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Carmody says , “ Agile will continue to become even more distributed ; this is particularly true in COVID times where collaboration tools and remote working have been adopted .”
He believes this trend will further motivate the need for agility across the entire organisation and not for development purposes .
“ Now , we can deliver minimum viable product features quickly and iterate frequently ”
“ Lean concepts will also permeate further across other processes and not just R & D . These philosophies will extend to project management and ultimately selling motion . IPC sees this happening with our customers with the need to support new trading paradigms and rapid technology adoption aided by API First design , Open Platforms and solutions such as IPC Agility .”
However , Strickland-Wright says the biggest shift occurred a decade ago when fintech first drew breath .
“ I think this revolution was 10 years ago . It ’ s been and gone , and now people are looking at where delivery goes next .
“ The stand out for me over the last two to three years is having a development or engineering function that is split into platform-based teams .”
The types of tools available , he points out , are also a game-changer . “ I think back 10 years when I was working on a project for a greenfield system . It was a blank piece of paper . We cherry-picked the tools we wanted to use . Now we see cloud service providers getting together and building multi-tool solutions for folk like us . “ We ’ ve now got things like Azure Dev Ops , which is all of these things , all rolled into one but only one budget line and one vendor rather than multiple . It accelerates development .”
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