Cloud: ANZ shifts from ‘tactical projects’ to ‘an industrialised factory’
ANZ now looks at cloud computing through the prism of “an industrialised factory” rather than “tactical projects,” the bank’s tech chief said today.
ANZ now looks at cloud computing through the prism of “an industrialised factory” rather than “tactical projects,” the bank’s tech chief said today.
ANZ’s high-profile agile transformation program – dubbed New Ways of Working, or NWOW – has seen thousands of the bank’s employees shift into tribes, squads and guilds. The program is ANZ's response to the banking sector facing emerging challenges in the form of fintechs, as well as the changing expectations of customers.
The 600 employees in ANZ’s Talent & Culture division are moving to adopt agile ways of organising themselves as part of the bank’s ‘New Ways of Working’ (NWOW) transformation program.
ANZ is beginning to employ a management framework developed by Andrew Groves at Intel and famously employed at Google, as well as at other tech heavyweights including LinkedIn and Twitter, to help promote alignment across its business as it continues its move towards an agile operating model based on semi-autonomous teams.
An Optus spokesperson has confirmed that it expects to around 200 redundancies from changes to its consumer business.
From July this year Telstra plans to begin its largescale transition to an “Agile at scale” model, according to the telco’s HR head.
Bankwest says that its shift to Agile methodologies allowed it to roll out a new feature for its mobile app in the space of an hour.
In FY18 ANZ decommissioned 264 applications as part of the bank’s broader simplification push.
In the Australian business landscape, many executives are feeling the pressure to accelerate speed to market by becoming Agile.
“A key pillar of our strategy is the engagement of our people, enabling a high-performance culture and developing the capability of our teams. Our new workplace at 420 George Street supports this strategy..." says Investa CEO.
Rapid growth over the six years since Ladbrokes Australia launched has meant that the wagering company is left dealing with a not insignificant level of technical debt, according to Alistair Roberts
Back in 2014, private equity firm Thoma Bravo agreed to take legacy mainframe software mainstay Compuware back into private ownership in a US$2.5 billion deal.
Guide Dogs Victoria (GDV) is planning to build a Siri-style platform designed specifically to cater to the needs of blind and low-vision people.
ANZ’s digital group will triple the reach of the bank’s DevOps transformation over the next four months after early results confirmed the initiative had produced “fantastic” improvements for 2000 business and technology people since it went live eight weeks ago.
ANZ group CEO Shayne Elliott says the bank has so far shifted more than 3000 employees in its Australian and technology divisions into teams that use Agile methodologies and aims to boost that figure to 13,000 by the end of the year.