Do you recognize these symptoms?

AI is accelerating software execution. Your organization may not be keeping up.

How many of these symptoms do you recognize in your organization?

  1. 01AI spend / value

    Your AI token usage has increased dramatically — but you still can't explain the value of that investment to your CFO.

  2. 02Review / remediation

    AI is making coding faster — and now your senior engineers are over-burdened with code reviews, remediation and integration.

  3. 03Security risk

    AI is generating code faster — and your security vulnerabilities are increasing faster than your controls can catch them.

  4. 04Technical debt

    AI is generating code faster than your teams can understand and govern it — and technical debt is starting to compound.

You may not see the business impact yet. But your organization is already telling you where AI is creating pressure.

Across technology organizations, AI adoption is creating remarkably similar constraints.

From AI activity to business value

The burning platform

AI often accelerates individual tasks — while magnifying bottlenecks in the flow.

Work item A

Developwith AI
Testwith AI
Deploywith AI
Delivered

Work item B

Developwith AI
Testwith AI
Integratewith AI
Deploywith AI

Work item C

Developwith AI
Testwith AI
Integratewith AI

The conundrum

You can dramatically increase coding capacity without increasing delivery capacity.

When review, coordination and release decisions remain human-dependent, coordinators, tech leads and other critical roles can become the constraint — absorbing more work as AI increases the volume of tasks moving through the system.

AI-native delivery

AI-native delivery keeps work moving from intent to production.

Small, independently shippable work, AI-enabled execution and automated guardrails allow teams to move from intent to production with human intervention reserved for judgment, exceptions and risk.

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Explicit stories → Business intentIndependently shippable workHuman approval → Increasingly automated

Human judgment moves to where it creates the most value.

People set direction, define boundaries and handle exceptions. AI handles more of the execution in between.

AI activity → Business value

The real measure of AI adoption is whether your technology organization is delivering more business value.

Business-oriented work items are the right unit for measuring AI's impact on delivery.

A meaningful work item describes something the business or its customers can actually use, experience or benefit from.

Business-oriented

Enable a member to update their beneficiary online.

Supporting technical work

Work item 1Build beneficiary update API.
Work item 2Update front end to support beneficiary changes.

Business-oriented work gives technology and business stakeholders a common measure of delivery. Technical work is necessary — but splitting work into smaller technical units in an agentic setting can obscure dependencies and create bottlenecks between them.

Primary delivery measures

Supporting measure

Capacity

How do changes in team capacity affect delivery performance?

Following work to production

Tracking a business work item all the way to production is harder than it sounds.

Explore the path · Click each stage to see where tracking gets hard

A business work item gives you something meaningful to measure. But once work enters engineering, it can spread across multiple systems, teams and delivery paths — making it difficult to know exactly what reached production.

The challenge isn't collecting the data. It's connecting the relationships.