Developing software with AI agents – but how?

Agentic Engineering or iSAQB AGENTA? Two training courses on new approaches to software development

Coding agents are fundamentally transforming software development. They no longer simply write individual lines of code, but are able to analyse requirements, examine existing systems, implement changes across multiple files, create tests and take on increasingly complex development tasks. This raises two key questions for software teams:

How can I work effectively with coding agents in software development?
What should architectural work look like when more and more software is being developed with the support of coding agents?

With Agentic Engineering and the new iSAQB module AGENTA, WPS offers two training courses that cover precisely these two perspectives. They deal with the same development process – but approach it from different angles.

Agentic Engineering: Developing software with coding agents

Anyone who tries out Claude Code, Cursor and other coding agents will quickly realise that their potential goes far beyond traditional code completion. However, good results do not come about automatically simply because an AI agent is given access to a repository.

In our Agentic Engineering training course, you’ll learn how coding agents can be used professionally and effectively in software development.

The focus is on practical collaboration between humans and AI: how do we provide agents with the right context? Which tasks can they take on? How do we design development processes in which AI not only generates code, but is meaningfully integrated into analysis, implementation, refactoring, testing and reviews? And which proven engineering practices help to maintain quality and control?

In short:
Agentic Engineering shows how we develop software with AI agents.
The training is aimed in particular at developers, architects and tech leads who want to do more than just try out coding agents – they want to use them systematically in their day-to-day work.

Find out more about the Agentic Engineering Training course

Architecture is becoming a guardrail for AI

The new CPSA Advanced Level module, AGENTA

If coding agents can generate more and more code at an ever-faster rate, a new challenge arises: how do we ensure that this results in a good software system in the long term?

This is precisely where AGENTA – Architecture in the Context of Agent-Based Software Development – comes in.

This is because coding agents initially know neither a system’s quality objectives nor its architectural principles, nor the reasons behind previous architectural decisions. Without appropriate guidelines, there is a risk that code will be produced very quickly – but just as quickly, architectural drift, undesirable dependencies and technical debt will arise.

AGENTA therefore adopts an architectural perspective on agent-based software development. Among other things, participants learn how to structure architectural knowledge so that it can also be utilised by agents, how to align coding agents with architectural goals using guardrails, and how to automatically enforce architectural rules through means such as architectural tests and fitness functions.

At the same time, the focus is on the reverse direction: how can software architects use AI themselves to analyse existing systems, extract architectural information, explore variants and prepare decisions?

In short:
AGENTA demonstrates how we design and manage architecture when AI agents develop software.
The three-day training course is an accredited module of the iSAQB Advanced Level and is aimed in particular at software architects and experienced developers. It counts towards 30 credit points for the CPSA-A.

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It’s all about teamwork

Two perspectives on the same change

The two training courses are therefore not in competition with one another – they complement each other.

Agentic Engineering focuses more on the development process: How do I work effectively with coding agents and how do I integrate them into my day-to-day software development?

AGENTA focuses more on architectural work: What guidelines do agents need? How do we prevent architectural drift? How do we make architectural knowledge usable for AI? And how can AI support software architects in their own work?

Or, to put it even more simply:

Agentic Engineering: Developing with agents.
AGENTA: Mastering agentic development from an architectural perspective.

Those who understand both perspectives can harness the potential of agentic software development without compromising on quality, maintainability and architectural control.

Ready for software development with AI?

Coding agents will continue to transform the way we develop software. The crucial factor will not be whether development teams use AI, but how professionally they handle it.

Through our training courses on Agentic Engineering and AGENTA, we provide the knowledge needed to actively shape this change – both in day-to-day development work and at the level of software architecture.

Find out more about the Agentic Engineering Training course

Find out more about the iSAQB AGENTA module