BrakelineFrom a repeated rollout to a better product
Two weekends. For every customer.
Brakeline took two weekends to move its warehouses to single sign-on. Kelderby faces the same process, with eighteen more sites to follow. Tom asks whether ACME can remove the repeated setup without putting every warehouse at risk at once.
TomSales
MiraSecurity
ACME is a fictional software company using Emargen.
01Initiatives · Investigate the opportunity
Bring the customer plans and the code together.
Tom opens an initiative with the problem he keeps seeing. Its agent reads Brakeline's rollout, Kelderby's plan, the sign-on checklist and the identity service's code. It uses those sources to draft the brief, then asks a question the evidence cannot decide: should a warehouse switch if it has not passed its test sign-in?
Tom · SalesFrames the improvement around customers already going through it.
One recurring problem. Four places to look.
The previous rollout
The next customer's plan
Tests before switching
How a site switches today
02Initiatives · Decide the requirements
Faster cannot mean everyone gets locked out.
Tom chooses: only warehouses whose tests passed may switch. If one has trouble, an administrator must be able to switch that warehouse back alone. The agent writes these choices into the requirements, alongside preserving active sessions. Untested sites keep their current passwords. Automatic account creation is left out: it is a separate feature, not part of this change.
Tom · SalesSets the safety conditions the implementation must meet.
The safeguards stay in the plan.
- R1
Only sites that passed their test switch.
- R2
People already signed in stay signed in.
- R3
Switch one site back independently.
03Initiatives · Approaches to implementation
Compare the options against those conditions.
At Tom's request, the agent compares a controlled switch for every tested site with batches spread over a weekend. A focused code investigation checks whether one identity connection can serve them all and whether existing sessions survive. Both are confirmed. The batch proposal, as written, misses the test check and only partly addresses the repeated rollout. The controlled switch is chosen.
Tom · SalesAsks the agent to evaluate both approaches before planning delivery.
A choice with the checks behind it.
One controlled switch, from the rehearsal list.
Batches over a weekend; the proposed plan misses the test check.
04Initiatives · Prepare for approval
Make the improvement specific enough to approve.
Tom asks the agent to break the chosen approach into delivery slices. First comes the rehearsal list; then the switch, individual rollback and manager notifications. The published plan shows the requirements, chosen approach and checks together. Mira has reviewed the sign-in changes. Approval is still pending, and a question about where notifications get manager details remains visible.
Mira · SecurityHas reviewed the security implications; the plan still awaits approval.
Two slices. One explicit approval.
- 01
Rehearse every warehouse · ACM-294
- 02
Switch tested sites, with a way back · ACM-295
Try it on a repeated setup.
Pick something your team sets up the same way for every customer. See how the evidence becomes a plan with its safeguards in it.
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