Bank signs ELA for full suite plus ‘strategic thinking’ assistance
ANZ bank has partnered
with Atlassian to leverage the software-maker’s suite of collaboration and development tools, as well as its agile-working
expertise.
The bank announced it
had signed an Enterprise Licence Agreement to use Atlassian’s full range of
products – including Jira and Confluence, and development tools Bitbucket and
Bamboo – to “help drive its agile-based transformation”.
As part of the deal –
the terms of which have not been disclosed – Atlassian will also provide “dedicated
resources” to help the bank with its “strategic thinking” around agile working.
ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott, in
May last year, announced the bank would be moving to its own brand of ‘scaled
agile’ named New
Ways of Workings .
The organisational style and associated methodologies will
help the bank respond more quickly to customer needs, create higher staff
engagement and boost efficiency it believes.
The bank’s technology
division is currently implementing New Ways of Working, and already using
Atlassian tools.
“We are already well
into our agile transformation at ANZ and working closely with Atlassian will
help accelerate our progress in continuing to turn a 180-year-old organisation
into a workplace for the digital economy,” said ANZ group executive technology
Gerard Florian.
“Atlassian has a reputation
for developing and delivering world-class software solutions, but also a
different way of thinking about agile-based work, so this relationship is about
more than great software for us,” Florian added.
In
May, Elliott revealed 3000 employees were
already working in Agile teams and that he expected some 13,000
employees to have adopted the approach by the end of the year.
“Shifting an
organisation’s way of thinking is really hard, especially when it’s the
combined thinking of more than 40,000 people,” said Dom Price, head of R&D
and ‘workplace futurist’ at Atlassian.
“You have to be open to
really succeed in switching to an agile mindset, and it’s great to see that
openness to change, even when it’s tough, from ANZ,” he added.
The change to the bank’s ways of working is also expected to
thaw what ANZ group executive of digital banking Maile Carnegie called the “ frozen middle ” management layer
who will “resist change like death”. Elliott has confirmed that jobs will be lost as a result of the transformation.
A number of
organisations are adopting organisation-wide agile-working; domestically, the likes of Australia Post, Telstra, AGL, ING and
ANZ’s banking rivals are realising the benefits .
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