AI-First Software Delivery: Balancing Innovation with Proven Practices

As AI reshapes the work of software teams and brings both opportunities and uncertainties, ensuring high-quality delivery becomes even more essential. This session shows how to adopt AI-first practices while keeping developers in control and aligned with the engineering principles that support effective delivery. Using real examples based on the RIPER-5 model, a specification-driven design approach, the talk demonstrates how to merge the potential of AI with already established practices to create balanced, reliable and developer-centered workflows. Participants will walk away with a practical roadmap to cut through the hype, maintain human oversight and integrate AI in ways that deliver real value.