Case Study - Framework-First DX Assessment — Developer Experience Analysis & Strategic Recommendations
A structured, repeatable methodology for evaluating developer documentation against real usage. Combines AI acceleration with human judgment to deliver fast, reliable insights and implementation-ready recommendations.
- Client
- Framework-First DX
- Year
- Service
- Developer Experience Methodology
The Challenge
Documentation reviews are often ad hoc—hard to compare, slow to repeat, and difficult to tie to business outcomes. Teams need a structured, repeatable, and transparent approach that surfaces high-impact fixes quickly and supports quarterly trend tracking.
What I Did
- Methodology Design
- Quality Gates
- Developer Experience
- AI Acceleration
- Created a five-phase framework (scope → evidence → drills → synthesis → validation).
- Embedded quality controls: primary-source verification and reproducible scoring.
- Positioned AI as accelerator, human as architect—speed without losing judgment.
- Validated the approach by applying it to live documentation (including Anthropic).
- Phases in the framework
- 5Phases in the framework
- Than typical manual reviews
- 2× fasterThan typical manual reviews
- Quarterly tracking ready
- RepeatableQuarterly tracking ready
- Primary-source verification
- 100%Primary-source verification
Results
- Delivered a consulting-grade, repeatable assessment method for documentation.
- Reduced assessment cycles from weeks to hours while improving coverage.
- Produced implementation-ready roadmaps with priorities, effort, and metrics.
- Enabled ongoing DX governance via consistent rubric and drills.
Portfolio Artifact
Title: Framework-First DX Assessment — Developer Experience Analysis & Strategic Recommendations
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Provenance: Authored by Philip GeLinas (Vectorworx). Compiled Aug 2025.
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