Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework: AI Agent Adoption Guidance

NEW - AI Agent Adoption Guidance from Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework Over the past year working with customers, we’ve seen that controlling and standardizing agent development across an organization is top of mind for most leaders. To address this, we created our new AI Agent Adoption Guidance, and it is now publicly available in Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework: Read the guidance here: https://lnkd.in/ehFWdaR5 Why should I use it? This guidance provides an end-to-end framework for AI agent adoption. It helps leaders move from planning to managing all their agents across an organization. It provides best practices at each stage and shows you how Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Copilot Studio enable those recommendations. The guidance presents a practical sequence through Foundry and Copilot Studio that reflects how teams will naturally use them, mapping best practices to tool usage. It also covers data architecture with Microsoft Fabric, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ, as well as SaaS agents in Microsoft 365, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Copilot, Dynamics 365, and Security Copilot agents This approach helps organizations understand how Microsoft supports their journey while enabling them to standardize and govern agent development with confidence. Who is the guidance for? If you are responsible for AI agents across your business, organization, or multiple teams, whether large or small, this guidance is for you. It is designed to help you govern, secure, and measure the success of all your AI agents. What is the process to adopt AI agents? AI agent adoption involves four key steps: 1. Plan for agents: How organizations should identify high-value use cases for AI agents, select the right technology, prepare teams, and ensure data readiness for scaling and governance.   2. Govern and secure agents: How to address governance, security, and observability across an organization, along with baseline policies and tools that support consistent implementation across the organization. 3. Build agents: When to build single-agent or multi-agent systems, plus how Foundry and Copilot Studio fit into the build process to help establish organizational standards. 4. Manage agents: Best practices for integrating agents into operations and managing them over time, including cost optimization, administration, and measuring adoption success. Questions? If you want the guidance to cover other topics, reach out to me on LinkedIn (DM) or on Reddit (MicrosoftCAF) Thank you to my Microsoft colleagues for their insights:  Jason Bouska, Timo Salomäki, Daniel Söderholm, Wandenkolk Tinoco Neto, Sree Lakshmi Adigopula, Piyush Jain, Bilal Amjad, Jorge Garcia Ximenez, Ben Brauer, Pablo Carceller Gonzalez, Philip Fumey, John Lunn, Brian Swiger Thank you to the following Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs): Artem Chernevskiy, Edgar McOchieng', Vesa Nopanen [MVP], Sakshi Kokardekar Luke Nyswonger, Martin Ekuan, Hans Yang, Annie Pearl