McKinsey: Rewiring software delivery for the agentic era

By McKinsey & Company · Wed, 28 Oct 2026.

The email, sent by McKinsey Technology to its artificial intelligence alerts list and signed by Basel Kayyali and Florian Niedermann, global leaders of McKinsey Technology, introduces a new piece titled “Rewiring software delivery for the agentic era”, with the tagline “Redefine how software creates value”.

The email's thesis is that the way agentic AI is being used in software development is a “harbinger” of broader changes to the delivery model. In other words, software development is framed as a pilot case for how AI agents can transform the way organizations work and create value.

As complementary reading, McKinsey recommends its collection “Software development: Leading the AI revolution”. According to the email, agentic software development can accelerate innovation, improve quality and reduce both costs and risks. However, it warns that capturing all of that value requires far more than deploying new tools.

The email does not include quantitative data, specific use cases or details of the analysis; it simply announces the article and links to it. The full content is available in the original publication on McKinsey's website.

The rest of the message is unrelated to AI: an invitation to a McKinsey Live event on November 12, where Andy West, Whitney Zimmerman and Tim Koller will present their upcoming book “Strategy and Value: The Four Foundations That Drive Long-Term Performance”, on how leaders can drive growth and returns, manage for the long term, capitalize on market attractiveness and build sustainable competitive advantage.