The Spiral Knows What Ring You’re In

Per-revolution PRD-to-SRS gates, maturity-aware agent execution, and why the production surface is off-limits to new code Every engineering team I have spoken with in the past two years has the same problem. AI-assisted development is fast: faster than anyone predicted, faster than the process can absorb. Agents generate confidently. They decompose tasks, write services, wire … Read more

Turning ML Algo into a Service is tough

A R&D team working for me at a tech company developed an advanced machine learning algorithm that could detect duplicate records in large datasets with high accuracy. However, the R&D team struggled to turn this into an actual data anomaly detection service that could be used by the develop team responsible for production.  There were … Read more

When R&D and Dev have incompatible solution handoffs

The background to the incompatibilities is rooted in the separation of concerns, R&D must innovate while the Devs must maintain. There are several best practices that can help improve the handoff between R&D and Dev teams when their solutions are incompatible: 1. Increase collaboration during the solution design phase. Have members of the R&D and … Read more