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Featured, Features - Friday, March 5, 2010 14:59 - 9 Comments
How Jeff Smith keeps Suncorp’s IT nimble
When Suncorp’s new chief executive Patrick Snowball stepped on board in late 2009, the tier two banking and insurance firm’s chief information officer Jeff Smith (pictured) wasted no time showing his new boss the ropes.
In Snowball’s first week, Smith says, he took the CEO to see one of his software developer teams building a new claims system. Smith asked one of his developers to change a parameter and run the full associated test scenario through the thousand micro-tests required to see if it passed.
The system didn’t pass the test — because of the changed parameter. But that was the point. Smith wanted to demonstrate to the CEO the Agile software development methodology that he says has spread “like a virus” throughout Suncorp since he first introduced it.











