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Becoming an E-shaped Developer for the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (ADLC)
Build, measure and harden an AI agent with Claude Code, from user need to production.
This book is 79% completeLast updated on 2026-11-08
ELIZA fooled people in 1966. Here’s how to build an AI agent that doesn’t, and prove it.
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Most AI tutorials stop at the demo. This guide shows the whole way from a user's need to a release you can stand behind.
You'll follow one real project, ELIZA+, from start to finish. ELIZA was the 1966 chatbot that made people believe a program understood them. Here it is rebuilt as a modern iPad agent with Claude Code. Over 9 chapters and 36 commits you'll see how to:
- Discover the need with Jobs-to-be-Done outcome statements, before choosing a model
- Build a Swift agent with memory and tools, running in the cloud and on the device
- Measure it with evals, AI judges, held-out sets and path checks
- Harden it with hacker stories inverted into tests, a crisis gate in code, and a judge that can't be talked into a better score
- Ship and learn from what users tell you, and turn it into the next round of needs and tests
The theme is the E-shaped developer. A T-shaped developer has one deep skill. An E-shaped developer goes deep in every phase of the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (ADLC), with AI as the assistant and the human still accountable. Every chapter ends with an Agentic Ways of Working box and a clear note of what you stay accountable for.
It's written for developers, product owners and agile coaches who want to build with AI agents without giving up quality, safety or judgment. Every step comes with real screenshots, real eval results and the full commit history.
Written for the Scrum Inc. RGAP Charity Fundraiser. Proceeds go to MSF (Doctors Without Borders).
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Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as an Agentic Ways of Working Product and AI Coach. His motto is: be at the center of value. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. He has been translating her book on Mobius Loop to German and he has been organizing several charity fundraiser training during pandemic and Ukraine crisis (giving to MSF). Thoralf recently became a genAI Practitioner Trainer for Scrum Inc and has been a Neural Network & AI geek since studying at MIT and is currently using AI for better Discovery using JTBD. Reach out for speakerships at Business Agility Meetup Berlin (#BAMBER).
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