Agile Delivery of a Regulated Digital Therapeutic App
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Problem
Nine-month regulated release cycles
A digital therapeutics company building a prescription behavioural-health app was trapped in nine-month waterfall release cycles. Its quality management system assumed big-bang releases, so every change dragged a full manual documentation and validation pass behind it. Patient-experience fixes queued for months, engineers spent more time on paperwork than product, and competitors were shipping monthly.
Solution
Agile inside design controls
We restructured delivery into agile release trains that live inside the company's design controls rather than around them. Requirements, risk items and test cases were linked in a single traceability system, the CI pipeline was rebuilt to generate validation evidence automatically on every build, and documentation templates were mapped to sprint outputs so each six-week train ends audit-ready.
Measurable Impact
What changed after launch
Release cadence improved from one validated release every 9 months to six-week validated release trains
47 patient-experience improvements shipped in the first year, up from 6 the year before
Per-release documentation effort cut by roughly 60% through automated requirements-to-test traceability
Full regression validation reduced from 3 weeks of manual testing to an overnight automated suite
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