Phase 11: Capstone: The AI-Native Product Engineer · 50 min · Claude Code · Python

Capstone Hardening: The Production Readiness Review

Google's SREs won't take over a service until it passes a production readiness review. Your capstone deserves the same standard applied to itself, by you, before you call it done.

Real-world application: Running a real production readiness review against your own capstone — scoring maturity honestly and producing a prioritized remediation plan, not just a pass/fail badge — demonstrates the same operational discipline Google SRE requires before taking over a production service.

What you will learn

Explain what a production readiness review (PRR) is and why Google SRE requires one before taking over a service
Score your capstone product's maturity across seven categories: spec coverage, test coverage, quality gates, observability, incident response, harness regression, and platform architecture
Distinguish a category scored 'not started,' 'partial,' and 'complete' using concrete, checkable evidence rather than self-assessment alone
Produce a remediation plan that prioritizes fixes by real production risk rather than listing gaps in arbitrary order

Introduction

Capstone Hardening: The Production Readiness Review

Objective

Score the capstone product across seven PRR categories, compute an overall readiness summary, and generate a remediation plan ordered by real production risk.

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