Introducing the Orbium Agile PracticeOrbium is establishing the Agile Practice service line in Asia. This article gives a brief overview of why and what we plan to do in this space. The Agile practice serves banking, financial services, and other industry clients.

Why Now?The Financial Services industry faces many challenges, the solutions to which may be found in an Agile approach: • Adaptation to the rapid rate of change. VUCA - Volatility,

Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity which describes what the industry is facing with FinTech disruptors. Use of Agile methods and Digital transformation brings the speed of adaptation required.

• Decentralisation introduced by blockchain and cryptocurrency. Here, innovation and Digital services are key. Organisations must develop and evolve solutions in a matter of weeks or months, not years.

• Establishment of new business models and regaining trust after the 2008 “Great Recession”. The industry needs support in adoption decentralised “trustless” and other technologies which are enjoying widespread acceptance today.

As can be seen below, there are three primary waves of Agile, and a fourth that is more a parallel innovation and digital / technology focus. Different markets hit different stages of maturity at different times. The Orbium Agile Practice focuses on Waves 2 and 3 – Agile at Scale and Business Agility.

Wave 4 –Digital Innovation

Wave 3 –Business Agility

Wave 2 –Agile at Scale

Wave 1 –Team Level

Orbium’s Agile Practice will support clients in adapting to both a fast pace of change and disruption in the marketplace by offering training, coaching, leadership consulting and certification to clients and enabling digital delivery.

Orbium Agile Practice

Modern Agile, Lean Start-up, ING Netherlands,Shift to TealWhole Organisation AgilityKey stakeholder / buyer: CEO, COOPotentially thousands of people

Scrum, Kanban, DevOpsTechnology / Software focusKey stakeholder / buyer: Dev Manager3 - 12 Person teams

Digital and InnovationCharacterised by FinTechs, disruption,blockchain, cryptocurrency, AI, Big Data,robotics, cloud, and new business models

SAFE, LESS, DAD, Spotify, Scrum-of-ScrumsLarge Scale within Technology / IT DepartmentKey stakeholder / buyer: CIO / CTOPossibly hundreds of people

Next stepsMany organisations have already established a few Agile teams, but are now struggling to scale this up in their organisation. Often traditional ways of working make Agile teams far less effective than they could be, and frustrates progress with Agile. Orbium’s Agile Practice helps companies to scale to the second and thirds waves of Agile, and to be prepared for the fourth wave of Digital Innovation. Our Agile Practice offers the following services:• Executive Agile Leadership and Business

Agility Consulting • Enterprise Agile Coaching (Executives,

Management, Teams)

About Orbium

Orbium helps banks and wealth managers realise their strategy and execution priorities. Widely recognised for exceptional commitment, the firm helps clients to realise revenue growth and efficiency gains through innovation and industrialisation. By effectively blending business and technology consulting with software products and strong partnerships, Orbium enables clients to focus on what matters most: their own success.

The firm has over 500 employees located in the world’s key financial centres: New York, London, Zurich, Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Luxembourg, Paris, Sydney, Berlin, Warsaw and Manila.

www.orbium.com

Contact

John OkoroHead of Agile Practicejohn.okoro@orbium.com

Orbium Agile Practice

• Agile and DevOps Team Coaching• Agile and DevOps Certification Training

– Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4) – IC Agile - (DevOps Foundations, Agile Project Management) › Agile Coaching, Business Agility, and Agile Fundamentals certifications coming soon

• Design Sprints (*Using Google Ventures Design Sprint)• Non-Certified Agile Training (Scrum, ScrumXP,

Scrumban, Kanban, Product Owner)• Organisation / Team Agile Assessment