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The Branch Merge Hell Team Lived With – A Bank Agile Case Study 1/n

by ShriKant Vashishtha 4 Comments


Lots of organizations are desperately trying to bring agility in their enterprise IT. In such cases,  enterprise IT stands on the worn pillars of traditional Waterfall process and legacy products.

The business in such orgs sees IT as a black hole where no business need can escape from inside it. The reason being, traditional process, and legacy systems take months of cycle time to deliver almost any business need.

This results in a frustrated and desperate stakeholders who threaten to try anything or everything under the sun to get tangible outcomes.

This case-study is a story of a bank which was almost on the verge of outsourcing its entire IT. The bank since has moved on to become one of the pioneers in banking innovation space. It focuses to serve its customers every day with innovation and agility in a faster paced competitive ecosystem.
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#noprojects with Cross Functional Feature Teams

by ShriKant Vashishtha 1 Comment

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Sometimes #noprojects (deliver continuous change successfully without using a project) approach alone may not be enough for a software product. This is especially true for large enterprises where any valid business outcome requires close interactions of multiple software products.

In such cases, problem is how to resolve dependencies among software products. First approach which is also very common, is to agree upon a software interfacing contracts between software products. Each individual team then work in isolation while keeping other team’s software contract in mind. When done, teams integrate pieces together.
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