Agile and Lean have proven success in small and new companies, where these methods and way of thinking became a de-facto standard.

After the transition of small companies goes next wave, which changes large scale enterprises, including biggest investment banks with thousands people. Such changes are huge, and often require redesign of organizations, change in thinking and stereotypes.

In this presentation the speaker will give a minimum toolkit that is crucial for successful transformation of big distributed groups to Agile. The following topics will be covered: building relationships with the clients, management, leadership, team structures, education, tools and infrastructure.

As the basis for this presentation there will be shown an example of successful transformation of group of projects with 150+ people in one of the biggest investment banks.  There will be described a proven approach based on cross-component, cross-functional feature teams, joined architectural workshops and multiple backlogs. Approach that allowed 15+ teams, working together in the same code base in 4 locations at 3 vendors, be capable to produce new version of stable product every second week.

Author: Konstantin Gurnov

Head of Agile Practice, Luxoft

Konstantin Gurnov

Konstantin Gurnov is Head of Agile Practice in the Luxoft company. In his current role, Konstantin is actively involved in consulting clients and mentoring agile community inside the company. He has more than 10 years of professional IT experience in various industries such as Investment Banking, Energy and Media. Konstantin is passionate about building highly productive teams and helping high scale enterprises with their transition to Agile. He is an active supporter of the Agile wave in Eastern Europe.