FINRA, the regulatory association formed by the merger of NASD and NYSE, faced an enormous challenge. In just over a year, the software development group quadrupled in both number of projects (8 to 25) and people (50 to 200), doubling again in the next year and a half to 50 projects and 400 people. We learned how they transformed a historically waterfall organization to:
The discussion was led by Larry Fitzpatrick, SVP of Software Development, and leader of FINRA’s Software Factory organization. Larry is a career software developer who has “worked the entire stack” from system architecture, design, and development. Prior to joining FINRA, Larry was the Technology Vice-President at Open Text Software (OTEX) and Chief Technology Officer at Personal Library Software. He has an MS in Biomedical Engineering (Informatics) from The University of Virginia.
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