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10–11 March 2027 · Jaarbeurs UtrechtCall for papersSpeak

Session

Should you start using spec-driven development?

Maarten van Diemen

Edition
2026
Day
Day 1
Time
16:55 · 50 min
Room
Quest

This talk was given at Future Tech 2026.

Six months after shipping a feature, a bug appears. You search through pull requests and commit messages to find why a decision was made. Scattered across old conversations, forgotten Slack threads, or locked in someone's head who's now on another team. Spec-driven development promises to fix this by making your decisions explicit and searchable. But does it actually work? In this session, we'll explore what specs really are, how they differ from requirements documents you've written before, and most importantly, whether the investment pays off for your team. We'll dig into how spec-driven development works and what challenges teams face when trying to maintain specs over time. You'll leave with a clear framework for deciding if spec-driven development is worth adopting in your workflow.

Speaker

Maarten van Diemen

Maarten van Diemen

Senior Software Engineer, MCT @ Arcady

Maarten van Diemen is a consultant at Arcady, specializing in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) within the Microsoft ecosystem. With a strong focus on Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, he helps clients optimize their software development and CI/CD processes. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Maarten is passionate about sharing knowledge, coaching teams, and enabling developers to build efficient, scalable pipelines. Whether through hands-on consulting or training sessions, he is dedicated to making DevOps workflows smoother, faster, and more maintainable.

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