The Agentic Software Development Lifecycle

Delivery, evolved.

A six‑level maturity model that moves software delivery from manual, human‑led execution to a self‑optimizing engineering intelligence platform — with humans always accountable.

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Core principle — AI everywhere; humans who deploy it remain accountable always.
The maturity journey

Six levels. One bottleneck removed at a time.

Each level is a structural response to a specific way the Productivity Paradox manifests. Organizations should not skip levels.

0Traditional SDLCEverything is manual, document-centric, and people-dependent. Doer · 0% 1Assisted AIAI as a Copilot for individual tasks. The psychological bridge. Doer · 20–40% 2Integrated AIAI wired into the toolchain — phase-level optimization. Validator · 40–60% 3Connected AIThe end-to-end value-stream orchestrator with a traceability backbone. Orchestrator · 60–80% 4Autonomous AIMulti-agent orchestration. Humans move on-the-loop. Supervisor · 70–90%+ 5Adaptive SDLCA self-optimizing closed loop that learns from production. Governor · >90%
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AI everywhere. Humans accountable always.