Flags: An overview of SDLC drift assistant

Flags is the drift assistant for the scrum team; flags discover 4 types of drifts in the system:

1. Process drift: Deviation from established processes causing Missed deadlines, Wasted effort, and Reduced team efficiency.

2. Technology drift: Technology and code quality drifts resulting in Increased debugging time, Delayed delivery, and Higher technical debt.

3. Compliance drift: Missed adherence to infosec, regulatory standards resulting in audit risks.

4. Feature drift: Deviation from PRDs, User stories, Feedback resulting in Unplanned work, Delayed launches & Unrealized customer expectations.

The aforementioned drifts are surfaced as flags on the platform, the user can view the flags either by drift types or by classification.

Flags by drift:

1. Process flags: Process flags are assistants for Scrum masters/project managers helping them fill process gaps without any additional effort e.g. automated effort estimation, prediction of build issue delays, prediction of effort overruns, focus on authenticity of work done in a pull request/branch, etc. 

2. Feature flags: Feature flags are assistants for product owners and developers enabling them write high quality requirements, discover quality lapses in UI/UX designs, plan their builds, fix the deviations between specification and code,  etc.  

3. Technology flags: Technology Flags are assists for developers and development leads, enable developers to align their code as per the enterprise standards and aid development leads to perform high quality code reviews in an environment of their choice e.g. VS Code or Git repositories. 

The aforementioned flags can also be viewed from the lens of customer feedback or requirements mishaps, code quality, deployment status and effort estimations.