Software Engineering AI Transition Playbook

Accelerate your safe transition to agentic software development – and make every token count.

The move to agentic software development is about far more than adopting new tools. The challenge is turning AI investment into measurable engineering productivity and business value, without allowing cost, constraints or risk to absorb the gains.

Built from lessons across 2,500+ engineering teams, current research and direct input from technology leaders, the AI Transition Playbook gives you a practical framework for managing that transition.

What you’ll learn

• How to assess your AI readiness across your codebase, data, processes, people and governance.

• What it takes to move towards the Agentic PSDLC, from context and harnesses to the right operating model.

• Where to find the constraints preventing AI gains from translating into faster end-to-end delivery.

• The metrics that matter for measuring AI impact and ROI, from rollout and engineering productivity through to business results.

From AI rollout to real results

Most organizations focus on AI rollout at one end and ROI at the other. But by the time results disappoint, the real problem is often already buried in the middle – in how AI is being used, the constraints it exposes, and whether engineering performance is actually improving.

Built from Plandek’s work with engineering organizations already navigating this transition, the RACER™ framework gives leaders a practical way to surface that missing middle early,  and turn AI investment into measurable engineering impact and business results.

The Playbook shows you how to use RACER™ to identify where AI value is being lost, focus improvement efforts and turn investment into measurable results.

Built for every stage of the transition

Whether you are just beginning your AI transformation, struggling to turn adoption into measurable gains, or already scaling agentic ways of working, the Playbook gives you the frameworks, metrics and practical guidance to decide what to do next.