Legacy financial organisations (viz. BFSI – Banking, Financial Services and Insurance enterprises) operate in a regulatory and high-risk environment. This session discusses some of the organisational dysfunctions such companies experience during their Agile transformational journey.

The session will help you understand and empathize with such dysfunctions and some possible mitigation patterns. Sample dysfunctions below:

• There are multiple middle management layers which are redundant and mostly resistant to change.
• Huge upfront planning and big-bang delivery model is practiced.
• Rewards and Recognition of individual performances still exists.
• Command and Control mode of working still exists. For example, Scrum teams do not have the liberty to conduct Retrospectives.
• Business teams are not aligned with IT teams.

The speakers’ experience is accumulated over the years while working with multiple and large financial organisations across the globe.

Exepedia is an Agile coaching model that was innovated during the Agile coaches retreat in India during Feb'17.

In an organisational Agile transformation, one of the biggest reasons for failure is lack of alignment by various departments and their leaders. In many cases, engineering teams are Agile while leaders are still catching up.

By leveraging this model, Agile coaches and Scrum Masters can help business leaders to co-create a shared transformation vision; and a collaborative plan for organisational alignment. Scrum Masters and Coaches can leverage this model to coach executives, senior leaders and managers. The model consists of a set of workshops (a mix of collaborative group workshops, one-one discussions, questionnaires etc.).

It perceives organisational transformation in three stages - Know, Believe and Achieve - and conceptualizes the various activities during the three stages.

The proposed session helps you experience Exepedia, in a workshop style.