Building on a research with more than 300 early adopters of AI coding tools, Gojko describes a systematic approach for creating a reliable, reproducible, deterministic system for controlling and orchestrating agentic work: a software factory.
Software factories babysit 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 is ensures that your agents work with your process and creating products the way they should be done for your organization, not for someone else.
This talk will explain the common 5-step model for growing a factory, and provide the audience with clear guidance how to locate themselves on the model and what are the next logical steps to take to improve how they use coding agents. Gojko will also talk about the impact of growing a factory on team sizes, dynamics and organizational productivity.
