Agentic AI Transformation

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Governance platform (system of record and workflow)Establish governance platform for agent oversightCIO / CTOAI Governance Platform Product OwnerPolicy enforcementGovernanceL
Coaching and enablement supportProvide hands-on support for autonomous workflow adoptionCIO / CTOAI Enablement Hub Lead (Coaching, Office Hours)Skills and capability buildingPeopleM
Communities of practice / guildsBuild communities around safe autonomy patternsCIO / CTOCommunity Lead (AI Guild)Skills and capability buildingPeopleXS
Practitioner tooling literacy (agents, prompts, evaluation)Train practitioners on frameworks, evals and monitoringCIO / CTOEngineering Enablement Lead (AI)Skills and capability buildingPeopleS
Live backlog prioritisation and iteration principlesReprioritise live backlog for risk and stabilityCIO / CTOProduct Manager (Agent Platform / Agent Services)Continuous improvementProcess & toolingS
Dependency mapping (apps, connectors, data stores, services)Map dependencies across agent execution chainsCIO / CTOEnterprise Architecture + CMDB/Service Mapping OwnerInventory and discoveryProcess & toolingM
Intake and registration workflowRegister agent bundles, permissions and endpointsCIO / CTOAI Governance Platform Ops (Inventory Registrar)Inventory and discoveryProcess & toolingM
Change and release managementManage bundled releases with controlled rollbackCIO / CTORelease Management Lead (Agent Bundles)Lifecycle managementProcess & toolingM
Live tuning, configuration, and update managementGovern live tuning, updates and rollbackCIO / CTOAI/Agent Configuration Management OwnerLifecycle managementProcess & toolingM
Retirement and decommissioningRetire agents safely and archive evidenceCIO / CTOService Owner (AI/Agent Services) + IAM Owner (revoke)Lifecycle managementProcess & toolingS
Agent testing harnesses (evals, simulations)Build harnesses for workflow and failure simulationCIO / CTOAI Test Engineering LeadSDLC and pipelinesProcess & toolingM
DevOps / DevSecOps pipeline integrationIntegrate evaluations, policy gates and security checksCIO / CTODevSecOps Platform OwnerSDLC and pipelinesProcess & toolingL
Environment management (dev / test / prod)Provide safe dev, test and production environmentsCIO / CTOPlatform Operations Lead (Environments)SDLC and pipelinesProcess & toolingM
API design and integrationDesign APIs for agent orchestrationCIO / CTOHead of Integration / API PlatformArchitectureTechnologyM
Event-driven architectureEnable event-driven autonomous workflowsCIO / CTOHead of Integration / Event PlatformArchitectureTechnologyM
Microservices and modular designModularise services for dynamic agent compositionCIO / CTOHead of Platform EngineeringArchitectureTechnologyM
Secure experimentation sandbox (high-trust build environment)Provide secure sandbox for agent experimentationCIO / CTOHead of Developer Platform / Engineering EnablementArchitectureTechnologyM
Fine-tuning and customisation strategyShape agent behaviour with policy-aware customisationCIO / CTOHead of Applied AI / ML EngineeringFoundation modelsTechnologyS
Foundation model vendor selectionEvaluate vendors for agent reliability and controlsCIO / CTOHead of AI Platform (Model Strategy and Sourcing)Foundation modelsTechnologyS
Model performance monitoringMonitor goal success, tool errors and violationsCIO / CTOHead of AI Ops / Model MonitoringFoundation modelsTechnologyM
Cloud provider selectionPrioritise portable cloud foundations for agentsCIO / CTOHead of Cloud Platform EngineeringInfrastructureTechnologyM
Network and storage architectureUpgrade networks and storage for agent workloadsCIO / CTOHead of Infrastructure Engineering (Networks and Storage)InfrastructureTechnologyM
On-premise vs hybrid strategyDefine hybrid execution boundaries for autonomyCIO / CTOHead of Enterprise ArchitectureInfrastructureTechnologyM
Automated validation and testingExpand testing to multi-step agent behaviourCRO (with CIO)Head of AI Assurance / Testing and ValidationControlsGovernanceM
DevSecOps control gates in CI/CDAdd agent behaviour gates to CI/CDCISO (with CIO)Head of DevSecOps / Secure SDLCArchitectureTechnologyM
Evidence automation and compliance reporting pipelinesAutomate evidence collection and reportingCCO (with CIO)GRC Tooling Owner / AI Governance Platform Product OwnerArchitectureTechnologyM
Explainability instrumentation and provenance captureCapture action rationale and provenanceCCO (with CIO)Head of AI Platform Observability / TelemetryArchitectureTechnologyM
Fallback and safe-state designDesign safe states and manual overridesCOO (with CIO)SRE Lead for AI/Agent ServicesArchitectureTechnologyM
Runtime action ring-fencing and safety wrappersRing-fence runtime actions with safety wrappersCISO (with CIO)Head of AI Platform Engineering (Policy Enforcement Layer)ArchitectureTechnologyM
Model governance and versioningGovern versions across complete agent bundlesCRO (with CIO)Head of AI Governance (Agent Bundle Release Management)Foundation modelsTechnologyM
Scalability and resilience engineeringEngineer resilient always-on agent servicesCOO (with CIO)Head of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)InfrastructureTechnologyL