Admiral's Transformation Office
The command-and-control center ensuring everyone achieves the goals of SADMF through centralized direction, assessment, and accountability!
Tag: Governance
Centralized AI Generation Function (AIGF)
Consolidating all AI-assisted development into a single organizational function ensures consistent Output Quality Assurance (OQA) and eliminates dangerous local optimization!
CI/CD/ED
Continuous Isolation / Continuous Deliberation / Eventual Delivery is the most effective way to ensure perfection for every change!
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DevOps Release Convoy
The only way to ensure delivery alignment!
Integrated Performance Profile (IPP)
A permanent, immutable record of every metric, assessment, and ceremony outcome – because your best work should follow you forever, and so should your worst.
Standing Ceremonies
The phase-independent ceremonies that operate continuously throughout the convoy lifecycle
Systems Thinking
The SADMF is built upon systems thinking, with two bureaucratic systems operating under the Admiral’s Transformation Office.
Automated Corrective Action Engine (ACAE)
Threshold-triggered warnings, improvement plans, and separation actions – because compassion means never making a manager deliver bad news.
Code Review Comments per Convoy
Measuring the rigor of code review by counting every comment, because volume of criticism equals quality of oversight!
Conflict Arbitration
Darwinian source control ensures only the strongest change survives!
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Lean Management
Adding management layers to identify and eliminate waste ensures that no inefficiency goes unmanaged.
Principles
We must adhere to the correct principles to correctly perform the practices.
Weighted Shortest Voyage First (WSVF)
The definitive method for prioritizing features when everything is the highest priority
Captains' Meeting
The meeting to plan the date of the planning meeting
Change Rejection or Acceptance Party
CRAP ensures that only thoroughly reviewed and unanimously approved changes reach the Convoy!
Continuous Learning
Mandatory certifications and approved workshops ensure that learning is structured, tracked, and billable.
Chief Signals Officer
The senior executive ensuring plan adherence through daily publication of the Feature Completion Ratio!
Fractal-based Development
This elegant branching pattern provides the structure required for disciplined delivery at scale!
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Psychological Safety
Automated systems handle difficult personnel decisions so managers never face uncomfortable conversations.
AI-Powered Talent Optimization (AIPTO)
Machine learning models trained on SADMF metrics predict which employees will leave – and recommend which ones should.
Captain's Mast
A formal hearing for those who dare to suggest the plan should change
Code Standards Enforcement Team
CSET performs all code reviews so that Code Engineers can focus on typing code instead of reading it!
Limit WIP
The Workers Idle Problem occurs when resources are underutilized. Planning at 120% capacity ensures no engineer is ever without assigned work.
Roles
Commanding the organization requires structure, clearly defined roles, and strict separation of duties!
Amplify Feedback
Coaching employees is an important daily practice to ensure they know we are tracking their work and care about their output.
Code Engineer
The backbone of a SAD implementation, transforming requirements into machine-readable instructions quickly and quietly!
Legacy Architectural Integrity (LAI)
Ensuring AI operates within existing monolithic systems preserves Output Consistency Assurance (OCA) and eliminates the risk of unscoped optionality!
Press Gang
The ceremony where Code Engineers are drafted from the coding pool and assigned to features regardless of expertise or preference
Workforce Analytics & Reporting (WAR)
Stack-ranked dashboards, forced-distribution curves, and workforce refresh rates – because the best way to manage people is to rank them.
Comprehensive Documentation Assurance Protocol
Documentation is the primary deliverable – code is merely an artifact of the documentation process!
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Co-Owner, Product (COP)
The undivided Single Point of Contact for a product, shared across multiple COPs who collectively own accountability for decisions no single person could survive alone!
Coding
Where Code Engineers transform requirements into features using the proven discipline of Continuous Isolation
Commodore
The delivery commander who collects status, ensures framework compliance, and authorizes fleet deployment!
Everyone is Responsible
Each individual is responsible for their own work and should be rewarded or held accountable for the outcomes they produce.
Code Inspection
A rigorous compliance review ensuring all code meets the exacting standards maintained by the Code Standards Enforcement Team
Development Integrity Assurance Team
DIAT validates the work of QA to ensure that testing itself meets the organization’s quality standards!
Fail Fast
Rapid identification of who failed ensures accountability is assigned before root causes can be obscured by complexity.
High-Risk, Backlogged Strategic Epics (HRBSEs)
Backlog items deferred due to complexity, risk, or unclear intent become ideal candidates for AI execution, supporting Backlog Compression Objectives and reducing Unfulfilled Commitment Overhang!
Standardized Environment Provisioning
Environments manually configured via a 200-step checklist ensure consistency that code-based provisioning can never guarantee!
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Shore Leave
A dedicated period for innovation, learning, and catching up on status reports
DevOps Usage & Compliance Head Engineer
The DOUCHE owns the DevOps Process Binder and holds all teams accountable to the Right Way of doing DevOps!
Individual Velocity Score
Story points completed per engineer per Convoy, the definitive measure of individual contribution to team delivery!
Mandatory Status Synchronization
Status flows upward through every layer, ensuring leadership always has an accurate and current picture of the ground truth!
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The Armada
Coordinating multiple convoys for maximum enterprise alignment
Work in Small Batches
Too many releases are hard to report and manage. We focus on a small number of large releases each quarter to reduce overhead.
Execution Ceremonies
The ceremonies that govern active development, quality assurance, communication, and release authorization during the convoy execution phase
Planning Ceremonies
The ceremonies that establish commitments, schedule events, decompose work, and assemble teams before each convoy cycle begins
Change Approval Board (CAB) Processing
Requiring full CAB review for every AI-generated change, regardless of size or impact, guarantees Governance Fidelity, Audit Trail Robustness, and Multi-Stakeholder Visibility Alignment!
Enterprise Architecture Review Board
The EARB maintains the Book of Names, ensuring all Code Engineers use only approved words when naming things!
The Manager's Guide to Org Improvement
And rising through the ranks doing it!
Feature Captain
The mid-level manager who tracks feature progress and ensures their assigned Feature Team delivers on time!
Full Utilization Optimization
Engineers assigned to multiple products simultaneously achieve maximum organizational value and develop the adaptive resilience the modern enterprise demands!
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Commit to the Date
Delivery dates are sacred organizational commitments. Dates do not slip. Scope adjusts.
Feature Team
The group of Code Engineers assembled per Convoy to deliver a feature at maximum throughput from day one!
Quality Authority
Manual testing specialists who serve as the final arbiter of requirements, because the only TRUE way to test is by hand!
Manifest Approval
The formal ceremony in which the Convoy Steering Committee determines whether the paperwork is sufficiently complete to allow software to be deployed
Review Board Review Board
The RBRB reviews the decisions of EARB and CRAP, ensuring that the reviewers are themselves properly reviewed!
Multi-Trunk Based Development (Pando)
The correct vocabulary for Trunk Based Development at enterprise scale: every branch is a trunk, and every trunk is accounted for in the Pando fleet registry!
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Source Management Team
The SMT authorizes branches, merges code, and resolves all conflicts so Code Engineers never have to!
Change Adjudication Convening
The biweekly ceremony in which the CRAP formally convenes to render its judgment on every proposed change to the software estate
Dry Dock
A dedicated period for addressing accumulated defects, provided feature pressure allows it
System of Authority
The team of teams accountable for implanting SADMF in your organization through contractors and consultants!
Rota Fortunae
Driving organizational improvement through random restructuring
System of Service
The team of teams accountable for achieving deadlines and shipping code through servant leadership and self-governance!
Tribunal
Building quality in by identifying and removing the person responsible for each defect
Product Direction Arbitration Council
PDAC ensures every stakeholder’s voice is heard in product decisions, preventing any single perspective from dominating the backlog!
Transition to the Scaled Agile DevOps Maturity Framework
A case study of an enterprise transformation without the risk of cultural change!
Success Stories!
Triumphant experience reports from SAD Accredited Facilitators!
PeopleWare HR as a Service
Human Resources as a Service
Enterprise AI Enablement Framework (EAIEF™)
A Strategic Reference Architecture for High-Throughput Developer Output Optimization (HTDOO)
SADMF Big Picture
Every role, practice, ceremony, metric, and principle classified by group, function, and Accountability Index.