I think software teams will shrink to 2-4 people plus agents

I think it’s obvious that with Ai we will see a fundamental change in how we organize and Structure Teams. This post follows one ticket through a German Scrum team and shows where that path breaks. In short, roles will merge; you will not have an Isolated Developer, Designer or Business person anymore. These merged roles will also use agents to ship new features, fix bugs and verify the result. Now before we go deeper on how exactly this will change let’s first look back at how most German Companies were developing Software pre ai. In most Projects where I was, we had many different Roles: Developers (converting Tickets into code, fixing bugs, improving the codebase) Po / Ba People (doing requirement Engineering, talking to shareholders, customers) Designers (Translating the ideas that Ba People had into Screens) Devops (Setting up Infra) Qa (Helping with Testing and Quality) While not every Project has a Designer, you can also have variations like: Dev + Business Dev + Business +…