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Building Stations • 04/09/2015 ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORDEA Large Scale Agile @ Nordea – building the new Core Banking Platform - Stories from the trenches
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Building Stations
for CBP
• 04/09/2015
ONCE
UPON A
TIME IN
NORDEA
Large Scale Agile @ Nordea – building the new Core Banking Platform
- Stories from the trenches
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Frank Olsen 3rd level Agile coach, Core Banking Programme
Piet Syhler 2nd level Agile coach in Core Banking Programme
Nathalie Hammering DSM for CBP Pilot in Core Banking Programme
Why building the new Core Banking Platform?
3 •
T24
2015 - 2020
1,000 people from + 25
countries in 6 different
locations
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• The need for planning and predictability
• Building up a learning organisation
• Self-organizing result in paralysis
• The local optimization thinking mistake
• Mr Best Fast
The case today:
Pilot - to test and learn
• Technology
• Integrations
• Planning & WoW
• Organisation
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The starting point The execution The learnings
The Iron Triangle
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The starting point The execution The learnings
CBP Programme
Delivery Stream Organisation
Delivery Stream
”PO” ”PO” DS
PO ”PO” ”PO” ”PO”
Test Test Test Test Test
Tech Tech Tech Tech Tech DS
AC DS
Test
Delivery Stream
”PO” ”PO” DS
PO ”PO” ”PO” ”PO”
Test Test Test Test Test
Tech Tech Tech Tech Tech DS
AC DS
Test
Delivery Stream
”PO” DS
PO ”PO” ”PO” ”PO”
Test Test Test Test Test
Tech Tech Tech Tech Tech DS
AC DS
Test
3rd Level
• Optimize flow and coordinate at
programme level and across streams
• Escalation path
Stream Leadership Team
• Ensure flow & alignment
within stream
• Drive improvements
Cross Functional
Feature Teams
”PO”
DS
Tech
DS
Tech
DS
Tech
DSM
DSM
DSM
Rel
Mgn
Tech
Lead
QM
CAC
CPO
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Big bang vs ramping/seeding
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VS
Team formation & self organization
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VS
Agile Coach vs Scrum Master
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VS
2 Planning Cadences
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TEAM LEVEL PLANNING STREAM LEVEL PLANNING
2 WKS
10 WKS
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The starting point The execution The learnings
Achievements
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Fast scaling – 1
month to onboard
and train +100
people, form teams
and set up delivery
stream
Vendor
collaboration
- From 1st to
3rd level
CoPs – AC’s,
Testers, Tech
leads, POs
Pilot product
deployed to PROD on
time – 7 calendar
months from team
formation to delivery
Travel & Co-
location
Learnings (1/3)
The need for planning and predictability
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The Iron Triangle
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Learnings (2/3)
The S-curves
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People side of change Learning curve
• Agile WoW - mindset
• New technology
• 3 partners, +25 nationalities,
6 locations
• Scale
• Limited time
• Cannot be forced
Learnings (3/3)
SME culture -> specialisation + batch sizes
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SME culture -> team
specialisation and
dependencies
Too big batch sizes distributed
to teams -> one team scrum
mindset
+
Questions
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