Designing Ceremonies for Your Team
ForgeSDLC adoption is about covering ceremony intents with the lightest rituals that fit your context. Forge separates intent (why we meet) from fork (how you name and run the meeting), so you keep familiar labels while tightening decision quality.
The C1–C6 intent system
Six recurring intents should be covered over time—not always as six meetings, but as auditable coverage:
| Intent | Role in delivery |
|---|---|
| C1 Align | Shared understanding of scope, value, and constraints before commitment deepens |
| C2 Commit | Explicit selection of what work enters execution and under what expectations |
| C3 Sync | Short coordination on progress, dependencies, and blockers |
| C4 Inspect | Evidence-based review of outcomes against intent (demo, review, stakeholder feedback) |
| C5 Improve | Learning loop—process, quality, collaboration—fed back into future work |
| C6 Assure | Release and compliance readiness; gates that protect production and customers |
In Forge’s default mapping, these intents connect to familiar events (e.g. refinement, planning, daily sync, review, retrospective, release readiness), but your names can differ as long as the intent is satisfied.
Mapping team events to intents
Inventory recurring events and tag C1–C6 intents. Gaps reveal implicit decisions (rework and incidents). Overlaps suggest merges when the same intent is rehearsed without new inputs.
When to add or remove ceremonies
Add when decisions lack owners or evidence (often C6 pre-release, C1 before big bets). Remove or shorten rituals that yield no logged decision—status-only standups, hollow reviews. Use Versonas for targeted discipline checks instead of inflating every core meeting.
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