Delivery and Operating Model Topic Stream

Practical guidance on designing and assessing delivery and operating models for U.S. banking, aligning agile practices, team capacity, governance, and risk controls.

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Banking Delivery Acceleration Playbook: Speed With Control
February 19, 2026

Banking Delivery Acceleration Playbook: Speed. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Run vs Change the Bank Baselining for Portfolio Governance
February 18, 2026

How executives establish an RTB/CTB baseline that makes funding trade-offs explicit, prevents “change” from becoming permanent run-cost, and enables progress tracking over time

Scoping Open Banking to Open Finance Programs in Banks for 2026
February 18, 2026

How executives baseline domains and workstreams when the perimeter expands from account data to a multi-product, rule-anchored open finance operating model

Baselining Safe Agile Delivery in Banks for 2026
February 18, 2026

How executives establish an objective delivery starting point that is measurable, auditable, and comparable over time

Transformation Workstreams: Definition, Decomposition Patterns, and Banking Examples
February 17, 2026

Transformation Workstreams: Definition. Provides practical guidance to prioritize investments, manage execution risk, and improve transformation outcomes.

Scoring Model Template for Capacity-Constrained Initiative Portfolios
February 16, 2026

Scoring Model Template. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

As-Is Operating Model Assessment for Banks in 2026
February 13, 2026

Current-state documentation artifacts that baseline how work, controls, data, and technology actually operate before modernization

Value and Effort Prioritization for Bank Transformations
February 12, 2026

Value and Effort Prioritization for Bank. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Agile Operating Models in Banking: Where Ambition Meets Capability Gaps
January 29, 2026

Agile Operating Models in Banking: Where Ambition. Defines capability gaps, readiness signals, and concrete actions that turn strategy into executable change.

Prerequisites for Digital Banking Transformation: A Dependency-First Sequencing Guide
January 27, 2026

Prerequisites for Digital Banking. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Platform Team Model Rollout for Banks
January 27, 2026

Platform Team Model Rollout for Banks. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Bank Delivery Model Gaps: Closing the Distance Between Expectations and Execution
January 26, 2026

Bank Delivery Model Gaps: Closing the Distance. Defines capability gaps, readiness signals, and concrete actions that turn strategy into executable change.

Technology Delivery Bottlenecks in Banking: Turning Legacy Constraints Into Executable Priorities
January 26, 2026

Technology Delivery Bottlenecks in Banking. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Why Bank Transformations Fail: Execution Risks Leaders Actually See
January 19, 2026

Why Bank Transformations Fail: Execution. Provides practical guidance to prioritize investments, manage execution risk, and improve transformation outcomes.

Scaling Agile in Banking: Lessons Learned to Validate Delivery Realism
January 16, 2026

Scaling Agile in Banking: Lessons Learned. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Evidence-Based Value Prioritization Under Banking Constraints
January 13, 2026

Evidence-Based Value Prioritization. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Bank Transformation Capacity Constraints That Cause Portfolios to Stall
January 9, 2026

Bank Transformation Capacity Constraints. Provides practical guidance to prioritize investments, manage execution risk, and improve transformation outcomes.

How Many Product Teams Does a Bank Need: Validating Ambition Against Delivery Capacity
January 2, 2026

How Many Product Teams Does a Bank Need. Provides practical guidance to prioritize investments, manage execution risk, and improve transformation outcomes.