VDD Development Roadmap

What exists today, what we're building, and what's planned. We don't promise dates: items move from Planned to Published as they ship.

Published

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Specification v1.0

The complete methodology.

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Delivery Bricks taxonomy

12 objective categories with explicit complexity modifiers.

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Probabilistic timelines

The P50/P85 delivery model.

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Base Unit Rate calibration

Price from real delivery history, not guessed hourly rates.

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Implementation Playbook v1.0

How an organization adopts the methodology internally.

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Onboarding presentation

The benefits of VDD and how to implement it, based on the Playbook.

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Spreadsheet templates

Ready-to-copy Brick Ledger, Rate Card, and Throughput & Forecast sheets for teams that start by hand.

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Comparisons NEW

How VDD relates to Story Points, Time & Materials, Function Points, and agentic delivery frameworks.

In development

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Brick Estimator

Breaks a user story into Bricks and counts them with the taxonomy's modifiers. Runs locally with your own API key.

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Brick Price Determiner

Calibrates and stores your Base Unit Rate for each category from your delivery history.

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UI Verification Model

A methodology extension: rules for measuring UI quality across five dimensions.

Planned
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UI Verification tool

Software that implements the UI Verification model.

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Verification Gate workflow

Assign, review, and record independent verification in one place.

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Forecast refinements

More precise delivery-date models, tuned to real project data.

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Translations

Official translations, made by us or with partners