How Spec-Driven Development Helped an SAP Team Move 71% Faster

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An 18-person SAP team cut median cycle time from 19 to about 5.5 days in five weeks. What helped most, by its own account: scoring every spec before any ABAP.
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An 18-person SAP team cut the median cycle time of its implementation phase from 19 days to about 5.5 in five weeks. The team's own answer to what helped most was not AI in the ABAP but a gate one step earlier: an AI skill scores every Jira spec against a 10-point SAP rubric, and anything below 8 goes back to its author. This post shares the rubric, a bounced ticket before and after, the incident agent, the pairing rule and a one-day team format.