Business-led Roadmap
Transform business intent into governed AI agent sprints with automated ceremonies, evidence-based closure, and DORA metrics.
“When evaluating stalled digital and AI transformations, many of the issues can be traced back to insufficient planning and alignment. We typically see five serious sins: leaders have a different conceptual understanding of digital; leaders focus energies on pet projects that don't deliver much value; they focus too much on technology solutions.”
A business-led roadmap is the blueprint for a successful digital and AI transformation. Three elements are foundational and universal: vision, alignment, and commitment. ADLC enforces this through the product-owner agent and the Authority Chain: HITL -> Product-Owner -> Cloud-Architect -> Specialist — zero exceptions.
Source: Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI (Lamarre, Smaje, Zemmel, 2023)
As Claude models improve reasoning, /speckit.specify generates higher-quality specs with fewer iterations. Each model release shortens the spec-to-code cycle.
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What happens without this pillar, and why ADLC scales from 1 person to enterprise
Without a business-led roadmap, teams build technology for technology's sake. McKinsey found only 31% of companies capture expected revenue lift from digital initiatives (Rewired, Introduction p.1). The five serious sins: different conceptual understanding, pet projects, too much tech focus, spread too thin, CEO delegates away (p.15-16).
The product-owner agent and speckit commands provide sprint governance that scales with your team. One manager with AI agents or a 100-person org — the ceremonies and evidence requirements remain consistent.
ANZ enterprise verticals where this pillar is most critical
Each pillar feeds the next — creating a self-reinforcing cycle of capability building
Business roadmap defines which agent capabilities to build next. Product decisions drive talent requirements.
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