Due Dilligence – M&A
Basic points:
- What will it take to modify and add new functionality
- Maintainability and automated testing
- Scalability risks and strengths
- System design, code size, technologies, and complexity
- Open source and other dependencies
- Security and privacy risks
- Development capability, data center practices
- Defect/incident analysis
- Sophistication and robustness of algorithms and data models
- Internationalization, portability, or other quality attributes
- Your specific questions
Another view from: http://www.crosslaketech.com/technical-due-diligence-checklist-why-acquiring-firms-need-it/
Approach
- Fact-based & Belief based
- Avoid bullshit
- Point at what actually is
- Context
- Conditions –> into which this goes
- Capability . from + to
- Culture
- This fails by …
- This succeeds by …