Port Community Session: November Edition

Join us for the next Port Community Session. This monthly gathering is where the Port community comes together to explore new product updates, hear from voices across the industry, and dig into everything agentic SDLC and the AI software factory.

We open with what shipped last month: a walkthrough of the latest features, the problems each one solves, and what’s next on the roadmap.

Then Community Voice, and this month it comes from Ellucian. Nathan Phelps, Principal Architect at Ellucian, joins us to discuss The Road to an Agentic Software Factory: Lessons from Building One. Nathan set out to answer a practical question: what does it take to build an AI-driven software factory with the tools enterprises already have? He’ll share a hands-on experiment that connected AI coding agents to existing development infrastructure to run the SDLC end to end, from the first work item to a reviewed pull request. Along the way he learned that orchestrating agents is only the beginning. The harder problems show up around organizational context, governance, visibility, and turning these workflows into something enterprise-ready.

You’ll learn:

• What it looks like to orchestrate the SDLC from work item to reviewed pull request
• Why orchestration is the easy part, and where the real challenges start
• What it takes to scale agentic workflows into enterprise-ready capabilities

What we’ll cover

• What shipped: a walkthrough of recent releases and changes
• Community Voice: Nathan Phelps from Ellucian on lessons from building an Agentic Software Factory
• What’s next on the roadmap, and the community priorities shaping it
• Q&A with the team