AN AGILE POWERHOUSE
NATIONWIDE
for a lower cost , he says this plan hopes to not only help Nationwide achieve its business goals , but it will also reimagine the customer journey .
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AN AGILE POWERHOUSE
Keeping its finger on the pulse of the latest business strategies , Nationwide began its software development transformation a decade ago . In 2009 , the firm centralized its IT function , sharing areas such as its data centers , infrastructure , security platforms and more . In fact , it also realized it could centralize and optimize the methodology and practices used in software development – the same year , Nationwide made its first foray into Agile methodology . Whilst Agile wasn ’ t new , it was now broadly adopted across all its enterprises for the first time . For Guru , the next step was to see if Agile could work for large transformation programs . “ Our experimentation with Agile goes back a long time ago when we had small teams experimenting with this methodology ,” Vasudeva recalls . “ But we wanted to see if we could scale Agile at an enterprise level . In other words , could we start using it for almost all software development ?”
“ We brought these Agile teams together and asked them if they could harmonize the methodology . That ’ s because we believed
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