As the world responds to the impact of COVID-19, the work environment is going through a major change. Over the last few weeks, many Insurance carriers have successfully migrated to distributed work environment with project teams working from home, believed to be the New Normal.

Insurance carriers are rethinking their software delivery strategy to ensure efficient and effective operations. With global workforce connected remotely, enterprises must recalibrate their existing ways of working, platforms and collaboration mechanisms for sustained business continuity.

Insurance organizations, who have been following a hybrid i.e. mix of agile and traditional model for delivery, are looking forward to leverage more from their current investments in agile tools and technologies. This is expected to improve cost of delivery, productivity and velocity. Agile and DevOps adoption will help them to adapt faster to a highly distributed work environment, however there are certain challenges to be considered:

• Potential security and data leak if security controls are not installed and monitored
• Differentiated access availability (to systems and tools) between employees and partners
• Communication breakdown due to absence of proper infrastructure and network bandwidth
• High clarification turnaround time in the absence of just-in-time information availability
• Ensuring continued availability of requisite skills and resources to meet delivery timelines
• Overworked / underworked teams without proper working norms leading to defects/loss of productivity

Wipro’s Agile Anywhere Framework: Redefining agility and collaboration

Wipro’s Agile Anywhere Framework not only addresses these challenges but also helps teams to closely replicate the collaboration that an actual co-location offers.

Agile Anywhere is about increasing transparency allowing for a single version of truth, providing zero touch execution and reducing the dependence on individuals for creating self-organized and empowered teams, increasing productivity and improving cost of delivery through faster turnaround time and less time spent on wasteful activities.

The 5 facets of Agile Anywhere Framework

A. Infrastructure and security

Device agnostic remote working experience through Wipro's VirtuaDesk backed by enterprise-grade security enforced through zero trust principle

B. Engineering agility

Enable zero touch execution through Wipro's Digital Rig Workbench, a fully integrated DevSecOps platform for all engineering activities from design to deployment

C. Continuous flow

Consultative approach to define best practices across development lifecycle to minimize risks along the critical path and to enable distributed governance

D. New ways of working

Re-define and customize agile practices to the needs of your distributed teams to drive a structured approach towards self-organization

E. High impact collaboration

Leverage a host of pre-integrated collaboration tools to maximize your team's productivity