Modern software development, leveraging AI, has accelerated beyond the capabilities of traditional software development lifecycle (SDLC) approaches. Today’s leading organizations operate through an agentic development cycle that integrates planning, design, build, test, and delivery — all accelerated by AI, cloud‑native engineering, and continuous testing. This report provides technology leaders with a deep dive into the key components of Forrester’s Agentic Software Development (ASD) Model.

Modern software delivery now relies on an agentic software development lifecycle (SDLC) that strengthens traditional development stages with AI-enhanced coding, autonomous testing, and optimized delivery. Integrating agentic capabilities helps development teams move faster, improve quality, and stay aligned to business value. Read this report to understand how an agentic SDLC elevates speed, reliability, and business impact.

Agentic AI is the most dramatic change to software development since the advent of cloud-native development and, going back farther, the introduction of higher-level programming languages. In this case study, we detail how Microsoft uses agentic processes to develop its Azure site reliability engineering (SRE) agent and show tech leaders how agentic software development is as much a process, skills, and governance shift as it is a tooling change. While Microsoft operates at a massive scale, its core lessons of human oversight, spec-driven guardrails, blended roles, and outcome-based metrics are practical patterns that even smaller teams in large enterprises can easily adopt.

Recently, a colleague of mine was working on a mathematical model in Excel. He asked Copilot to solve a complex problem. The answer the spreadsheet produced wasn’t quite right. He asked Copilot what it did to figure out the answer. It started spitting out Python code. My colleague was not a developer. He had never […]

Microsoft didn’t fail to bring out the big guns at this year’s Build conference. From Satya Nadella conversing with Jensen Huang (remotely) on stage to in-depth sessions around managing and securing agentic workflows, Microsoft clearly learned from past events. Gone were fictional company demos and the indecisive advice of “We’ll figure out what developers should […]

Anthropic has confidentially filed its S‑1 for a proposed IPO. On the surface, early investors, VCs, and late-stage backers are likely planning the biggest AI liquidity party of 2026. The company already has more money than it can spend after a fresh $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation (nearly $1 […]

Many organizations struggle to keep their development teams high performing in an AI-driven world. This report identifies six crucial traits that distinguish high-performance IT (HPIT) development teams: leveraging AI throughout the software lifecycle, adopting DevOps and DevSecOps practices, prioritizing low-code solutions and empowering citizen developers, fostering collaboration through fusion teams, championing open-source participation and funding, and investing in edge development platforms. Use this report to scale your development strategies to be high performing and ensure your teams can rapidly respond to changing business needs while delivering superior results.

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Microsoft outlined a vision for the “frontier” organization: one dramatically transformed through AI and AI agents. Learn about some of the major announcements and our analysis here.

Join Forrester experts and your peers for an interactive presentation that will dive deeper into Forrester’s 2026 Predictions for software development.Key takeaways: Understand the changing technology, consumer, and market dynamics in store in 2026. Uncover new insights based on Forrester’s research and expert analysis.Prepare your team and your organization for what’s ahead. Target audience level: all levels

Would GitHub’s formal transition from individual subsidiary to part of Microsoft’s CoreAI division change the vibe at this year's event? We found out.