The Autonomous SDLC: Moving from Point Tools to a Unified DevSecOps Platform
2026.11.17 Harness-LandingPage-1540x660

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Tuesday, November 17th

1 pm ET

Engineering organizations have invested heavily in modern developer tooling, from CI/CD systems and security scanners to infrastructure automation and service catalogs. Yet many teams still struggle to improve delivery speed, system reliability, and organizational visibility. The root cause is rarely the tools themselves; it is the fragmentation of context across the platform.

As the industry moves toward an Autonomous SDLC, the limits of fragmented point tools become a severe bottleneck. Agents and automated pipelines require continuous context from commit through production, to interpret signals accurately and make safe, automated decisions. Without a unified platform, automation stalls, and developers are left bridging the gaps manually.

This session will explore how organizations transition to a unified platform approach to build the foundation for the Autonomous SDLC, replacing manual approval gates with intelligent, automated guardrails. 

Key Takeaways:

  • Context Gaps: Why disparate point tools fracture organizational context and block the path to an Autonomous SDLC.

  • Powering AI and Automation: How continuous, integrated context from code to production enables AI agents to make better, faster decisions within your pipelines.

  • The Platform Advantage: The critical difference between managing a fragmented CI/CD toolchain and operating a unified platform that acts as a single source of truth.  

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Eric Minick-modified (1)

Eric Minick

Sr. Director of DevOps Solutions - Harness
Eric Minick is an internationally recognized expert in software delivery, known for speaking at Qcon, JavaOne, and IBM Think and cited or acknowledged in the books, “Continuous Integration” and “Team Topologies.” His light-board videos on DevOps and value streams have been viewed nearly a million times.

Today, Eric supports the Harness product management team in bringing its solutions to market. Eric joined Harness from CodeLogic, where he was Head of Product.