Turning software teams agentic; a leadership perspective
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Adopting agentic development is not a tooling decision, it is an organizational one. Teams that layer AI tools onto existing workflows see modest gains. Teams that restructure how work is assigned, reviewed, and governed unlock a different order of throughput. Ajay discusses what the transition to agentic development looks like from a leadership perspective: how to assess readiness, where the real friction points are, and what it takes to move a software organization from Level 1 to Level 2 and beyond.
- How to assess your team's current level of agentic maturity and identify the specific platform and process changes required to advance
- What changes in how work is assigned and reviewed when agents generate pull requests in parallel rather than humans writing code line by line
- The leadership decisions that determine whether an agentic development initiative compounds or stalls, and how to avoid the most common traps
Speaker: Ajay Chankramath
CTO at Platform Engineering Advisory & Consulting
Ajay Chankramath is CTO at Platform Engineering Advisory & Consulting with a career spanning more than three decades in technology leadership, including roles as Head of Platform Engineering at Thoughtworks, CTO at Brillio and CEO at Platformetrics and VP of Software Development at Broadridge. His research covers agentic artificial intelligence (AI) in platform engineering, including AI-enabled platforms and platforms purpose-built for agentic coding workflows, as well as platform security spanning zero trust architecture, policy as code, and runtime threat detection. He is the author of Effective Platform Engineering (Manning), Platform Engineer’s Handbook (Packt) and Domain Driven Platform Engineering (Springer), among other seminal works.