Small Business MBA

The Vibe-Driven Development Cycle

SaaS Teams Are Looking at Alternatives to Traditional Planning

The future of SaaS development isn’t more planning — it’s smarter responsiveness.

Software development has always wrestled with the tension between structure and intuition. While enterprise teams layer on process frameworks and planning ceremonies, a growing number of SaaS developers are discovering that their most productive coding happens when they follow what the community calls “vibe coding” — development guided by feel, momentum, and contextual awareness rather than rigid sprint planning.

This approach represents more than developer preference. It reflects a fundamental shift in how successful SaaS teams balance the competing demands of rapid iteration, technical debt management, and feature delivery in environments where market feedback cycles measure in days, not quarters.

Model-Agnostic Protocol (MAP)

Reframing the Planning Problem

Traditional software planning assumes predictable work in predictable environments. Teams estimate story points, commit to sprint goals, and…