Engineering Manager
You run the team that deploys. You want to know which PRs to scrutinize and which to ship with confidence.
Staff / Principal Engineer
You architect the systems. You want to build risk scoring into the CI/CD pipeline, not bolt it on after.
Platform / DevOps Engineer
You own the deploy pipeline. You want to automate risk gating with data, not gut feel.
About the author
Andrew McCarron
Founder, Koalr
20+ years in IT consulting, software delivery, and engineering leadership. Certified SAFe SPC and PSM. Built Koalr to solve the deployment risk problem he kept seeing across every team he worked with: teams that measured velocity but couldn’t predict which deploys would fail.
Stop guessing. Start predicting.
Get the complete deployment risk framework — 36 signals, scoring models, and a step-by-step rollout playbook.