Giancarlo Borso presented on innovation in project management at GFT Group on October 26, 2018. The presentation discussed (1) combining agile and waterfall methodologies through parametric indicators to measure agile team activities, (2) managing both large and small projects through integrating micro-activities back into overall projects to simplify governance, and (3) developing a collaborative concept focused on people through tools that enable information sharing, objectives, and commitment to feel involved in projects.

1. Giancarlo Borso, october 26, 2018
Innovation in PM

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Agenda
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1. GFT Company Presentation
2. Innovation in PM
 The Collaborative Concept
 Agile Meet Waterfall
 Not only Big Projects
 The Digital Assistant
3. Q&A

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Specialista
a livello mondiale
in tecnologia e innovazione
per il settore financial services
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Dati e cifre 2017
Azioni quotate al
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
5.500persone
GLOBAL DELIVERY WORKFORCE*
€ 419milioni
RICAVI
€ 18milioni
EBT
Numero di dipendenti (FTE secondo IFRS)
* di cui 760 risorse esterne
2.016
3.131
4.050
4.870 4.740
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
26,4%
9,7%
63,9%
ULRICH DIETZ MARIA DIETZ FREE FLOAT
Struttura
azionaria

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30 anni di espansione internazionale
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GFT
Italia
12
Lancio di
08
GFT
USA
05
GFT
Brasile
GFT
Spagna
Digitalisation
Delivery Excellence
Regulatory
GFT Canada,
Costa Rica
e Polonia
97
GFT
Svizzera
GFT
UK
00
Progettoprincipale:GRIT
(Object-orientedenvironment
forgraphicaluserinterfaces)
90
Centrodisvilupponearshore
inSpagna
02
IPO
99
Acquisizionedi
Adesis(Spagna,Messico)
15
Acquisizionedi
HabberTec(Brasile)
1613
Acquisizionedi
Sempla(Italia)
Acquisizionedi
Asymo(Svizzera)
11
CMMI®
Certification
04LargeIT-outsourcing
DeutscheBank
(Germania,Spagna)
01 14
Acquisizionedi
RuleFinancial(UK)
Acquisizionedi
Mecemsa(Spagna)
1787
Ulrich Dietz fonda, in Germania, GFT, società di tecnologia

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5.500 esperti in 11 paesi
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Canada (10)
Toronto
USA (70)
Boston
New York
Costa Rica (115)
Messico (165)
Heredia
Mexico City
Alphaville
Curitiba
Sorocaba
Brasile (695)
UK (265)
Londra
Spagna (2.370)
Alicante
Barcellona
Lleida
Madrid
Valencia
Zaragoza
Polonia (610)
Lodz
Poznan
Varsavia
Germania (425)
Bonn
Eschborn/Francoforte
St. Georgen
Stoccarda
Italia (715)
Firenze
Genova
Milano
Montecatini Terme
Padova
Piacenza
Siena
Torino
Svizzera (60)
Basilea
Zurigo

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In tutto il mondo
specialista nei financial services
in tecnologia
e innovazione
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Digital evolution: twin tracks
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Platform engineering
 Agile transformation
 Core platform optimisation
and management
 Re-platforming, development
 Vendor solutions
 Micro services
Cloud engineering
 Cloud assessment and preparation
 Migration and optimisation
 DevOps and CloudOps
Data engineering
 Data architecture and re-engineering
 Data governance and quality
 Data lineage and insights
Open banking
 Open APIs
 Bank as a platform (BaaP)
 Modular banking
Disruptive experiences
 Cognitive banking/Machine learning/AI
 Distributed ledger technologies
 Augmented/virtual/mixed reality
 Natural language processing (NLP)
Cloud innovation
 Cloud POCs
 Native/elastic cloud innovation
Regulatory and compliance
services
 Compliance control and visualisation
 Regulatory automation
 TTR in the cloud
Design and automation
 Design Thinking/Digital product design
 Robotic/intelligent process
automation, Bots
 User and operational analytics
 User experience
Disruption &
acceleration
Operational
excellence
Firm of
the
future
Licence
to
operate
Technology

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Rendiamo
l’innovazione
tangibile
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Innovation
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Scoperta
 Ultime tecnologie e devices
 Consumer trends
 Comportamenti sociali
 Nuovi modelli di business
Incontro
 Pionieri della tecnologia
 Startups
 Partners
 Istituzioni finanziarie
Esperienza
 Innovazione tangibile attraverso
simulazioni di vita reale
 Customer journey senza
soluzione di continuità banca |
casa | mobile | negozi
 Design Thinking
Cooperazione
 Partnership CODE_n

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Tecnologia applicata:
Proof of concepts
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Blockchain
Distributed ledger
Blockchain abilita RBS
a realizzare un Instance
Credit Transfer scalabile su
Google Cloud Platform che
supporta i requisiti SEPA
Cloud
L’esecuzione Consolidated
Audit Trail (CAT) sul Cloud
con Amazon Web Services
è altamente agile e facilita
la compliance normativa
Artificial
intelligence
Machine learning classi-
fication con modelli
swappable tensor flow
basati su Google Cloud
Platform permette di salvare
un vasto quantitativo di dati
real time
Data
analytics
La migrazione di una
soluzione esistente
compute intensive on-
premise a native cloud,
funziona attualmente 24x
più veloce ed è 4 volte
meno costosa
Innovation

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Cosa ci differenzia
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Commitment to delivery
 Metodologie efficaci assicurano delivery di successo in progetti di alto profilo
 Team efficienti con know-how creativo, di processo e tecnologico
 Delivery onsite scalabile a livello globale e dalle sedi nearshore
Big enough to deliver – small enough to care
 Processo decisionale snello grazie alla struttura organizzativa orientata al cliente
 Approccio concreto basato su creatività, competenza e determinazione nel delivery
Passione per l’innovazione
 Gli Innovation Lab facilitano il trend scouting e la prototipizzazione per i servizi finanziari
 Il network per l’innovazione CODE_n identifica tecnologie trasversali “disruptive”
Focus sulla sostenibiltà rispetto ai profitti a breve termine
 Un’ampia percentuale azionaria di GFT è posseduta dalla famiglia fondatrice
 I Core Values sono parte integrante della nostra vita quotidiana:
Caring | Committed | Courageous | Collaborative | Creative

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Innovation in PM
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Innovation In Project Management Software
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Agile meet Waterfall
Not only Big Projects
The Digital Assistant
The Collaborative Concept
IT Efficency Project & Portfolio
Management

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The Collaborative Concept - Assumption
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Resources
are not just
resources
Resources are the
driving force
behind the project
the more people feel
involved, the more
powerful the engine
will be
People want
to count on,
participate,
understand
To feel part of a
team working
towards a common
goal
and do their best for
the success of the
project
IT Efficency Project & Portfolio
Management

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The Collaborative Concept - Innovation
The new generation of Project Management Software will focus on people.
…and change the perspective
…from PM Centric …to Collaborative
IT Efficency Project & Portfolio
Management

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giving people the tools they need to share information, objectives and feel fully committed
to the project
The Collaborative Concept – How
Dashboard
Discussion
Areas
Documents
Achievement
Information
Mobile interfaces
IT Efficency Project & Portfolio
Management

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Agile meet Waterfall
19/10/2018
Ensuring the governance of Agile projects
In projects based on the Agile methodology, the scope is a variable element, which is defined as
the project progresses.
However, management still needs to have reliable and homogeneous indicators of project
performance.
Concept: to provide management with useful information on the progress of projects based on
Agile methodology, being able to govern through a single tool, projects in which both
methodologies converge.
Innovation: through the definition of parametric indicators, we have developed a logic for
measuring the activities of the teams operating in Agile.The collected data are conveyed,
through a specific connector, inside Cardinis. The information related to the project,
summarized in the classic Cardinis Dashboard, allows the Management to obtain a clear and
immediate view of the progress of the project.
IT Efficency Project & Portfolio
Management

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Not only Big Projects
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There are not only major projects.
Every organization has less articulated projects, shorter but no less strategic or critical.
Managing and controlling a range of small and medium projects can be as complex as managing a
single large project
place in the
same period
impact the same
budget
use the
same resources
IT Efficency Project & Portfolio
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Not only Big Projects - Concept
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Manage micro-activities as part of a project: bring micro-activities back into a
Classic Project, simplifying its management, through automatisms that reduce
operations.
The objective is to ensure that the Management has the information necessary for the
government of the projects, without complicating their operation.
Support simple projects: make the definition and management of a project fast, simple
and efficient.
This allows even less structured organizations to manage small projects, or to
progressively approach the logic of Project Management
IT Efficency Project & Portfolio
Management

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Not only Big Projects - Innovation
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We have developed integration logics with the most popular Issue Traking applications,
to govern micro-activities (for example, software maintenance, small evolutionary and bug
fixing on Digital solutions) and lead them back to an overall development or maintenance
project.
In this way, while decreasing the level of complexity, it is possible to provide the
Management with the information necessary for the government of the projects.
Allow the user to create, save and edit project templates from which to start defining a
subsequent project.
Development of wizard functionalities that allow to follow the user step by step in the
creation and definition of a new project, in a simple and intuitive way, so as to speed up
the definition process.
IT Efficency Project & Portfolio
Management

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Digital Assistant for Project Manager
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Project management involves the collection of large amounts of data, related to activities,
time, resources.
This volume of data is undoubtedly valuable but not easily interpreted and reusable by the
Project Manager. Data analysis requires resources and skills that are not always immediately
available to the Project Manager.
It is therefore necessary to identify a technique for analysing project data, in order to obtain
all the information that can be reused for the management of subsequent projects.
Given the volume of data, it was considered that this analysis should be managed not by the
human Project Manager, but by the specially trained machine.
IT Efficency Project & Portfolio
Management

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Digital Assistant for Project Manager
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IA applied to Project Management
Concept: provide a Digital Assistant for the PM, able to analyze large volumes of
historical data and and support the PM in the decision-making process.
The PM will then be able to make an informed decision, based on information that he
would not be able to retrieve easily independently and with a greater degree of accuracy.
Innovation: we have developed machine learning techniques applied to estimation
processes, analysing historical data present in the system.
In addition to the data analysis algorithm, we have developed techniques that allow the
machine to read the descriptions of the activities through the nodes of the WBS
The application is able to make the necessary correlations, in order to recover the
information useful to be processed and provide the hypothesis of estimation.
0,448% Human
0,500% Machine
The accuracy of the forecasts obtained from the predictive model (measured by
the coefficient of determination R2) measures 0.5 against a 0.448 obtained from
the forecasts proposed by the human project manager.
IT Efficency Project & Portfolio
Management

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Il futuro
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Continua innovazione
del prodotto secondo una
road map definita
Sviluppo costante di
nuove integrazioni
con i più diversi
sistemi
Sviluppo di nuove
funzionalità,
integrando
l’experience di GFT
nelle nuove tecnologie
Attenti alle indicazioni
derivanti dai clienti, dal
mercato e dai
professionisti del PM
Grazie per l‘attenzione

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Riferimenti
GFT Italia Srl
Giancarlo Borso
Sales Manager PPM
Via San Crispino, 46
35129 – Padova (Italy)
T +39 335 5848864
giancarlo.borso@gft.com