HOW WE WORK

Ship value faster with Narrative Driven Development.

Our proprietary Narrative Driven Development (NDD) methodology creates alignment and eliminates ambiguity, accelerating delivery by 400% and ensuring every feature drives real business value.

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BENEFITS OF Narrative driven Development

Transform collaboration into impactful software delivery.

Modern software teams struggle with misaligned requirements, unclear priorities, and slow decision-making. NDD fixes this by structuring development as a narrative-driven process, keeping business goals, user experience, and technical execution fully aligned.

Accelerates delivery by 4x

By aligning teams on clear, outcome-driven narratives, NDD removes inefficiencies, enabling faster development cycles.

Improves collaboration across teams

Encourages cross-functional teams to work together seamlessly through shared understanding and continuous feedback loops.

Ensures business goals are always front and centre

Keeps development focused on delivering measurable business value by tying every feature to strategic objectives.

Reduces ambiguity and speeds up decision-making

Provides clarity on priorities and requirements, minimizing rework and accelerating informed decision-making.
HOW DOES Narrative driven Development WORK?

Start with the outcome and work backwards to build your narrative.

1. Start with the Outcome:
Define the business goal and user experience that the feature or project must achieve.

2. Build the Narrative:
Frame the story from the user's perspective, capturing each step they take in a structured timeline.

3. Define Interfaces & System Actions
Map out what the user sees (interfaces) and what the system does (actions) at each step.

4. Explore Edge Cases & Alternate Paths:
Identify different scenarios, handling failures, forks, and alternative user journeys.

5. Align Teams & Deliver Faster
With a clear narrative, teams work in sync, reducing rework and accelerating development.

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APPLYING Narrative driven Development

NDD accelerates the Software Delivery Lifecycle

Narrative Driven Design (NDD) covers the entire software delivery lifecycle, enabling continuous iterations for scalable, high-quality solutions. Its four phases form a dynamic flywheel, where each output feeds the next. While shown sequentially, NDD relies on continuous feedback within and across phases to drive alignment and improvement.

NDD: APIs, Supergraphs and EventDriven Architecture

NDD is an essential tool in designing and developing APIS that utilise Supergraphs and Event-Driven design patterns.

Ensures schema consistency by mapping user journeys to API interactions.

Defines explicit events & reactions, keeping business logic central.

Creates a single source of truth for product, engineering, and design.

Visualizes state transitions & triggers for better predictability and optimization.

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METHODOLOGIES

NDD complements industry leading software design and development methodologies.

NDD integrates with and complements established methodologies, including Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Spec Driven Development.

Domain Driven Design: DDD aligns software with business needs by fostering collaboration between domain and technical experts. It provides a solid foundation for tackling complex problems and designing effective solutions.

Test Driven Development: TDD integrates design, coding, and testing, ensuring high software quality from the start. It boosts development confidence, reduces debugging time, and lowers long-term costs.

Behaviour Driven Development: BDD promotes collaboration between developers, QAs, and business stakeholders, ensuring software meets expectations. It prioritizes high-value features while reducing budget risks and improving stability.

Spec Driven Development: Xolvio’s unique approach centers on specifications to drive the entire development lifecycle. It enhances speed, quality, and alignment by integrating BDD, TDD, UX, and project management.

Targeted Quality Assurance: A rigorous focus on specs, automated/manual testing, and advanced techniques like visual regression and contract testing ensures flawless, future-proof software.

Pragmatic Agility: Using Kanban and flexible architecture, we adapt to changing needs while maintaining continuous improvement through evolutionary design and Kaizen practices.

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Why Xolvio

Proven results across across highly regulated sectors in complex technology environments.

Specialists in GraphQL & Event-Driven Architecture

As Apollo GraphQL’s official professional services partner, we help enterprises design, implement, and scale Supergraphs efficiently​. Our expertise spans GraphQL federation, event-driven systems, and API modernization.
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Proven Results Across Industries:

We’ve helped Fortune 500 companies in finance, healthcare, automotive, and retail achieve real-time data access, improved system resilience, and faster development cycles.
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Alignment Through Narrative Driven Development

We use our proprietary methodology, Narrative Driven Development, to bridge business and technical goals, and hands-on enablement to upskill your teams.
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Industry Leadership & Future-Ready Solutions

We stay ahead of industry trends, contributing to open-source projects, thought leadership, and best practices for GraphQL and event-driven ecosystems​.
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Security & Performance Focused

Through our partnership with Escape, we integrate GraphQL security reviews and automated compliance into CI/CD pipelines.
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Trusted Partner for Scalable API Solutions

As Apollo GraphQL’s official professional services partner, we collaborate with Apollo, Escape, and Kurrent to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance API architectures. Our expertise in GraphQL Supergraphs, event-driven systems, and API security ensures seamless integration and long-term success.
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