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Analysing cloud providers’ infrastructure management – the bank perspective

Analysing cloud providers’ infrastructure management – the bank perspective


04 Nov 2021

Speaking with two banks with also almost opposite roles and histories, we try to understand how clou...

Agile Series: Building infrastructure

Agile Series: Building infrastructure

Andrew Smith
29 Sep 2021

Recently I have been approached by a few people that agree with all my previous posts on agile, howe...

The Global Open Finance Challenge to lure cream of the fintech crop

The Global Open Finance Challenge to lure cream of the fintech crop


22 Sep 2021

The recent announcement of the Global Open Finance Challenge has caused a stir across the fintech la...

Agile series: Evolved roadmaps

Agile series: Evolved roadmaps

Andrew Smith
08 Jul 2021

In my last post within this series, I looked at roadmaps and how to build them in an agile environme...

The power of platforms and how banks can become one

The power of platforms and how banks can become one

Annerie Vreugdenhil
07 Jul 2021

When Apple launched its iPhone in 2007, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG were generati...

Agile Series: Building roadmaps

Agile Series: Building roadmaps

Andrew Smith
14 May 2021

The first, and probably most important thing to stress here is, you are building product roadmaps. T...

Agile Series: Including risk, compliance and internal audit

Agile Series: Including risk, compliance and internal audit

Andrew Smith
05 May 2021

This maybe the most 'controversial' article within this series, but it's potentially the one that co...

Agile Series: DevOps

Agile Series: DevOps

Andrew Smith
15 Apr 2021

In all of the articles that make up this “Agile Series”, a fair few of the same themes keep on flowi...

Agile Series: Enabling agile with your software architecture

Agile Series: Enabling agile with your software architecture

Andrew Smith
31 Mar 2021

If you have the wrong software architecture, then your ability to really implement an agile engineer...

Agile Series: Motivating Engineers

Agile Series: Motivating Engineers

Andrew Smith
18 Mar 2021

If you have spent most of your working life outside any form of IT department or engineering team, y...

Agile Series: Applying your values and principles

Agile Series: Applying your values and principles

Andrew Smith
05 Mar 2021

In the previous article, we looked at underlying core values and setting principles to help create t...

Agile Series: Agile values and principles

Agile Series: Agile values and principles

Andrew Smith
19 Feb 2021

When we talk 'agile' there are a few big issues that I notice, especially from management and the ex...