Tutorial Fundamentals

Agentic PDLC fundamentals

The four phases, the one hard gate, the eight loops and the evidence that crosses each hand-off: the model every other track builds on.

9 lessons · about 67 minutes · The lifecycle, phase by phase

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#	Lesson	What it covers	Time
1	Evolution of the PDLC: From Waterfall to Agentic Delivery	How the product lifecycle evolved from waterfall to agile, DevOps and agentic delivery, and what genuinely changes when a model does part of the work.	8 min
2	Why Agentic AI Projects Fail: 7 Failure Modes and Fixes	Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by 2027. The seven failure modes behind that, why normal checks miss them, and the fix for each.	7 min
3	P0 Frame: How to Decide If an AI Agent Is Worth Building	P0 Frame is the agentic PDLC's first phase: turn a request into a measured pain, test whether it needs AI at all, size the value and set autonomy per action.	8 min
4	P1 Design & Spec: Write a Spec an AI Agent Can Build From	P1 Design & Spec turns a framed problem into an eight-field spec with EARS acceptance, a bar per slice and an authority budget an AI agent can build from.	8 min
5	The Hard Gate: The Hand-off You Can't Skip in AI Delivery	Only one hand-off in the agentic PDLC halts the build. Which decisions are hard, which run behind a placeholder, and the four questions that tell them apart.	7 min
6	P2 Build & Prove: How to Build an AI Agent in Proven Slices	P2 Build & Prove builds an AI agent in bolts of hours or days, gates every merge on a per-slice bar and ends with a shadow run beside the people doing the job.	8 min
7	P3 Run & Learn: How to Run an AI Agent in Production Safely	P3 Run & Learn covers cut-over, rollback, drift and cost for AI agents in production, and the two-number report that decides whether the programme survives.	7 min
8	The 8 Feedback Loops of AI Delivery and the 3 Teams Forget	Eight loops turn the agentic PDLC from a line into a ring. Five close themselves; three (cost, incident, governance) close only if a named person makes them.	7 min
9	The Evidence Pack: What Must Exist Before Each AI Hand-off	The minimum artefacts owed at each hand-off of an agentic AI project, and the one column that separates a real gate from a formality: enforced, or only written?	7 min

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Teaching it? Session 1 · Kick-off · Session 2 · Frame and spec · Session 3 · Build, run and the loops in the Cohort Kit turn this track into ninety-minute sessions.

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