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Daksh — Structured Workflow Engine for Product Development

From Vision to Execution with Traceability

Product development often fails due to vague goals, scope drift, and poor handoff between business and engineering. Daksh provides a disciplined, staged workflow that locks vision, maps flows, defines requirements, and translates them into modular specs, epics, and tasks. Each stage enforces explicit gates with measurable success criteria, ensuring traceability and safe execution from idea to delivery.

What the Solution Does

  • Aligns stakeholders on product vision, constraints, and KPIs.
  • Defines clear user journeys (happy flows) before formalizing requirements.
  • Translates flows into business requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Maps requirements to modular technical specifications.
  • Generates epics, tasks, and safe execution protocols with machine-readable artifacts.
  • Enforces human review gates to prevent scope drift and unsafe automation.

Core Capabilities

  • Vision Locking: Establishes the “why” with goals, personas, success metrics, and scope boundaries.
  • Flow Mapping: Creates clear happy‑path user journeys that drive requirements.
  • Requirement Translation: Outputs BRD-style requirements and acceptance tests for clarity.
  • Spec & Architecture Mapping: Connects business rules to modular designs, APIs, and interfaces.
  • Epic & Task Generation: Produces machine-readable epic outlines and decomposes them into tasks.
  • Safe Execution: Prescribes stepwise test‑first implementation, commits, and rollback procedures.
  • Contribution & Versioning: Guides contributors and preserves reproducibility with semantic versioning.

How Daksh Works

  1. Vision Doc (10): Lock purpose, goals, metrics, and constraints.
  2. Happy Flow (20): Define end‑to‑end user journeys in prose and diagrams.
  3. Business Requirements (30): Translate flows into testable BRD‑style requirements.
  4. Modules & Specs (40): Map requirements to modular technical architecture.
  5. Epics Outline (45): Generate YAML schema with priorities and ownership.
  6. Module Epics (50): Detail epic documents with dependencies and success criteria.
  7. Task Generation (60): Decompose epics into parent + subtasks mapped to files and tests.
  8. Execution Protocol (70): Enforce safe, test‑first implementation with CI and rollback rules.
  9. Contribution & Versioning: Maintain guidelines and version history for reproducibility.

Business Value

  • Prevent Scope Drift: Each gate enforces stakeholder‑aligned success criteria.
  • Ensure Clarity: Flows and requirements reduce ambiguity for designers and engineers.
  • Improve Safety: Task decomposition and gated automation avoid unsafe bulk edits.
  • Increase Efficiency: Bridges vision to execution with minimal loss of intent.
  • Enable Traceability: Every artifact is linked from vision through to execution.

Example Architecture

flowchart TD
    A[Vision Doc] --> B[Happy Flow]
    B --> C[Business Requirements]
    C --> D[Modules & Specs]
    D --> E[Epics Outline]
    E --> F[Module Epic]
    F --> G[Task Generation]
    G --> H[Execution Protocol]
    H --> I[Delivered Product]

Scalability & Adaptability

Daksh scales across teams and products by enforcing the same stage-gate discipline. Artifacts are modular, machine-readable, and versioned, making it adaptable for startups or enterprises needing repeatable, safe product development cycles.

Getting Started

  1. Draft a vision doc with problem, goals, personas, and constraints.
  2. Define happy‑path flows for top user journeys.
  3. Translate flows into requirements, then map them to modules and specs.
  4. Generate epics and tasks with YAML schema.
  5. Execute safely using the gated stepwise protocol.