Use Case Development Orchestration

The Development and Orchestration phase is where enriched use case blueprints are transformed into fully deployable digital solutions. This phase includes three critical stages:

1. Use Case Design & Prototype

2. Use Case Development

3. Use Case Deployment

Powered by Calibo’s Digital Innovation Sandbox, this traditionally complex and time-intensive phase is radically simplified. The Sandbox automates routine tasks, enforces standardization, and accelerates delivery by providing an integrated environment for business, engineering, and data teams.

Development follows a structured four-phase workflow within the Sandbox:

Structured Four-Phase Workflow in Calibo's Digital Innovation Sandbox

In this unified environment, teams can:

  • Define and manage business requirements for the use case and its associated features.

  • Upload and organize design artifacts, including wireframes, microcopies, and architecture diagrams for cross-functional collaboration.

  • Develop and manage source code using pre-integrated repositories and toolchains.

  • Deploy applications across environments using Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift, with automated infrastructure provisioning powered by Terraform.

  • Build and orchestrate data pipelines to ingest, transform, and validate data from disparate sources—enabling high-quality, analytics-ready outputs that serve as a Single Source of Truth (SSOT) for your applications.

  • Create and track agile artifacts such as epics, stories, and features from within the Sandbox.

  • Manage documentation via seamless integration with tools like Confluence.

  • Plan releases and manage release trains to deliver enhancements in an iterative, agile-driven cadence.

With over 100 pre-integrated, best-in-class tools covering front-end, back-end, DevOps, and data technologies, the Sandbox enables teams to move from idea to market-ready solution in weeks—not months.

The result? Faster time to value, reduced costs, empowered teams, and a competitive edge in delivering digital innovation at scale.

Since the use case has already been verified and aligned with stakeholders, the Development Orchestration phase will have the developers and architects working together to come up with the solutioned MVP in alignment with the requirements shown by the Product Owner. Within this overall orchestration, engineering leaders, Developers, architects, QA, and testers will all play a part in separate stages, to release the use case in a timely and efficient manner.

Goals

Outcome

  • Coordinate the entire lifecycle of use case execution across definition, design, development, and deployment.

  • Ensure cross-functional collaboration between business, product, UX, engineering, and DevOps teams.

  • Promote reuse of assets and architectural consistency across use cases and portfolios.

  • Enable automated tracking, validation, and deployment through toolchain integrations.

  • Support feature-level execution to deliver incremental value with measurable outcomes.

  • Accelerated Time-to-Value, i.e., through rapid rollout of use cases through streamlined development and deployment cycles.

  • Cross-functional Alignment: Unified workflows that bring business, design, and engineering teams onto a shared platform.

  • Operational Efficiency

  • Continuous feedback and test automation integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

  • Real-time dashboards for monitoring status, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder alignment.

 

Before You Begin: Initial Setup for Use Case Development in Calibo Digital Innovation Sandbox

Before diving into the Design and Prototype phase, ensure the foundational setup within the Calibo Digital Innovation Sandbox is complete. The following initial tasks establish the governance, access, and tool integrations required for streamlined and secure collaborative development:

Calibo provisions the Sandbox environment. The Administrator completes the initial configuration, including SSO setup, importing users from Active Directory, activating user accounts, and defining general settings.

The Administrator allocates system-defined roles to users based on their responsibilities and the required access levels in the configured tools. If additional granularity is needed, custom roles can be configured and assigned.

The Administrator creates teams and associates them with the use cases. These teams comprise users collaborating on specific use case initiatives.

Connection details for required tools—such as Jira, Confluence, GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Qualys, Databricks, Snowflake, and Qlik Sense, among others—are configured. All integrations are tested and validated from within the Sandbox interface.

The Administrator creates a policy template for the portfolio or use case being developed. By enforcing a policy template on a use case or portfolio in Calibo’s Digital Innovation Sandbox, you can make only standardized tools, technologies, and deployment workflow available to teams, and thus, ensure adherence to organizational policies, prevent addition of unwanted tools to your tech stack, and enhance security and compliance standards.

The Administrator creates workflow templates defining the approval process for critical actions (such as portfolio creation, use case creation, feature creation, and technology deployment) in Sandbox.

The Portfolio Owner creates a portfolio in Sandbox to organize use cases by business theme or customer segment.

The Product Owner creates a use case in Sandbox and, in collaboration with the Solution Architect, creates features within the use case. Within each feature, the required phases—Define, Design, Develop, and Deploy are added.

The relevant policy template is applied to restrict tool access and enforce standardized practices throughout the development cycle.

Relevant workflow templates are attached to the use case to enforce gated approvals aligned with enterprise governance.

The Product Owner creates epics, features, stories, and tasks in the integrated Agile board, all from within the Sandbox interface.

With these steps completed, the Sandbox is ready for collaborative use case development. Let’s now dive into the Use Case Design and Prototype phase.

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