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For Business and Technology Leaders

Eight keys to enterprise agentic transformation

Agentic software engineering changes how enterprise software gets built, not how fast — the unit of work moves from a developer writing code to an engineer specifying intent and supervising agents that execute it.

Keys Preview

Where adoption is outpacing advantage

The full report unpacks eight keys — four for the business seat, four for the technical seat — each paired with concrete moves you and your team can use to put them to work today. Here's a preview of three.

Key T1 – Technology

Adoption is outpacing advantage

90% on AI code assistants by 2028
84% of developers already use AI tools, and Copilot users complete tasks 55.8% faster. But DORA's own research finds AI amplifies a team's existing strengths and weaknesses — not just its speed.

Stack Overflow 2025 · Gartner 2025 · GitHub Research 2024 · DORA/Google 2025

Key B1 – Business

The AI ROI reckoning hits now

25% of 2026 AI spend deferred
Forrester predicts enterprises will defer a quarter of planned 2026 AI spend into 2027. Fewer than a third of decision-makers can tie AI value to financial growth.

Forrester 2026 · Gartner 2025 · MIT via CIO.com 2025

Key B4 – Business

Governance hasn't kept up with the agents

Agent-produced changes can reach production faster than the audit trail behind them. Accountability still sits with your team — not the tooling that generated the change.

Softtek engineering practice analysis

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WHAT'S INSIDE

Eight keys and a self-assessment built for your next leadership meeting

Four keys for the business seat, four for the technical seat — each with concrete moves you can put to work, plus a one-page worksheet built to compare how both reads converge.

For Business Leaders | CFO - CIO

Key B1

The AI ROI reckoning hits now

Enterprises will defer 25% of 2026 AI spend into 2027. Fewer than a third can tie AI value to financial growth.

Key B2

The talent path alone won't close the gap

AI capability is now the hardest skill category to find globally. Hiring alone won't hit the timeline.

Key B3

Pilot fatigue concentrates in non-agentic work

95% of GenAI pilots miss ROI in six months. Agentic workflows are where the exceptions concentrate.

Key B4

Governance hasn't kept up with the agents

Agent-produced changes can outpace the audit trail behind them. Accountability still sits with your team.

For Technology Leaders | CTO - VP Engineering

Key T1

Adoption is outpacing advantage

84% of developers already use AI tools, but AI amplifies existing strengths and weaknesses, not just speed.

Key T2

The IDE is becoming optional

65%+ of engineering teams will treat the IDE as optional by 2027. This is an operating-model shift, not a tooling upgrade.

Key T3

The delivery clock changes shape

Median PR review time is up 441.5% as AI-accelerated code outpaces review capacity — hardest on a team split across a time-zone gap.

Key T4

The bottleneck moved to specifying and validating

AI generates code faster than most teams can specify and validate it. That's the new constraint.

About this outlook

Built from leading research — Gartner, Deloitte, Forrester, MIT, Stack Overflow, DORA/Google, ManpowerGroup, GitHub, Faros AI, and others — these are the eight keys CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, VPs of Engineering, and CFOs should be tracking as agentic software engineering moves from pilot to structural shift.

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