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How AstraZeneca uses GitHub copilot

9-10 hours

“engineers are getting 9-10 hours of extra output per week”

As published on github.com, November 2025. Captured by usedby on Oct 2, 2026.

What happened

AstraZeneca unified its developers, data scientists and researchers on GitHub Enterprise and uses GitHub Copilot, including agent mode and the coding agent, in daily development work. Copilot was rolled out after legal, cybersecurity and ethics reviews, with team-based training.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of GitHub copilot and AstraZeneca, not ours.

  • 40%“The impact was big: by learning to use Copilot’s agent mode in their daily work, pilot squads saw an immediate 40% increase in development velocity.”
  • 1,600“A goal to onboard 1,000 users within a year was shattered in just six months, with over 1,600 developers and scientists onboarded, and active usage growing by 20% per month.”

The impact was big: by learning to use Copilot’s agent mode in their daily work, pilot squads saw an immediate 40% increase in development velocity.

From the page. github.com, captured Oct 2, 2026

GitHub Copilot delivered immediate impact. Achieving return on investment within a single sprint cycle rarely occurs with technology implementations.

Paul Ordman, Director of Software Engineering, AstraZeneca. Source, captured Oct 2, 2026

What the story claims, and what we checked

We compared the story with its live page on Oct 3, 2026.

  • The figure: 9-10 hoursCheckedPrinted word for word on the page, near the name of AstraZeneca.
  • The passage quoted aboveCheckedCopied word for word from the page, near the name of AstraZeneca.
  • The publication dateCheckedRead from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
  • AstraZeneca uses GitHub copilotCheckedConfirmed line. Latest check across sources: Oct 5, 2026.
  • The result itselfNot checkedWe quote it; we did not measure it.

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