At this year’s Visual Studio Live! 360 Orlando (Nov 18–19, 2025), the conversation around DevOps took an exciting turn. Modern Requirements, a long-standing Microsoft Solutions and AI Cloud Partner, showcased how Copilot4DevOps is redefining what’s possible inside Azure DevOps, not as futuristic concepts, but as tools delivering measurable transformation today.
The session, titled “Agents at Work: Rethinking Azure DevOps from the Ground Up,” brought together Asif Sharif (CEO & Founder of Modern Requirements), Shihan Fernando (SVP, Global Sales), and Dale WorkForce Solutions (DWS) Implementation Partner, Rebecca Walbecq, to explore how organizations are already leveraging Copilot4DevOps to revolutionize delivery speed, accuracy, and collaboration.
AI, Agents, and the Future of DevOps
Modern Requirements’ journey with AI began in 2022, but in just three years, it has transformed how teams use Azure DevOps. As Shihan shared in his opening remarks, “We set out to make AI not just accessible, but native to Azure DevOps — so every team member could benefit without needing prompt engineering or external integrations.”
This vision led to the creation of Copilot4DevOps, the first AI assistant designed to live within Azure DevOps. Copilot4DevOps is the first and only AI platform built natively inside Azure DevOps, designed to help teams generate, analyze, manage, and automate requirements, testing, traceability, documentation, and DevOps workflows using intelligent agents. It supports every role across the delivery lifecycle, from business analysts and product owners to QA, developers, architects, and compliance teams — all within the secure boundaries of Azure DevOps.
Today, with the launch of its agentic model, the platform is moving far beyond automation — enabling DevOps environments that think, learn, and act alongside teams.
Our goal: help teams start or accelerate their AI-for-DevOps transformation journey with a solution proven in enterprise environments.
100x Productivity: From Ambition to Reality
During the session, CEO Asif Sharif expanded on the evolution of this journey and the real impact Copilot4DevOps has had across industries.
“Three years ago, I asked my teams to target a 2x improvement in productivity. Then 10x. Now, we’re aiming for 100x — and with AI agents, we’re getting there,” Asif told the audience.
He walked through live scenarios demonstrating how Copilot4DevOps agents streamline entire workflows — from generating requirements and test cases to automating code analysis, documentation, and release notes, within leaving Azure DevOps.
These aren’t just conceptual advancements. Asif shared how enterprises in pharmaceuticals, defense, and financial services are already using agents to handle complex compliance workflows, automate validation gates, and create auditable traceability reports that once took weeks, generated in seconds.
“AI doesn’t just help us build things faster,” Asif emphasized. “It helps us build the right things.”
From Fragmented Processes to Living Documentation
The session also highlighted how the real transformation isn’t just technical — it’s human. DWS, one of Modern Requirements’ implementation partners, brought a client-side perspective through Rebecca Walbecq’s story of digital transformation.
Drawing on over 15 years as a business analyst, she described how DWS worked with Modern Requirements to migrate a large enterprise from static, document-heavy processes to fully connected, AI-enabled environments inside Azure DevOps.
“We moved from scattered Word documents and endless version control chaos to living requirements directly tied to work items,” Rebecca explained. “Copilot4DevOps and Modern Requirements didn’t replace analysts — they amplified them.”
Her message was simple but powerful: AI isn’t a threat to analysts — it’s their new teammate.
Partnering With DWS to Drive Successful AI & DevOps Transformation
A key highlight of our Live! 360 Orlando session was showcasing how our strategic partnership with Dale Workforce Solutions (DWS) strengthens the Copilot4DevOps ecosystem and helps enterprise customers adopt AI confidently and sustainably.
DWS is a 100% women-owned consulting and workforce solutions firm with decades of experience supporting large enterprises through complex transformation programs. Their teams bring deep expertise across business analysis, process optimization, DevOps maturity, change management, data strategy, AI enablement, and agentic automation—all of which directly complement the capabilities of Copilot4DevOps.
Together, Modern Requirements and DWS offer a powerful combination:
- Copilot4DevOps provides the AI engine and intelligent agent layer inside Azure DevOps.
- DWS provides the people, processes, and advisory expertise to help organizations successfully implement it.
Through our partnership, clients get hands-on support with:
- Modernizing legacy documentation and requirements practices
- Establishing scalable governance and repeatable workflows
- Building internal readiness and accelerating teamwide adoption
- Integrating AI into existing delivery processes and operating models
- Reducing rework, improving traceability, and raising quality across the DevOps lifecycle
DWS has led implementations for global enterprises—including Fortune-level organizations—and helped them move from static, disconnected documentation to fully connected, AI-supported practices directly inside Azure DevOps. Their consultants understand the realities of enterprise complexity, cultural resistance, regulatory constraints, and the need for both quick wins and long-term stability.
During the session, this transformation was brought to life through real-world examples of how teams using Copilot4DevOps—supported by DWS—shifted from spending 80% of their time on documentation to spending 80% on meaningful analysis and collaboration. That shift is exactly what AI in DevOps is meant to enable.
Our shared philosophy is simple:
Start where the pain is greatest, deliver immediate value, empower teams to co-create with AI, and scale from there.
With Copilot4DevOps as the AI foundation and DWS as the implementation accelerator, organizations can move faster, reduce friction, and unlock the full potential of AI inside Azure DevOps—at a pace that fits their people, processes, and business goals.
A Human-Centered Vision for AI in DevOps
Closing the session, Asif reflected on the broader opportunity before today’s DevOps leaders:
“AI allows us to dream again — to imagine without the fear of how long it’ll take to bring those ideas to life. That’s the true power of agentic systems.”
His remarks underscored Modern Requirements’ philosophy: AI should never remove the human from the loop, but rather empower every team member — developers, analysts, testers, and project managers — to operate at their highest potential.
What This Means for Organizations Moving Forward
For companies exploring AI transformation within Azure DevOps, the takeaway from Live! 360 was clear:
- Azure DevOps is becoming an intelligent ecosystem, not just a toolset.
- AI agents can dramatically reduce rework, friction, and manual handoffs.
- Compliance-heavy industries can transform validation and documentation.
- Multi-role teams (BA, QA, Dev, Compliance) finally have a unified AI layer.
- Implementation partnerships (like DWS) ensure sustainable adoption.
Modern Requirements and Copilot4DevOps are committed to guiding organizations through this evolution—securely, strategically, and with real business impact.
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