Technical Due Diligence: What to Examine Before You Buy or Invest | Clickmasters

Test coverage on critical paths, deployment maturity, dependency currency, and bus-factor: how much lives only in one engineer's head is a price term.

Not a grade — a list of findings each with remediation cost and urgency, feeding directly into valuation or the first-100-days plan.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.