Every delivery methodology you run — TOGAF, BABOK, ISTQB, Scrum, SAFe, ITIL — shares one assumption nobody wrote down: the executor has judgement and a career. They notice when a requirement is wrong, they remember last quarter’s incident, and they are accountable if the release fails. An agent has none of the three. That does not change what governance is. It changes where it has to live. Last time we argued that agentic coding stops at the pull request because the lifecycle

The 2025 debate is over. Agentic coding works. It refactors large codebases, writes the tests, runs inside CI and opens pull requests that pass human review. Sapkota et al. (2025) map the territory and place agentic coding squarely in structured, enterprise-grade automation, and the engineering teams we work with confirm it every week. Anyone still arguing that AI cannot write production code is arguing with last year.And yet, in almost every enterprise we see, the agent stop