What Engineering Leaders Get Wrong When Scaling Their Agent Strategy
CIO, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
CIO argues work breakdown determines both merge quality and how much agent capacity a team can actually use.
When several agents work the same codebase, the article argues, the way assignments are divided determines the outcome. Done well, merges fit together and align to team goals; done badly, you get changes that each look right alone but do not add up.
Work breakdown means splitting work into clean pieces, naming what depends on what, and keeping that plan current as things move.
The article also connects breakdown quality to capacity utilization, because you can only run as many agents as the decomposition supports. It is aimed at engineering leaders scaling past a handful of agents.