Four business enterprise agility methodologies
The term business enterprise agility has become very common in the industry and refers to the incumbent’s ability to adapt rapidly to external environment changes, such as customer behavior, competitive rivalry, and new technological advancements, as mentioned in Chapter 1, The Banking Context and DevOps Value Proposition. Responding rapidly to events in the external environment requires agility in the internal business environment. For example, suppose there are French presidential elections taking place this coming Sunday and polls predict the victory of a candidate that global markets do not seem to favor. Therefore, you should be able to predict the volatility of Monday’s markets and perhaps proactively handle the capacity of your trading systems, adjust the thresholds on your services’ monitoring, double-check your auto-healing mechanism, conduct the markets opening operational readiness check earlier, and even...