Burkhard Perkens-Golomb is the global owner of Munich Re’s methodology for application development, holistically including and aligning aspects of all involved disciplines. He is also a member of the advisory board of SEMAT, an initiative to drive and evolve OMG’s standard ESSENCE for working with methods in software engineering. Before he worked as a developer, IT Architect and IT Strategist at consultancies and Munich Re.
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Standardisation and governance are crucial for the success of large-scale agile organisations since there are several concerns like UX design, security, technology stack decisions and architecture principles that must be solved consistently across all teams. Recently, the adoption of digital platforms in organisations or new regulatory requirements in the financial industry make this even more important. Standardisation is typically failing in large-scale agile organisations for two reasons.