What is the Agentic Development Lifecycle and do you need it?
The author argues that the Agentic Development Lifecycle (ADLC) maps almost stage for stage onto the existing software development lifecycle (SDLC). He says Agentforce agents are deployed as metadata, so existing release and version control practices apply, and that metadata types have changed over the past year, such as Agent Planner bundles becoming Agent Script. He recommends limiting agents to analysis and building while deterministic CI/CD, testing, review and backups handle the rest.
What changes for platform teams
Platform teams running Salesforce should keep applying existing release governance, change failure rate and DORA measurement to AI-produced changes, and track Agentforce metadata format changes in release notes. Nothing new is shipped that changes tooling.
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