Robert Marchiori, general manager, group transformation at ANZ, ultimately hopes that other divisions within the bank will also take on Agile practices, aiming for finance and risk to be next in the NWOW set up.

“Squads” and “tribes”

Marchiori spoke of how when dividing up the teams, he had created “squads” and “tribes”. Commenting at the Agile Australia conference in Sydney, Marchiori discussed how the organisation of teams using Agile had resulted in less “layers” throughout the company. He said that now, there is more of a direct link between juniors and heads in the business.

In further discussing Agile specifics at the conference, he said that each team does not use Agile in the same way, for example, the T&C team doesn’t use the software in the same way as the technology “squad”.

“The methodology that they use underneath… they’re not going to be necessarily doing Scrum or Lean per se,” he commented. The general manager continued: “They also have operational functions, which are in squads but they’re using obviously more Lean than Agile, because they’re based on queues and things like that.”

It’s not just about the tech

Marchiori really emphasised the importance of the people when implementing new technologies into a company. In his speech, he said: “We took a very conscious decision to really focus on transforming our people first, because it’s the people that change the process and it’s the people that change the technology.”

However, he did also comment on using developing technology at ANZ by saying: “In the technology space, we’re really accelerating our work with cloud, our work with automated pipelines, and our work with enabling the squads to be able to do their work and trying to start that reduction of dependencies that we have built up from a very traditional model.”

A change in working culture

The bank’s executive talent and culture, Kathryn van der Merwe, posted on LinkedIn about the move to use Agile at ANZ. She spoke of how it was a huge shift in the working culture of the bank.

“So far we’ve tossed out the book on ANZ’s dress code, we’ve been supporting ANZ’s shift to new ways of working, we’re supporting our leaders to grow and thrive by introducing new ways to lead programs, and we’re making sure our people have access to the latest and greatest digital learning platforms,” she said in the post.

van der Merwe also said that by using Agile practices, the bank hoped to be able to give their employees a higher quality and quicker value in services.

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Representing a commitment by Nuvias to accelerate the growth of its DevOps business, the new partnership is to expand Github’s enterprise customer base across the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

The software development platform is a web-based Git version control tool and repository for code development, providing access control and collaboration features such as feature requests, bug tracking, wikis and task management.

Paul Eccleston, CEO of Nuvias Group, said: “Software and applications are now the heart of business and the basis for digital transformation, innovation and efficiency.

“With businesses needing to deliver quality applications quickly so they can compete and gain market share, GitHub will be at the centre of our portfolio of integrated tools and services to enable collaborative development, quality, security, automation and user-experience monitoring.”

From start-ups to global teams of thousands, development teams can harness the GitHub platform to discover, use and contribute to projects more effectively, regardless of organisation or geography.

Catherine King, channel manager at GitHub, added: “GitHub Business allows companies large and small to collaborate on important projects more effectively, improving productivity within their development teams.

“With Nuvias’ focus on accelerating its DevOps business, this partnership will help more companies across the globe get the most from their GitHub deployments, whether they choose the hosted option or on-premise.”

Eccleston also noted GitHub allows companies to multiply forces and employ 1000s of developers on improving and optimising code.

Written from press release by Leah Alger

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The accelerated, automated purchasing process for SignalFX on AWS marketplace allows faster services for cloud operation teams to gain real-time comprehensive views across AWS environments, applications and containers.

SignalFx’s availability on AWS Marketplace simplifies the ability to gain operational intelligence, including workload and usage patterns, and delivers noise-free, actionable alters powered by real-time analytics.

Dave McCann, vice president at AWS Marketplace, Catalog Services and Amazon Web Services, said: “SignalFx provides a leading solution that our customers can leverage to gain end-to-end visibility across AWS.

“Our customers want easy-to-use SaaS solutions like SignalFx, now available on AWS Marketplace, to understand the performance of their entire environment.”

Chief commercial officer at SignalFx, Marc Cranney, added: “As organisations of every size accelerate their investment in the cloud and modern technology platforms like containers, their operations teams must support a substantially higher rate of change and manage a more complex web of interdependencies across teams.

“SignalFx’s availability on AWS Marketplace makes it easy for cloud operators to get the real-time visibility and actionable insight they need to proactively deal with issues as they emerge, without taking away the freedom and flexibility that their development teams need.”

Written from press release by Leah Alger

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