Track: Project Management

Abstract

The concept of “Agile” originated nearly three decades ago from the software development and project management disciplines and existing presently in diverse forms and levels is an intriguing research arena that has wider scope and implications. Agile as a method has germinated into various forms such as scrum, kanban, scaled agile framework (SAFe), large-scale scrum (LeSS), spotify model, continuous integration, scaled agile lean development (SCALeD), and many more. Agile initially adopted in an isolated software development and team level, has over the years progressed into projects and programs, and furthered into solutions and portfolios, and achieved full-service expansion into an enterprise level framework. It has been proposed in this article to undertake a novel approach to survey the literatures of agile methods, models, and practices from software development and modeling to large-scale case study organization level in a less explored banking and financial services sectors. Outcome of this study highlights the causal factors, best practices, benefits along with learnings that practitioners of banking and financial services sectors could adopt and envision while planning for a less turbulent agile implementation.