Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal — Fall 2026

Volume 3, Issue 2

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The technology leader's world is being upended. Agentic AI has changed what's technically possible inside the enterprise faster than almost anyone predicted—and yet a large majority of enterprise AI initiatives are failing to show measurable financial return, even as adoption metrics climb and code ships faster than ever. This issue of the Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal is, in one sense, an attempt to explain that gap.

Seven papers, each begun in a room at the Spring 2026 Enterprise Technology Leadership Forum, reach a similar conclusion: the bottleneck was never the model. It is the organization around it—the review processes built for human-paced work, the compliance controls designed without their operating cost in mind, the career ladders that assumed junior engineers would always exist, the decision rights nobody updated when software started acting instead of just running.

Topics
AI · Leadership · Software Delivery & Architecture
Formats
epub · pdf
License
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

In this issue

  1. Agentic AI and Code Reviews

    Zach Davis (LaunchDarkly), Michelle Gill (Engineered by AI), Elisabeth Hendrickson (Curious Duck Digital Laboratory), Angie Jones (Agentic AI Foundation), Sha Ma (Topogy), Randy Shoup (CircleCI) & James Wickett (DryRun Security)

    8
  2. AI-Driven Organizational Value

    Rodo Abad (John Deere), Jason Cox, Jeff Gallimore (Excella), Betty Junod (Generationship), Tapabrata Pal (M&T Bank), Brian Scott (Adobe) & Max Reele (Rise8)

    38
  3. Deliberate Compliance

    Clare Hawthorne (OxerLine Advisory), Ben Grinnell (Newton), James Nugent (General Motors) & Dustin Warner (NRC Health)

    73
  4. Raising Seniors

    Kent Beck (Thinkies), Jondavid Black (Northrop Grumman), Cornelia Davis (Temporal Technologies), Shawn Minto (Planview), Dan Neff (Adobe), Ezra Savard (Netflix) & Adam Zimman

    134
  5. The Sociotechnical Architecture of AI-Enabled Enterprises

    Ian Eslick (SoFi), Collin Fox (United States Navy), Amanda Graham, Suzette Johnson (Northrop Grumman), Chuck Lafferty (ADP), Tom Kilcommons (Newton), Rosalind Radcliffe (IBM), Cat Swetel (Nubank), Annie Vella (Westpac New Zealand), Sam Yeats (TeamForm) & Robin Yeman (Leidos)

    155
  6. When Agents Decide

    Adrian Cockcroft (OrionX.net), Jeremy Eder (Red Hat Inc.), Joseph Enochs (Enterprise Vision Technologies), Jenn Spykerman (MomentumAI) & Brian Wald (GitLab)

    180
  7. When Coding Is Free, Where Is the Bottleneck?

    Timothy Cochran (Praxa Inc), Bryan Finster (ACI Worldwide), Tim Ottersburg (NRC Health), Scott Prugh (ACI Worldwide) & Amy Willard (John Deere)

    211

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