Our company is changing its Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Curious to hear from others what theirs looks like overall + bottlenecks. Ours:
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1 week planning/retro, 6 weeks implementation (basically six 1-week sprints).
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Standup now mainly demoing what Engineering/Design is working on, getting quick feedback from teammates.
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Meetings are recorded/transcribed. Agents generate Product Requirement + System Design docs from those meetings.
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Push to have non-engineers be able to commit code, but engineering still responsible for shipping it.
Unsolved issues/bottlenecks:
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Ephemeral test environments (per PR test environments) aren't 100% reliable yet.
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No longer doing capacity planning, but it feels like we need to go back to it.
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Code reviews. They're longer and there's more of them. Even more with non-engineers being able to @Cursor on Slack.
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Design used to have Figma as the source of truth; now that they're heavily leaning on Claude Design, we don't get the linkage of Figma components to code components. We might solve this by moving from Cursor to Claude Code.
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