Course overview
Regulatory bodies must deliver policy, supervisory, licensing, enforcement and technology change under public scrutiny, statutory deadlines and shifting priorities. Conventional project controls can struggle when evidence emerges late, consultation changes requirements, or urgent market events demand rapid reprioritisation. Agile project management offers useful ways to manage uncertainty, but regulators must apply it without weakening due process, auditability, independence, security or legal accountability.
This course equips participants to select and apply Agile approaches for regulatory work. Participants use Scrum, Kanban, AgilePM and hybrid governance techniques to define outcomes, organise backlogs, plan increments, manage dependencies and report progress to senior decision-makers. They learn to translate legislation, policy intent, supervisory commitments and stakeholder needs into testable requirements; establish proportionate controls; and maintain decision records suitable for assurance and audit.
Teaching combines short instructor briefings with regulator-focused cases, group planning work, simulations and structured peer review. Cases include supervisory technology implementation, licensing-process redesign, policy consultation delivery and response programmes following market disruption. Participants progressively build a regulatory Agile delivery pack, including a delivery charter, prioritised backlog, release plan, governance model, risk controls and performance measures. The final capstone requires them to present and defend the completed pack to a simulated regulatory steering group.
The course suits professionals who manage, sponsor, assure or govern change within regulators, central banks, public authorities and regulated financial institutions. It is particularly useful where teams need faster delivery while retaining clear accountability, documented decisions and credible oversight.
