Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate it!

I find it surprising that a smart contract or something like it can't be triggered by an off-chain transaction. This domain is new for me and I will have to do some research into how this can be accomplished. Or if it is needed, what it would take to develop the process. My current understanding of smart contracts is that they are programs that run on the blockchain, I made an assumption that they could process a transaction based on some metric and the metric could trigger the transaction that caused some part of the contract to execute.

My goal is to pass value back to the creator of the value, I've used VS and a bunch of other IDEs and source control systems. The thought is to plug into the different processes in SDLC and have the metrics drive the transactions. I'm sure there would be some development to hook into these processes and call APIs etc. for integration. I guess there could be a need to develop the system that allows for SDLC to be a part of the blockchain as well.

Thanks again!