The whole dev cycle spans from ideation to running on production. Chop it up however fine you want as long as it fits your organization/team size. Company of l

The whole dev cycle spans from ideation to running on production. Chop it up however fine you want as long as it fits your organization/team size. Company of less than 5 ppl? All you need to care is whether the whole cycle is delivering something of value. Team of 5 in a 500 engineers org? All you ever have to care is a small slice of the cycle. Maybe a stage of testing, maybe an aspect of deployment, maybe a piece of user journey, maybe a feature. The gist is to know that the cycle exists and which part of the cycle matters to your team.