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Using rkito signals to plan predictable sprints and understand why delivery gets blocked.

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Delivery predictability and design approval timing.

Playbook

Product Owner Playbook

  1. 01Sprint planning: the two checks that change your estimates
  2. 02Understanding why a PR is blocked
  3. 03Reading DCS as a delivery leading indicator
  4. 04Features with architectural dependencies: the right sequence
  5. 05Quarterly: delivery health and governance correlation
  6. 06Your role in Steering
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Metrics

Four numbers to watch

IFRIntent-First Rate% of PRs with design approved before the first commit.MTTCDMean Time to Change DecisionAverage time from blocked PR to resolution.DCSDesign Conformance Score% of PRs that passed all Lens checks. The headline metric.UDRUngoverned Drift Rate% of structural changes with no approved Change Intention.
Concepts

Ideas product owners need.

CDAContinuous Design Audit

The automated, per-PR process that checks every code change against approved architectural intent at CI/CD speed — how…

PlatformArchitectural Drift

The silent, incremental divergence between agreed architectural intent and what actually ships — now accelerating as AI…

Change ControlDesign Review vs. Code Review

Code review asks whether code passes; design review asks whether a decision conforms to architectural intent — two…

Other roles

Same structure, different seat.

For CTOs

Architecture health for the board, AI governance risk, when to escalate.

For CSOs

Security conformance, audit preparation and agent risk.

For VPs of Engineering

Sprint conformance, team-level drift and process health.

For Chief architects

Lens authoring, conformance review and blocked-PR triage.

For SREs

Architectural risk, incident root cause and agent drift signals.

For Engineers

How rkito hooks into your PRs and governs your coding agents.

Predictable sprints start with visible signals.

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