Who belongs here
Heads of engineering and IT, platform teams, developers, solution and enterprise architects, business analysts, and project, programme and delivery managers.
Proposition
For engineers, architects, business analysts, project managers and IT and platform teams. AlisX brings structure to the whole delivery lifecycle, from stakeholder discovery and architecture decisions to requirements, working software and feedback. Shared project context, reusable skills and Cloud delivery tools help every role move faster, with your standards built in and people in control.
The door
Skill Store, Alis Ideate Projects, Alis Build Environments, Alis Build Workstations, Alis Build DBD, Alis Ideate Interviews, Alis Ideate ArtifactsThe problem to go in with. Faster code generation exposes bottlenecks across discovery, requirements, architecture, reviews and releases, while business teams also need a safe route to production.
The tools to go in with. Skill Store · Alis Ideate Projects · Alis Build Environments · Alis Build Workstations · Alis Build DBD · Alis Ideate Interviews · Alis Ideate Artifacts
What they get. Give engineers, architects, analysts and project managers shared context and repeatable delivery methods.
Ask first
- On the last change, where did the time go between understanding the need and a release people could use?
- How do architects, analysts and delivery managers carry requirements, decisions and user feedback into the next iteration?
- What must business-built tools meet to use your production path, and where is that standard hard to apply today?
Lead with
Choose one delivery slice, use Alis Ideate Interviews to close a requirements or feedback gap, then review the definition-to-release path against the team's standards.
Backup: Publish an approved pattern in the Skill Store and test a business team's self-service build in Alis Build Workstations and Alis Build Environments, with Alis Build DBD review gates.
Demonstrate or verify
- Trace an interview finding into a requirement, architecture decision, acceptance check and reviewed release.
- Show who owns the platform standards and who approves production; do not equate faster coding with improved delivery performance.
Further, Faster, Safer
Further: Give every delivery role a stronger starting point. Equip architects, analysts, project managers and engineers with shared context, reusable methods and Cloud workstations, so good practice carries from discovery into working software.
Skill Store · Alis Ideate Projects · Alis Build Environments · Alis Build Workstations · Alis Build DBD
Faster: Spend less time gathering input and chasing alignment. Interview stakeholders in parallel, prepare decisions before workshops and turn feedback into the next delivery step, with shared context ready for people and agents.
Alis Ideate Interviews · Alis Ideate Projects · Alis Ideate Artifacts · Alis Build Workstations
Safer: Keep decisions and releases under control. Trace requirements and decisions to stakeholder evidence, surface disagreement before work proceeds, and keep production behind reviewed builds and explicit human approval.
Alis Ideate Projects · Alis Ideate Artifacts · Alis Build Environments · Alis Build DBD
Use cases
Analysis & architecture
Stakeholders & processes
- Discover stakeholder needs and challenge internal assumptions
- Gather input before a workshop so the session can focus on decisions
- Map a process or customer journey across teams
Tools: Alis Ideate Interviews · Alis Ideate Projects · Alis Ideate Artifacts
Invite the people who perform, depend on or are affected by the work, including external stakeholders where appropriate. Use plain-language interviews with follow-ups on concrete examples, exceptions and workarounds. For workshops, prepare a pre-read of agreement, disagreement and decisions needed. For process mapping, use walkthroughs or screen sharing where suitable and compare triggers, steps, handoffs and exceptions across teams. Produce a reviewable map or findings brief linked to source contributions. Use sanitised examples and explain how responses will be shared.
Business cases & requirements
- Build a business case from sponsor and stakeholder evidence
- Compare vendors or solution options against agreed needs
- Turn cross-team needs into requirements and an RFP brief
Tools: Alis Ideate Interviews · Alis Ideate Projects · Alis Ideate Artifacts · Skill Store
Gather sponsors, affected teams and decision-makers separately so their assumptions and differences are visible. For business cases, probe costs, benefits, risks and the evidence behind figures. For option evaluation, separate evidence from preference and capture trade-offs. For requirements and RFPs, distinguish requested features from underlying needs, include non-functional constraints and trace criteria to their source. Produce a business case, decision record or requirements brief for accountable people to review. Do not invent ROI or select a supplier automatically.
Architecture & solution design
- Review an architecture document or engineering framework with stakeholders
- Specify an AI agent or solution with the people its work affects
- Record architecture trade-offs and unresolved decisions
Tools: Alis Ideate Interviews · Alis Ideate Projects · Alis Ideate Artifacts · Skill Store
Attach the architecture document, framework, process notes or draft specification to the shared project. Interview reviewers about specific sections, applicability, constraints and objections. For an agent or solution specification, include requesters and upstream and downstream stakeholders; establish use cases, instructions, required tools, failure cases, guardrails and evaluation criteria. Produce section-level feedback, a specification or an architecture decision record. Preserve minority concerns and open questions. The responsible architect or review body makes the decision.
Delivery & learning
Planning & coordination
- Turn agreed requirements into delivery-ready work and acceptance criteria
- Gather recurring project updates before the status meeting
- Surface cross-team dependencies, risks and decisions needing attention
Tools: Alis Ideate Interviews · Alis Ideate Projects · Alis Ideate Artifacts
For planning, carry the source requirements, constraints and open questions into small work items with acceptance criteria. For recurring check-ins, interview team or area leads about progress since the last review, blockers, dependencies and underestimated risks. Follow up on vague or conflicting updates and prepare a concise briefing that distinguishes reported facts, risks and decisions for the meeting. Define the review cadence and who schedules it. Do not claim automatic project-system integration, verified real-time status or that AI assigns accountable owners without agreement.
Prototype & release feedback
- Gather prototype and concept feedback from the people who will use it
- Interview users after each release to shape the next increment
- Turn feedback into prioritised changes with clear acceptance criteria
Tools: Alis Ideate Interviews · Alis Ideate Artifacts · Alis Ideate Projects
Share the working prototype, screens or concept in an interview with intended users, including people who did not commission it. Ask what they expected, where they got stuck, missing capability and what would prevent adoption. Separate usability problems from capability gaps and combine feedback with supplied usage or outcome evidence. Prioritise the next small increment and define how to validate it. An interview does not itself provide product analytics or prove acceptance.
Change & retrospectives
- Assess change readiness and buy-in before a rollout
- Gather candid retrospective input from every team member
- Turn lessons learned into improvements to delivery standards
Tools: Alis Ideate Interviews · Alis Ideate Projects · Alis Ideate Artifacts · Skill Store
For change readiness, ask affected teams how the change alters their work, what they need to stop or learn and where the plan underestimates friction. For retrospectives, gather individual accounts of what helped, what got in the way and what should change. Preserve shared and minority views, then agree actions and a review point. Explain attribution and sharing before collecting candid input; aggregate reports where appropriate but do not promise anonymity or confidentiality the configured process cannot provide. Publish reviewed improvements as reusable skills.
Platforms & self-service
Development & integration
- Build a service from approved templates and API contracts
- Run development agents in persistent Cloud workstations
- Give coding agents shared requirements and architecture context
Tools: Alis Ideate Projects · Skill Store · Alis Build Workstations · Alis Build DBD
Identify the requirements, architecture decisions, reusable engineering skills, typed service contracts and persistent workspaces needed for this task. Explain how they fit the existing development workflow and identify integration work explicitly. Keep business context and acceptance criteria available to both engineers and agents.
Developer experience & golden paths
- Interview developers to prioritise platform friction and onboarding fixes
- Publish a golden path for a new app, service or agent
- Replace repeated environment setup with an approved self-service workflow
Tools: Alis Ideate Interviews · Skill Store · Alis Build Environments · Alis Build Workstations · Alis Build DBD
Treat developers as platform users. Interview them about waiting, repeated setup and unclear standards, then prioritise one journey from first login to first reviewed release. Combine reusable skills, approved environments and repeatable build steps into a golden path. Identify required integrations and human review points. Gather feedback after improving the journey.
Quality & release
- Turn the definition of done into reusable review and test skills
- Take an AI-built prototype through testing and a reviewed release
- Standardise deployment plans and production approvals
Tools: Skill Store · Alis Build Environments · Alis Build DBD
Define tests, security checks and acceptance evidence appropriate to the service. Distinguish instructions in reusable skills from enforced controls. Explain versioned builds, deployment-plan review and explicit human approval for production, with owners for shared standards and reviews of changes.
Business self-service
- Agree what business teams can build and when engineering should help
- Build a departmental app from engineering-approved skills
- Give business-built tools an owner, support plan and feedback loop
Tools: Alis Ideate Interviews · Alis Ideate Projects · Skill Store · Alis Build Environments · Alis Build DBD
Interview business users and engineering to establish the problem, data sensitivity, criticality and integration complexity. Set a self-service boundary and escalation points. Use approved skills and environments for the build, with application tests, access review and human approval before production. Agree ownership, support and ongoing user feedback. Do not imply that a prototype is already production-ready or that these tools automatically enforce support processes.
Invitation
Bring the work that keeps delivery waiting. A workshop that needs better input. Requirements nobody agrees on. An architecture review, a stalled release or a status meeting that takes hours to prepare. Start with one step and turn what works into a method the next team can reuse.
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