The lunch of big corporate IT is being stolen by smaller, nimbler companies. Big IT, with its greater resources, should have crushed the competition. Rather it is playing catch-up. But things are changing. There is a quiet revolution in corporate IT. Big organisations are learning from small companies and are beginning to use it at scale. Goliath is back but acting like David.
All this change leaves the corporate manager at a loss as to what tools to use. Big IT, especially banks, is stuck in a world of waterfall development where plans are rather rigid, risk management is paramount and new functionality to the customer is few and far between. The aim of this article is to provide a toolbox of different methodologies that can be used to transform Big IT. For the sake of simplicity, let’s refer to our toolbox of methodologies as the “New Ways of Working”.
Our starting point is an exploration of the different elements of the New Ways of Working (Figure 1). This was adapted from Gartner’s framework for DevOps.
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