Introducing the Orbium Agile Practice Orbium 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 Teal Whole Organisation Agility Key stakeholder / buyer: CEO, COO Potentially thousands of people Scrum, Kanban, DevOps Technology / Software focus Key stakeholder / buyer: Dev Manager 3 - 12 Person teams Digital and Innovation Characterised by FinTechs, disruption, blockchain, cryptocurrency, AI, Big Data, robotics, cloud, and new business models SAFE, LESS, DAD, Spotify, Scrum-of-Scrums Large Scale within Technology / IT Department Key stakeholder / buyer: CIO / CTO Possibly hundreds of people