A Journey into Open Development with Lloyds Banking Group - ERP Spain.com - España y América Latina

Lloyds Banking Group is a financial services group with millions of customers and a presence in nearly every UK community, both online and on the local high street. With more than one million businesses serviced through their brands, the hopes for creating the bank of the future is firmly locked in the sights of this digitally transforming organization. In order to hit their ambitious goal, Lloyds Banking Group is changing from a traditionally introverted bank, hardened to risk through years of manual process, into an open and collaborative organization where innovation and experimentation are driven by engineering and automation. During this talk you’ll learn how Lloyds Banking Group journeyed into Inner Source with the formation of engineering guilds and how this lead to the adoption of GitHub Enterprise from proof of concept to widespread use. We’ll also explore how engineering guilds formed the GitHub Enterprise Working Group to share successes and educate on best practices, while safeguarding the operation of their engineering community. Finally, we’ll tell the story of how Lloyds Banking Group is moving fast toward Open Source, powered by the determination and ambition of Lloyds Engineering and the Lloyds Banking Group Open Source Mission. About the speaker: James McLeod is a passionate Software Engineer with a belief in open collaboration and a drive for growing engineering communities. James’ role as Software Engineering Lead at Lloyds Banking Group focuses on guiding the engineering community, listening to feedback, and removing barriers through leading and advocating for Lloyds engineering guilds and Inner Source collaboration. His energy and passion goes beyond the workplace where James is the founder of ‘React London–Bring Your Own Project’ – a rapidly growing London meetup, with over 1300 active members.