Rewiring Software Delivery

About this book

Second Edition, October 2026. AI is changing software delivery faster than most enterprise operating models can adapt.

Coding agents can inspect repositories, generate implementations, run tests, invoke tools, investigate failures and hand work to other agents. But faster execution creates a harder leadership problem: who authorised the work, what was the agent allowed to change, which context was trustworthy, what evidence proves the result, and when should autonomy stop?

The book introduces the Agentic Software Delivery Operating Model (ASDOM), a practitioner operating model for redesigning enterprise software delivery around human-agent execution, rather than simply adding AI tools to the existing SDLC.

What’s new in the Second Edition

Version 2 rebuilds the book around ASDOM 2.0. It separates organisational authority from technical capability, introduces distinct governance lanes for delivery agents and AI-enabled products, and follows one connected NovaBuild change from intent and architecture through execution, validation, security, release, operations, measurement, recovery and institutionalisation.

The agentic-delivery platform now covers governed context, orchestration topology, tool and skill contracts, durable execution, evaluation, shared control planes, economics, readiness, recovery and a three-phase transformation path from controlled proof to repeatable scale.

Practical innovations include bounded authority grants, governed context records, delegation controls, independent validation, incident-authority ladders, evidence-driven release decisions and explicit restoration of authority after failure. The Five-Minute Evidence Chain gives leaders a compact way to reconstruct the path from approved intent to release and restoration.

Who it’s for

CTOs, CIOs, engineering and delivery leaders, enterprise architects, platform and transformation leaders bringing agentic AI into real enterprise software delivery.