An agentic software development lifecycle, from assessment to first agent-built release
A large customer-operations company wanted AI agents to carry routine development work, with controls its leadership could defend.
The brief
Find out how ready the teams and the code were, define a lifecycle where agents build and people decide, and prove it on real work rather than a demo.
Outcome
What we did
- Readiness assessment of teams, repositories and practices; a scope that matched the actual maturity rather than the wish list
- The lifecycle and its gates: intake and planning, agent dispatch within limits, human review, merge, deployment and evaluation, with evidence kept for every change
- A first increment delivered through it with the client's own people, a playbook for the next teams, and a coaching rhythm to keep it honest
