Live Infrastructure for Integration Testing
When local services are already running, skip mocks and test the real pipeline end-to-end
process (10 lessons)
Code Review as Requirements Source
Systematic triage of code review findings produces a traceable requirements document — turning ad hoc observations into prioritized, implementable work.
Five-Stage Design-to-Execution Workflow
A repeatable workflow — Design, PDR, Plan, Execute, Commit — with table-driven task tracking and one-commit-per-phase discipline, applied across 18 project phases.
Validation Severity Model
Why the validator uses ERROR/WARNING/INFO levels and why warnings never fail the build.
Lesson 053: Audit-First Design
Before writing any code for a new feature, produce a written audit of the existing codebase: what exists, what can be re...
Lesson 054: Phased Autonomous Execution Plans
Breaking large projects into numbered, independently shippable phases — each with explicit entry criteria, exit criteria...
Code Review Driven Remediation
A whole-codebase code review is only as valuable as the remediation that follows it. The review itself produces a findin...
Design-First Development
Writing a design document and a Physical Design Requirements (PDR) document before coding catches architectural mistakes...
Lessons Learned as a Practice
Systematically extracting lessons from project work — and writing them as standalone documents — turns ephemeral experie...
Phased Release Planning
Breaking large features into ordered phases — each independently shippable, each ending with a commit — transforms ambit...