# Beyond Autonomous Teams in Software Product Development

DevFeed: [Beyond Autonomous Teams in Software Product Development](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/beyond-autonomous-teams-in-software-product-development-8451.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/autonomous-software-teams/>)

Author: Ben Linders

Published: 2026-09-10T10:29:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [InfoQ](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/infoq.md>)

Topics: [Self-organizing Team](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-organizing-team.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>)

Tags: [agile-conferences](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agile-conferences.md>), [autonomous](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomous.md>), [autonomous-software-teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomous-software-teams.md>), [business-value](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business-value.md>), [complex-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complex-systems.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [conference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conference.md>), [culture-methods](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture-methods.md>), [delivering-value](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/delivering-value.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [product-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-development.md>), [scrum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scrum.md>), [self-organizing-team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-organizing-team.md>), [teamwork](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teamwork.md>)

## AI overview

A conference talk argues for moving from product-focused autonomous teams to value centers, with organizational design shaped by value and its dependencies. It frames agency and coherence as a trade-off and uses the Viable Systems Model to suggest five questions for teams.

## Source excerpt

Autonomous teams are an article of faith in modern software development. The shape of our value determines what we can do; it determines our trade-offs between agency and coherence. We all have a purpose, and we all have agency to do something, hence the suggestion is moving from product focus to value center thinking. By Ben Linders