Synthèse
My first instinct was to start building agents, but I quickly realized I was thinking about it backwards. I asked myself, “If this feature were built by a small software team, what would the natural stage boundaries look like?” That led me to four stages: Research → Planning → Implementation → Review. I updated my Jira board to match that workflow, with each column representing a stage of the SDLC instead of just another status. That small shift changed everything. The board stopped feeling like
My first instinct was to start building agents, but I quickly realized I was thinking about it backwards. I asked myself, “If this feature were built by a small software team, what would the natural stage boundaries look like? ” That led me to four stages: Research → Planning → Implementation → Review. I updated my Jira board to match that workflow, with each column representing a stage of the SDLC instead of just another status. That small shift changed everything.
The board stopped feeling like a place to track work and became a place to delegate it. While a work item sat in a column, that stage owned the work.