AI Tooling · Tier 1

Agentic Development Life Cycle (ADLC)

The engineering manifesto that replaced ad-hoc ticket work at my company with a phase-gated, human-approved delivery pipeline.

Role Author & Programme LeadEmployer Polygon Technology LimitedArea AI Tooling

Most "AI in the SDLC" stories are about generating code faster. This one is about what has to be true before generation is safe: a proposal, an agent-ready specification, a governance and vetting gate, and a human approving every phase transition. Only then does the EPIC delivery loop run — spec, plan, tasks, agent implementation, integration, verification, review, done — and the work carries on into supervised maintenance and handover once the feature is complete. The generation step is the easy part.

What I did

• The practice, authored and rolled out org-wide. Proposal → Agent-ready Spec → Governance & Vetting → EPIC Delivery Loop (Spec → Plan → Tasks → Agent Implements → Integrate → Verify → Review → Done) → Feature Complete → Supervised Maintenance → Handover, with human approval at every transition. Trained every engineer in context engineering; multiple teams converted to spec-driven development.

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