Launch of 'GoDD Lab': An AI-Driven Lab-Type Development Service for Low-Cost, Rapid, and Continuous Development

Background: The difficulty of building a continuous development structure

ripla has historically supported client companies in product development, business system development, and Digital Transformation (DX) promotion, primarily through scratch development by members originating from IT operating companies.

In recent years, enterprises have seen a rapid increase in themes that require development, such as business system development, legacy system improvements, SaaS/product development, generative AI application, and new business development. On the other hand, as the number of development themes increases, the following challenges have become apparent:

- The need for estimation, ordering, and team building every time new or additional development is required.
- Significant time spent on requirement definition and specification adjustments, delaying the start of development.
- High reliance on external partners due to a lack of sufficient internal development resources.
- Difficulty in responding flexibly to specification changes and improvement requests under fixed-price development contracts.
- The desire to proceed with continuous improvement development, which tends to incur high costs.
- The inability to accumulate business and specification understanding because development partners change frequently.
- Scattered specifications and feedback, leading to confusion about what the latest requirements are.

In particular, in order to continuously improve systems in alignment with changes in business and operations, rather than one-off contract development, it is necessary to have a development structure that can continuously cycle through specification organization, implementation, testing, and improvement while accumulating business and operational understanding.

Therefore, ripla has launched 'GoDD Lab', a service that utilizes the AI-driven development framework 'GoDD' to provide a continuous development structure at a low cost and with short delivery times.

What is GoDD Lab?

GoDD Lab is a lab-type development service utilizing AI-driven development. Depending on the client's business challenges and development themes, it builds a development structure combining Project Managers (PMs), engineers, and an AI-driven development environment, continuously supporting the process from requirements organization to design, implementation, testing, and improvement.

GoDD Lab utilizes 'GoDD Notes' to consolidate project specifications and feedback, 'GoDD Dev' to support the implementation process, and 'GoDD Test' to assist with the testing process.

GoDD Notes centrally manages requirements and feedback among clients, PMs, and development teams; GoDD Dev accelerates implementation speed; and GoDD Test streamlines quality assurance. This makes it possible to rapidly advance continuous improvement development while keeping communication costs low in lab-type development.

In traditional lab-type development, productivity and quality could vary due to differences in development members' skills and communication costs. In GoDD Lab, stable development speed and quality are achieved by integrating the GoDD series into the development process.

Features of GoDD Lab

1. Centralized management of requirements, specifications, and feedback with GoDD Notes

GoDD Lab utilizes 'GoDD Notes' to consolidate project specifications and feedback.

In development projects, meeting contents, requests, specification changes, and feedback for the testing environment often get scattered across chats, minutes, documents, and ticket management tools. As a result, issues arise such as "not knowing what the latest specifications are," "unable to follow past discussions," and "feedback not being correctly communicated to the development team."

GoDD Notes centrally manages requirements, specifications, question lists, and feedback, creating a state where clients, PMs, and development teams can proceed with development while looking at the same information.

This reduces the communication costs required for confirming requirements and adjusting specifications, allowing continuous improvement development to proceed smoothly.

2. Accelerating implementation speed with GoDD Dev

GoDD Lab utilizes 'GoDD Dev' to support the implementation process.

GoDD Dev is a system that streamlines implementation, code modification, and review responses based on organized specifications and development policies. By using AI to assist with part of the implementation work that engineers traditionally performed manually, it accelerates development speed.

This makes it possible to build a small, highly productive development structure predicated on AI, rather than simply increasing the number of engineers.

3. Balancing quality assurance and reduced testing effort with GoDD Test

GoDD Lab also utilizes 'GoDD Test' to support the testing process.

GoDD Test is a system that assists with organizing test perspectives based on specifications, creating test cases, confirming operations, and verifying fixes. As development speed increases, quality confirmation and testing tend to become bottlenecks, but incorporating GoDD Test makes it easier to ensure quality without slowing down development.

This allows for short-term development while...