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Spec-Driven Development

1 Course
1 Hours
Skill IQ

Spec-driven development is a methodology for building software with AI coding agents, where a written specification becomes the primary artifact guiding implementation. Instead of accepting whatever an AI agent generates from a loose description, developers define requirements, design, and tasks upfront, producing code that reliably matches intent.\ \ This path covers the principles and workflow of spec-driven development, hands-on practice writing specs and generating implementations, and techniques for scaling the approach across teams and services. You'll work with tools including GitHub Spec Kit, AWS Kiro, and Cursor.

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What You'll Learn
  • How to apply the principles and workflow of spec-driven development to AI-assisted coding projects
  • How to write specifications and translate them into working code using tools like GitHub Spec Kit, AWS Kiro, and Cursor
  • How to scale spec-driven development across teams, services, and multi-agent workflows
  • 1. Introduction to Spec-Driven Development
  • 2. Spec-Driven Development with AI in Practice
  • 3. Scaling Spec-Driven Development with AI
Prerequisites
  • This path assumes you're a software developer with working knowledge of at least one programming language and basic familiarity with AI coding assistants. No prior experience with spec-driven development is required.
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