Adoption roadmap

Don't roll out everything at once. This roadmap helps a team adopt the reference model incrementally and record choices in your ADRs.

Reference only

Customize timelines for your org size, compliance tier, and existing tooling.

Week 1 — Orient

Day	Action	Read
1	Team lead walks through How to use	HOW-TO-USE
2	Pick one lifecycle phase to improve first	Lifecycle hubs
3	Each role reads their perspective	Role pages
4	Align on GOVERNANCE roles (adapt RACI)	GOVERNANCE
5	Record "we start with phase X" in your ADR	—

Recommended first phase: Plan (ADR + spec) or Verify (CI gates).

Milestone	Deliverable
Intake template	Customized SOP-001
ADR folder	`docs/adr/` in your repo + SOP-002
Spec approval	SOP-003 with ARCH/PO owners
Data classification	Glossary started — Data governance guide
AI policy	SOP-010 signed by all engineers

Milestone	Deliverable
AI tooling	Decision: AI coding tools guide → your ADR
Pre-commit	gitleaks + linter — Linters guide
CI gates	Secret + unit + SAST on PR — SOP-005
PR review	Human reviewer required; AI advisory
Identity baseline	SSO + no human access keys — Identity guide

Milestone	Deliverable
CI/CD	CI/CD guide → pipeline in your repo
Staging	PO sign-off gate — Release hub
Runtime	Compute choice ADR — Runtime AWS guide
Deploy roles	Separate build vs deploy IAM (OIDC)

Milestone	Deliverable
Observability	Metrics + traces — Monitoring guide
Dashboards	Golden dashboard per service
On-call	Incident guide + SOP-007
Postmortem	SOP-008 for Sev-1/2
Feedback loop	Monitoring as QA ticket type