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12 Cognitive Automation
3 The AI SDLC Playbook
This leads us to recommend the following Playbook for organizations to use when navigating the application of
AI-inspired solutions to tasks in their SDLC. Using the approach outlined below provides Engineering teams
with a means of countering the optimistic and sometimes unrealistic expectations of their leaders and their
Subject Matter Experts with a pragmatic, yet goal-oriented approach.
Figure 5 - Playbook for AI across the SDLC
3.1 Assessing
The first step in the Assessing phase is to pinpoint the pain points within your organization’s SLDC that have
the potential for delivering significant business value. As Ben Pring refers to it as, finding your ‘X’. The reason
for this is multifold. First, obtaining the buy-in of the stakeholders who perform this task today and possess the
subject matter expertise is essential to the solution implementation. Second, with their help, the business value
can be derived to develop the business case of the solution. Lastly, understanding your specific pain point(s)
Figure 6 - Assessing and Proving Phases