Where Agents Belong in Your Engineering Organization
Tim Gifford
Most engineering teams rolled out a coding assistant in the last year, but most aren’t seeing the gains they expected. The tools are speeding up typing inside workflows that haven’t changed — and the work itself hasn’t been sorted into what agents should actually own.
In our next Lean BYTES, Tim Gifford, Chief Innovation Officer at Lean TECHniques, will walk through the Human Judgement Map — a 2×2 framework he’s been using with engineering leaders to sort work by risk and judgement. You’ll see which kinds of work agents should fully own, where they need guardrails, where they belong as a second opinion, and where they don’t belong at all. He’ll share a few moves you can try this week to start delegating throughput without giving up the judgement calls that matter.
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