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Lead AI agent delivery — from the first decision to running it in-house.

A practical field guide for the person running the work: the full delivery lifecycle, the roles, the validation gates, and the numbers that keep agent-driven projects on track. €139 incl. VAT, delivered instantly as a PDF — yours to keep.

What's inside

Everything to run one delivery pod, end to end.

Vendor-neutral and framework-agnostic — written for delivery, not for a compliance audit. A 37-page PDF, delivered instantly through a secure Polar checkout, VAT included and an invoice provided.

Lifecycle

Five gated phases

Qualify, discovery, setup, construction, activate — each with entry criteria, a decision gate, and a clean definition of done.

People

Roles and accountability

Who designs the system, who validates, who runs the rhythm, and who owns the outcome — with no gaps and a final validation veto.

Quality

Three validation gates

Research, planning, and implementation checks with concrete criteria that decide what ships — so speed never becomes unreviewed risk.

Sizing

Sizing by validation effort

Estimate work by the real constraint — how much expert review it takes — not by build effort, with a simple base-and-factors method.

Signals

Metrics and health signals

The handful of numbers that show what's really happening, plus the early-warning signs that catch drift before it reaches results.

Toolkit

Governance, reporting & reference

Risk, security, change, scope, budget, and adoption as continuous disciplines — plus reporting templates, checklists, a glossary, and a fillable project charter.

The lifecycle

Five phases, in order — with steering that never stops.

Phase 0

Qualify — is this suitable for agent-driven delivery, and is the ground ready?

Phase 1

Discovery — prove the solution is viable before you commit to building.

Phase 2

Setup — pass the readiness gates and prove the system works in practice.

Phase 3

Construction — build and validate through the workflow, at a sustainable rhythm.

Phase 4

Activate — harden, release, and hand over cleanly.

Two disciplines run alongside: continuous steering — metrics, evaluation, and observability — once you are building, and an optional guided handover when a team is getting started.

Who it's for

Written for the person running the work.

Delivery managers

Standing up or running agent-driven delivery day to day.

Project & programme managers

Who need a repeatable, defensible way of working.

Senior stakeholders

Deciding whether to commit budget to an agent build.

In-house teams

That want the capability to stay with them — not be rented.

When you want hands-on help

The playbook is the foundation. The services put it to work.

Read it and run with it on your own — or bring in support on your project. Four structured engagements cover readiness, setup, calibration, and team capability.

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The full way of working for AI agent delivery — lifecycle, roles, gates, and metrics — in one practical guide. €139 incl. VAT, delivered instantly.

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