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Vanessa Fumicola

Principal Architect and Head of TASC at Prima, ex-Microsoft and ThoughtWorks, and QCon/InfoQ speaker on socio-technical engineering.

Aug 7, 2026

15:50
What's happening in the collaboration space there? Who would like to tackle this one?
15:56
I'll give it a go if you want.
15:58
So clearly, as we have different problems and different companies, there would be different solutions for this.
16:04
But I think the big consideration that we need to have is how do we expect this system to evolve? So when we look at the team, even before we used to think, okay, this team requires this skill set, this software will last, this software will be for the developer user, for the actual user paying a subscription.
16:24
We always had some metrics to say, "We need this kind of team for this kind of problem." The conversations that we're having today are more, who's gonna evolve the software? How many people interaction do I need with that software going forward? What skills do I need that are human in that software going forward? So I can foresee models where maybe more business critical pieces where you have what we've called a team up to now, but super powered by, you know, models, agents, and supporting what they can.
16:58
And I can see lower risks teams where it's actually product manager and one dev.
17:05
This can open roads to completely different setups of teams, you know, agents as team members in a group of humans.

17 MINS LATER

34:20
This is a new tool that we're now needing to learn to wield in a new way, but I don't know that I think that it's gonna really fundamentally change what I expect of my senior leaders over, over time.

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