The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. For me one of the most important principles from the agile manifest. Accordingly, such self-organized teams are the core of every DevOps adoption. Especially in larger companies the alignment of these self-organized teams is a challenge. At Swisscom we have found a good balance between autonomy and alignment thanks to a maturity check. In this talk I share the considerations that led to this and the content of the check.