Atomic primitives in the time & lineage family. Click any tile for the live render, the spec it was built from, and the code that fell out.
Intent-driven engineering
Historical marker · filed record
Specs are dated. Decisions are filed.
Era chips
Pinned to the rule
Era transition
Waterfall
1956
Agile
2001
Era overlap
Eras coexist; they don't replace cleanly.
paradigm shift
Lineage segment
Duration 25 years
Lineage fork
Lineage merge
Epoch boundary
Chapter break
Retrospective label
Waterfall
Predecessor link
Prev era Waterfall 1956Successor link
Next era DoCoDeGo 2026Pillar emphasis
Signature tool
Waterfall Gantt ChartIf you remember the era, you remember the bar chart it lived on.
Waterfall — anti-pattern
Consequence: six-month specs landed obsolete on day one of build.
Era handoff
Adoption at peak
Roughly four of every five engineering teams ran some flavour of it.
Cost equation
Agile — residual pain
Ceremony without specsThe next era was carved from this remaining friction.
Glossary row
sprint Agile A fixed-length cadence of work — typically 1–4 weeks — bounded by planning and review ceremonies.
“You build it, you run it.
Era glyph
Waterfall
Era glyph
Agile
Era glyph
DoCoDeGo
Paradigm spectrum
Decade pip
Anchored at decade resolution; finer years live on the era card.
Survivor
Originated in Agile; outlived its parent paradigm.
Extinct
Cause: Specs went stale before the gate convened.
parent era · Waterfall
Borrowed practice
Inheritance, not invention — credit travels with the practice.
Paradigm lineage · 70 years
Predict → Adapt → Intend
DoCoDeGo releases
4 versions
Release cadence
We ship when validation passes — not on a schedule
Version pins
4 pins
Single release
Cadence strip
Steady tempo — one release per month
Commit pip
a3f9d12
gate spec-linter on the prebuild step
Deploy promotion
Git tag
Immutable nameplate
Branch fork
feat/spec-linter-gate
branch
Revision counter
2026-05-21
78% through draft cycle
Channel ladder
Deploys / week
8w window
Sequence step
Tick ruler
Commit author pip
tighten ICS threshold to 65 on the prebuild gate
Release note
compendium auditor gains a strict-important gate
Patch pin
2026-05-22
fix: footer copyright year
Unscheduled release
Linked incident: INC-0317
Cadence target
Version bump
MINOR
reach 1500 audited atoms across all twelve zones.
Deploy window
Open 09:00 — 16:00 UTC
Release train
auditor: integration-archaeology rules
Recent tags
Release frequency
Inter-release gap
target ≤ 7 days
412 reached
Rollout row
Retired
on 2026-06-30
DoCoDeGo is in Alpha. The framework is documented, the practices are battle-tested at small scale, and the next release is being shaped in public.
If it produces anything, it should produce engineers and teams who think more clearly about what they are building and why.
Discord is where specs are debated, the framework gets sharper, and decisions land in writing. The conversation is the artefact.