Stories from the trenches: Building product teams beyond organizational and geographical boundaries

We will share our practical experiences and give concrete examples from our work with multi-site teams that build one solution and deliver value to customers across different European markets.
Our talk is based on real-life stories and lessons learned from two banking products in a huge international banking corporation: lending and foreign exchange. We will tell the story through real-life examples, showing how we designed multi-site team setup and it's collaboration model for two banking products in highly regulated financial environment.
Despite huge organizational constraints, such as cumbersome and highly regulated business processes, different cultures, language barriers, we found a collaboration model that helps us continuously deliver customer value.
We are far away from being done as business goals are ambitious and our products are still in growth phase. Here are some challenges that we still need to overcome:
o Focusing on removing organizational constraints in new markets for better e2e team setup
o Evolving architecture for easier integration
o Continuously improving collaboration model
We are inviting you to come and get inspired by our learnings. This session will be of benefit to anyone involved in transformations and interested in learning how agile helped huge financial group.
Learning outcomes:
• Learn how we bring product ideas to life across a range of different markets.
• Find out how to build a product group that works together across countries in a big bank.
• Discover how to leverage the traditional banking world while staying relevant and competitive with fintechs.