Erste Bank – George implementation project
PROJECT
DATA
Hungary
2019.01 – 2021.03
Erste Bank
SERVICES
PROVIDED
METHODOLOGIES
USED
Agile methodology for delivery. Responsibilities at POs, mainly on IT part.
Microservice architecture for delivering banking solution.
CI/CD for handling distributed codebase and deliverable components.
Banking Transformation project scope and targets
The main scope was the introduction of Erste Bank’s George App, an innovative group solution replacing its previous mobile-banking application.
Erste Bank has begun to develop George as its digital banking platform in Austria in 2012 and continued its expansion to the Group countries. As of today, the e-banking and mobile banking platform serves more than 6 million customers with personalized digital access to their financials.
George offers more customer friendly banking solutions, like personalizable user interfaces, State-of-the-art personal financial module and Search-as-you-type transaction filtering.


Our main contribution to Erste Bank’s George Implementation Project
Providing activities on various tracks, including architecture planning of the mobile banking solution, team leading.
Our banking transformation experts, who was taking part in the project as business- and technical analysts, helped in the following tracks:
- Mobile token integration
- Mobile rollout strategy
- Transaction migration
- Product owners’ roles
- Performance testing
- Code review
Banking Transformation project organization and roles
Bank provided allocated internal and 3rd party business and IT resources.
The total number of the banking transformation project team was over 100.
The core project team was organized in streams.
Bank management closely monitored the progress with weekly meetings.

Our main involvement areas in the George implementation project
- Product owner roles
- Enterprise architecture tasks
- Stream leading
- Test co-ordination
- Scope management
- Business consultancy
- Banking data migration support
MINDSPIRE profiles involved in the project
- Stream leader
- Enterprise architect
- Business consultants
- System analsysts
- IT integration expert
