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Accelerating Payment Innovation: Spec-Driven Development with AWS Kiro

What this session is about

Australian Payments Plusoperator of Australia's critical payment infrastructure including eftpos, BPAY, and NPP, processing millions of daily transactionstransformed their development practices by adopting Spec-Driven Development using AWS Kiro. AP+ manages the payment rails connecting banks, merchants, and consumers throughout Australia. Through intensive Event-Driven Architecture bootcamps and hands-on training, engineering teams now independently run development workshops every two weeks, accelerating delivery of payment platform innovations while maintaining the highest security and compliance standards required for national financial infrastructure. Learn the practical framework for building development velocity in regulated environments.

Playbook

Editorial commentary · what to actually do about this on Monday

The concept
Australian Payments Plus (eftpos, BPAY, NPP) adopting spec-driven development with AWS Kiro. Engineering teams now run their own bi-weekly Event-Driven Architecture bootcamps. Critical national financial infrastructure.
Why it matters
Critical national infrastructure proving spec-driven works in highly regulated environments. The strongest possible validation of the methodology.
The hard parts
Compliance review for AI-generated code. Audit trails for spec → code lineage.
Playbook moves
(1) Capture the spec. (2) Sign the spec. (3) Generate from signed specs only. The signed spec becomes the auditable artefact.
The surprise
Bi-weekly bootcamps run by engineering teams (not central training) is the *sustainability mechanism*. Self-replicating training scales without HR involvement. That's the org-design move that makes AI-DLC stick — without it, the methodology decays. ---

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