SDLC :: Hicks Engineering :: Consulting for Agile / Software Development Life Cycle
Solutions for SDLC policy and consulting.
The SDLC (software development life cycle) is what defines your workflow and keeps you on track for continuing compliance and improvement. In a regulated environment such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11, your SDLC will define your change management policy and validation with each push to production.
We understand the challenge of creating a system that allows you to plan and not always be reactive, eliminating the path of coding new functionality first and worrying about the details later. That is a path that is very risky and puts organizations out of compliance.
We can review your existing SDLC or start from scratch with a full roadmap to put your team on the path to requirements driven development that helps you to iteratively reach your goal by always delivering working software that is easliy testable.

We have helped teams successfully transition from waterfall to full CI/CD workflows. We also help teams start from the beginning with a full roadmap, from the functional requirements to release planning strategy.


Some of the solutions we provide for SDLC design include:

  • Full SDLC roadmap
  • CICD Strategy
  • Agile coaching
  • Writing Gherkin Functional Requirements
  • Sprint Planning
  • Design planning
  • Retrospectives
  • Build environment planning: dev, test, staging, spikes
  • Definition of Done and Acceptance guidance
  • Change Management
  • Risk Assessments
  • Bug management
  • Baseline Validation and Continuous Validation for 21 CFR Part 11 applications
  • Everything in between that will fit the particular organization... there is no one way to be agile

From concept to release, we love the software development process. Contact us today. We would be happy to discuss your SDLC and compliance needs.