Any Financial Institutions Doing Scrum and/or Agile?
Hi,
My organization (a Credit Union) has been trying to adopt Scrum and Agile for some time now with mixed and varying results. I'd really like to visit with other Financial Institutions that have been down this path to learn from them; successes, failures, what worked, what didn't work, how they overcame the various obstacles, what standards and processes worked for them, etc. I see the massive potential of benefits we can reap here, but things just aren't clicking. I want to be part of changing that for good. Would anybody out there be willing to talk and/or have me tag along a bit and learn?
Thanks,
Marcus
Most banks if not all in Europe at least use Scrum, and ING went as far as trying Spotify Model.
Hello Marcus! I was involved with the WPS Health Solutions (health insurance) successful rollout of Scrum in the Human Resources area in 2019. A WPS whitepaper/case study can be found on Gartner for WPS. I am now with UW Credit Union in Madison WI as the People Technology Manager and we are evaluating Scrum. I am piloting a Scrum Team on a separate initiative also and we are in Sprint 2, and believe this will be successful. If you look at my profile, find a scrum.org certified scrum trainer to deliver the Applying Professional Scrum to persons that will be Scrum Masters and Product Owners. Second, coaching directly with teams prior to sprint 1 and during first three sprints is also suggested. Third, create a team agreement by sprint 5 to help the team(s) past the forming phase and into norming. Fourth, don't worry about the past failures, once you get the right approach, it will work. Don't worry about a perfect sprint 1 either. Get leaders to set a date and let the teams practice, but don't give up. Lastly, we use Azure DevOps for artifacts. Be sure to have your artifact tool ready to go and use a train the trainer approach for deploying those to teams.
Thank you all for your advice, I do appreciate it.