Post Bank implements cultural Agile

Post Bank made Agile a component of development of IT as this methodology allows to accelerate implementation of new products and to make it more managed, simple and intensive. Told TAdviser in September, 2016 about it Andrey Frolov, the adviser to the president of Post Bank for IT.

This approach corresponds to the main objectives of development of retail bank: quick start of convenient products and also continuous and reliable customer service, Frolov noted. The Post Bank created at the beginning of 2016 based on Summer of Bank in not the so long-term future is going to become one of the largest banks in Russia. Development of its branch network assumes opening in 2016-2018 about 15 thousand client centers in departments of a mail service. Besides, Post Bank will be provided in all client centers, racks of sales and POS points Summer of Bank.

In July Post Bank invited the consultant for rendering implementation services of flexible methodologies of management of Agile in the organization by purchase execution of these services^[1] at the only supplier -Ikstrek companies (works under the ScrumTrek brand).

Services are rendered in a format of coaching of pilot commands. Within the contract the contractor should hold seminars for heads and project teams of Post Bank, help in the organization of joint work over big products and project portfolios of the company, to render assistance in search, the analysis and the system solution of the problems arising at commands, to help with application engineering the practician on the real project, etc.

Post Bank employed the consultant for Agile-development implementation

Andrey Frolov notes that at a certain stage, at the beginning of the development, in bank (at that time - at Summer of Bank) development on Agile was conducted.

If to analyze development of the small companies, small banks, then right at the beginning it is always Agile: people gather, solve something, set reasonable tasks, reasonable time of their solution. When the organizations grow, they become more bureaucratical. This general rule. It is very important to save entrepreneurial spirit and "engine" for advance, and Agile allows to make it, - the representative of Post Bank says.

According to him, the bank analyzed the activity and came to a conclusion that when he was engaged in development of IT in Agile, was successful and dynamic. Now the bank decided to formalize this philosophy and to deliver on "more cultural rails".

Especially important at Agile implementation participation of the top management of the organization, Andrey Frolov considers: when some employees profess philosophy of intensive development, and first of all it is important for others that nothing happened, there is an adverse situation, he considers.

The methodology of Agile is applied by a number of large Russian banks. Among them, for example,Alfa-Bank and "Home Credit Bank". Large-scale transformation on the Agile model is conducted in Sberbank at the suggestion of the president of bank German Gref.

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