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Six disciplines of governed software delivery
Software delivery is not a single activity — it is a coordination of distinct disciplines, each with its own tools, standards, and success criteria. Most teams blur these boundaries, leading to ad-hoc workflows where design decisions happen during implementation, quality checks happen after deployment, and operations knowledge lives in one person's head.
The SBX framework organizes delivery into six departments, each with dedicated CLI commands, knowledge artifacts, and governance gates. This structure does not add bureaucracy — it removes ambiguity. When every discipline has a clear scope and toolset, teams spend less time asking "whose job is this?" and more time doing the work.
All Departments
Each department page shows its CLI commands, workflow patterns, and governance artifacts in action. Together, these six disciplines cover the full lifecycle — from the first user story to the production health check.
Project Management
The backbone of structured delivery. Every task flows through a governed SDLC pipeline — from goal definition through user stories, test fixtures, layered implementation, and verified commit. Decision records capture the rationale behind every architectural choice. Traceability ensures nothing ships without a reason, a test, and a trace back to the original requirement.
Design & Prototyping
Design is not decoration — it is the interface contract between the product and its users. The sandbox prototyping workflow generates multiple HTML variants before any Svelte code is written, letting visual decisions happen in isolation from technical complexity. A 47-component library with brand-token compliance ensures every interface element speaks the same visual language.
Software Engineering
The core development loop — build, test, check, and run — wrapped in governed CLI commands that enforce consistent tooling across Go backends and SvelteKit frontends. Multi-platform support means the same workflow applies whether you are writing API endpoints, domain logic, or interactive components. Every build is reproducible; every test is traceable.
Quality Assurance
Quality is built in, not bolted on. Over 350 knowledge artifacts — patterns, standards, solutions, and guidelines — are loaded automatically at each SDLC step. Conformance gates verify that every exported function traces to a user story. Solution-before-code governance means proven approaches are reused instead of reinvented.
Operations
From local Docker infrastructure to production deployment on remote servers — operations are codified, not improvised. Vault-managed secrets, R2 object storage, media processing pipelines, and database migrations all flow through governed CLI commands with audit trails. Deployment is a single command with automatic health verification.
AI Workflow
Human-AI symbiosis — not replacement, partnership. Claude Code agents operate within governance boundaries defined by hooks, skills, and decision records. The AI loads knowledge artifacts, follows SDLC discipline, and produces traceable output. The human sets direction, reviews decisions, and owns the final product. Every AI-generated artifact is verified before it enters the codebase.