The key to harnessing developer agents at scale | SIGNAL Podcast

Agent deployment jumped from 11% of organizations to 53% in two years, but only 23% see real ROI from AI agents. The gap isn’t the model. It’s what happens around it. Listen to discover what successful organizations do differently, and how the right context and guardrails can help your AI agents deliver real business value. You’ll learn how to: Ground agents by providing them with the right architectural context Plan and design your software system based on prioritization Proactively guard your systems and prevent new security risk, technical debt, and architectural drift from entering Let agents improve fixes and improvements more autonomously Chapters 0:00 Trailer 0:30 Introduction 1:15 Where companies stand today 2:14 Shift to agentic engineering 3:19 Humans, roles & productivity 7:37 Where leaders should start 9:51 Data beats assumptions 15:39 Harness engineering 20:05 The agentic SDLC 23:00 Maintainability & security gains Download State of Software 2026 here: https://www.softwareimprovementgroup.... Read about the experiment: https://www.softwareimprovementgroup.... The SIGNAL podcast, powered by Software Improvement Group, is a monthly show where we turn complex IT topics into business clarity. Hosted by Werner Heijstek, Chief Delivery Officer at Software Improvement Group. Subscribe to never miss an episode and visit our website for more information: https://www.softwareimprovementgroup.... #podcast #AIAgents #AgenticAI #MCP #HarnessEngineering #TechnicalDebt #SoftwareQuality #EnterpriseAI #softwareengineer