Your developers are shipping more code with AI. But is your team actually delivering better?
Software factories babysit AI coding agents so that humans can focus on higher level work.
They can significantly reduce cycle time, rework and token spend by enforcing a consistent process for development and testing. Vendors will try to sell you one, but for factories to be effective, they need to encode your team and organization standards, process and policies at a level never done before. Growing your own factory ensures that your agents work with your process and create products the way they should be done for your organization, not for someone else.
The Agentic Software Factory workshop guides you through a five-step process to grow your own software factory, based on research with more than 300 early adopters of AI coding tools and several real implementations of this approach.
With Gojko Adzic you’ll set up the team practices and the metrics that show you’re delivering better, not just more, so that individual productivity gains become team and organisational performance.
The Trainer
Gojko Adzic is the author of Running Serverless, Impact Mapping, Specification by Example and a few more books. He is the founder of Narakeet and Votito.
Gojko has helped organisations around the world improve their software delivery, from some of the largest financial institutions to small innovative startups.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:
- Diagnose your current mode of agentic development. Recognise what makes a software factory different, position your team on the five-step adoption model, and understand what’s required, technically and organisationally, to move up from where you are.
- Plan your next step. Define concrete actions to move to the next stage of the model, including the changes it requires in CI, testing and specifications.
- Make it pay off for the team. Set up team practices and the metrics that show you’re delivering better, not just more, so that individual productivity gains become team and organizational performance.
Target Audience
This is a workshop for Senior Developers and Architects who have the authority and the responsibility to influence internal processes and tools.
Experience with agentic development is helpful, but not necessary.
Topics
With the help of Gojko Adzic, the workshop will cover:
- What is a software factory, and how using one looks like compared to other modes of agentic development
- Why is owning a software factory better than buying one or using open-source tools
- Adoption model, 5 steps to grow the factory, and how to spot where you are on the map (research)
- How to move from each step to the next, with concrete advice
- What this means for CI, testing, and specifications
- How to use a factory effectively as a team
- What to measure/track to ensure you’re delivering better, not just more.
- How to turn agentic work from individual productivity gain into team or organizational performance improvement.
How it works
The workshop is a mix of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations, with the group participating in a shared development session. You can, if you wish, bring your own laptop and agentic setup and follow the demonstrations to work independently, but this is not necessary.
Requirements
The ideas and methods presented are generic enough to be applied to any agentic tool or model. To keep things simple and consistent in the workshop, we will use Claude Code as an example. Although we will not cover other tools directly, you will learn enough about the underlying principles and practices to be able to apply this approach easily to any other tools after the workshop.
FAQ
- Do I need any prior knowledge to attend?
Experience with agentic development helps, but it isn’t required. - Do I need to bring my laptop with me?
It’s optional. If you’d like to follow the demonstrations hands-on, bring your laptop with your own agentic setup. - What do I need to install?
Nothing is required. If you plan to follow the demonstrations on your own laptop, make sure your usual agentic development tools are installed and working before the workshop, with an active account or subscription.
