Perspective · For the Delivery Leader
Running delivery when agents do the building
The weekly rhythm you run was tuned for one thing: scarce engineering capacity. That scarcity is exactly what moved. Standups, sprints and estimates do not disappear — but each has a different job once the constraint is how fast a human can accept work, not how fast a team can produce it. This pathway re-points the cadence around acceptance.
Re-point cadence, ceremonies and estimation for a world where acceptance, not capacity, is the constraint.
Standups, sprints and estimates still run — but they feel increasingly beside the point.
Capacity stopped being the bottleneck, so a cadence tuned for throughput is now optimising the wrong thing.
The ceremonies survive with a new job: managing acceptance and assurance, not how much gets produced.
The Arc
Scrum in the Agentic Era: Which Ceremonies Survive
Upcoming · 9 minThe weekly rhythm, re-pointed: which ceremonies survive and what their new job is.
Why Alignment Beats Agile: Product, Architecture and Engineering
Upcoming · 7 minWhy alignment, not method, is the real constraint — the organisational version of the same argument.
The Agentic SDLC Is an Acceptance-Gate Problem
Upcoming · 6 minThe lifecycle the ceremonies sit inside — where agents act and where a human must accept.
Measuring AI Engineering Properly
Upcoming · 6 minInstrument the new bottleneck: measure acceptance and rework, not velocity.
Designing the Human Acceptance Loop: Where People Must Stay in the System as Agents Take Over the Build
Upcoming · 7 minDesign the loop that decides what ships — deliberately, not by default.
Continuous Assurance: From Audit Day to Always-On Evidence
Upcoming · 9 minThe always-on assurance the delivery leader now owns — controls as code, not an annual audit.
Delivery in the agentic era keeps the ceremonies and changes their purpose — toward acceptance, assurance and the loop that decides what ships. The judgement those teams now depend on has to be deliberately rebuilt: that is its own arc.
“Measure acceptance and rework, not velocity.”