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To manage non-trivial development work, you can use a structured spec lifecycle that guides tasks through spec, plan, tasks, and closure phases. This enforces a branch-first strategy and tracks progress via atomic commits for auditable change management.

The best way to enforce a branching strategy for major refactoring is to initiate a dedicated feature branch before starting work. This approach isolates changes, tracks progress through atomic commits, and satisfies governance requirements for structured development workflows.

An auditable change management process is created by establishing a rigorous lifecycle that tracks significant changes from inception to completion. It generates spec, plan, and tasks documents to ensure all non-trivial development is fully documented and traceable.

You need a spec, plan, and tasks workflow when initiating non-trivial development tasks or major refactors. It provides a structured, auditable process ensuring all significant changes are tracked from inception to completion through dedicated feature branches.

No external dependencies are required to run this structured development workflow. It independently establishes a rigorous lifecycle for non-trivial work by creating and managing spec, plan, and tasks documents within your current environment.