---
title: "The Agentic Product Development Organization"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-07-01"
time: "11:00am-12:00pm"
track: "CTO Circle"
room: "Leadership Lounge"
speakers: ["Martin Harrysson", "Matt Linderman", "Prakhar Dixit"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "CTO Circle"
scheduleRoom: "Leadership Lounge"
scheduleLabels: ["CTO Circle", "Leadership Lounge", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# The Agentic Product Development Organization

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 11:00am-12:00pm
- Track/room: CTO Circle · Leadership Lounge
- Speaker(s): Martin Harrysson, Matt Linderman, Prakhar Dixit
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: CTO Circle
- Room: Leadership Lounge
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
*Facilitated, peer-to-peer, under the Chatham House Rule — not recorded.* As AI agents become embedded in day-to-day work, organizations will need to rethink product development teams, roles, and skills. This foundational shift reshapes management layers and requires overcoming challenges across talent attraction, development, and retention.

## Media Evidence
[Moving away from Agile: What's Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZStlIhyTCY) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

- Source video: `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY`
- Slide deck: [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: Moving away from Agile: What's Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company]] — 16 visible slide image(s); 16 HTML recreation(s).
![[assets/reconstructed-slides/SZStlIhyTCY/slide-002.jpg]]
![[assets/reconstructed-slides/SZStlIhyTCY/slide-003.jpg]]
![[assets/reconstructed-slides/SZStlIhyTCY/slide-004.jpg]]
- Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-slides|Slides: Moving away from Agile: What's Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company]]
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY`: agile, methodologies, software, tech, breakthrough, mainframes, mobile, cloud.

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Media Signals
- `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY` — 10 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY`: agile, methodologies, software, tech, breakthrough, mainframes, mobile, cloud.
- Evidence links for `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY`: [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY]], [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-slides]], [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-reconstructed-slides]]

### Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.

## Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.

## People
- [[martin-harrysson]]
- [[matt-linderman]]
- [[prakhar-dixit]]

## Supporting Slides
- [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-slides]] — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# The Agentic Product Development Organization ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 11:00am-12:00pm - Track/room: CTO Circle · Leadership Lounge - Speaker(s): Martin Harrysson, Matt Linderman, Prakhar Dixit - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: CTO Circle - Room: Leadership Lounge - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description *Facilitated, peer-to-peer, under the Chatham House Rule — not recorded.* As AI agents become embedded in day-to-day work, organizations will need to rethink product development teams, roles, and skills. This foundational shift reshapes management layers and requires overcoming challenges across talent attraction, development, and retention. ## Media Evidence [Moving away from Agile: What's Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZStlIhyTCY) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions). - Source video: `youtube-SZStlIhyTCY` - Slide deck: [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: Moving away from Agile: What's Next – Martin Harrysson & Natasha Maniar, McKinsey & Company]] — 16 visible slide image(s); 16 HTML recreation(s).

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[martin-harrysson|Martin Harrysson]] — Senior Partner at [[mckinsey-and-company|McKinsey & Company]].
- [[matt-linderman|Matt Linderman]] — Partner, Technology Practice at [[mckinsey-and-company|McKinsey & Company]].
- [[prakhar-dixit|Prakhar Dixit]] — Partner at [[mckinsey|McKinsey]].

### Topics Covered
- Topic links are pending transcript-backed classification.

### Derived Links And Source Material
- [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY]] — related YouTube source page.
- [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-SZStlIhyTCY-reconstructed-slides]] — slide evidence.

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.