Controlled Acceleration: How Morgan Stanley Is Evolving SDLC Controls for an Agentic World
As AI accelerates software development, financial services firms must increase delivery speed while maintaining control and accountability. Khalid Elsawaf describes how Morgan Stanley is evolving its software development controls by breaking manual reviews into focused, reusable agent skills, bringing those checks into developers’ everyday tools, and generating evidence alongside the work. Drawing on architecture alignment, test quality, specification coverage, and infrastructure review, he explains how standardized development practices make controls easier to automate and how teams can question whether existing gates still address meaningful risks. Attendees will learn an approach to moving controls earlier in delivery while preserving human judgment for exceptions and consequential decisions.
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