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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Introduction

  • Understanding the friction between Agile and regulated environments.
  • Dispelling common myths, such as the belief that Agile eliminates documentation or is incompatible with regulatory acceptance.

Regulation as a Product Requirement

  • Translating regulatory obligations into actionable backlog items.
  • Incorporating compliance criteria into the Definition of Done.
  • Aligning regulatory deadlines with sprint and release planning.

Governance and Documentation

  • Determining the essential elements of governance.
  • Creating lightweight documentation that fulfils audit requirements.
  • Ensuring full traceability from requirement definition to final delivery.

Collaborating with Control Functions and Vendors

  • Engaging risk, compliance, legal, and IT security stakeholders early in the process.
  • Navigating Agile delivery within the constraints of external vendors and fixed-price contracts.

Agile in the Public Sector

  • Balancing public procurement regulations with Agile delivery methods.
  • Applying Agile principles in EU-funded programmes and projects.

Case Studies

  • Optimising digital lending at a bank: reducing application time from over 30 minutes to just five.
  • Analyzing successful transformations and learning from failed implementations.

Practice

  • Team-based exercise: Planning and executing a regulated product change.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with core Agile or Scrum principles.
  • Professional experience within or alongside regulated entities, such as banks, insurers, payment institutions, or public administration bodies.

Target Audience

  • Managers and team leads in banking, insurance, and payment service providers.
  • Product Owners, project managers, and programme managers.
  • Business analysts and process owners.
  • Compliance, risk, and public administration specialists collaborating with delivery teams.

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