Product-Specific Workflows in Calibo Accelerate Platform

Product-specific workflows in the Calibo Accelerate platform allow customized approval processes tailored to individual products and their development life cycle. Unlike global workflows, which apply universally, product-specific workflows are designed and managed within the Workflow Designer at the product level.

Key Benefits of Product-Specific Workflows

By creating and managing workflows at the product level, you can achieve the following:

  • Flexibility: Product teams can create workflows according to specific product requirements of their product development process.

  • Targeted Approvals: By predefining approval stages and approvers in a template, you can ensure that approvals are handled by relevant stakeholders based on the product’s phase and needs. This reduces unnecessary delays and improves accountability.

  • Enhanced Collaboration: Product-specific workflows facilitate seamless coordination between cross-functional teams by ensuring that all relevant stakeholders—such as product managers, designers, developers, and security teams—are involved in the approval process. This structured communication reduces bottlenecks, promotes transparency, and enhances overall efficiency.

  • Granular Control: You can define approval workflows for different stages of the product life cycle. This allows granular control over the development process by ensuring structured validation and oversight at each phase.

Where Are Product-Specific Workflows Applied?

For a feature within a product, you can assign product-specific workflow templates for key events across the development phases:

  • Define Phase: You can enable a workflow for business requirement creation and validation. This ensures that business requirements go through an approval process aligning them with project goals and strategic objectives before moving forward.

  • Design Phase: You can enable a workflow for the validation of design artifacts. This ensures they meet quality and compliance standards, preventing inconsistencies and ensuring design integrity.

  • Develop Phase: You can enable a workflow for adding or removing technologies within a feature of a product. This helps you maintain stability and adherence to organizational policies.

  • Deploy Phase: You can enable workflows to control technology deployments, promotions, and Terraform run executions in various deployment stages of a feature.

Product owners and teams can create and manage workflow templates within the Workflow Designer in the Calibo Accelerate platform. These workflows help enforce structured approvals within individual product teams while aligning with the organization's broader governance policies.

Start by configuring a product-specific workflow template. For details, see Designing a Product-Specific Workflow Template.

Then, enable a global workflow for an event and assign your workflow template. For details, see Enabling Product-Specific Workflows.