Global Reinsurance

Company Background

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Our client is a global reinsurance company focused on building a next-generation reinsurance platform to support the evolving needs of its business and customers. As part of a long-term modernization effort, the company was transitioning from a legacy monolithic system to a distributed architecture built on .NET Core, Node.js, Angular, and React—all hosted in an Azure cloud environment.

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The Challenge

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Years into their rebuild, the client still hadn’t delivered a first release of their new reinsurance platform. The globally distributed nature of the development team, paired with multiple regional stakeholders, led to misaligned priorities, communication breakdowns, and a lack of clarity around product features and direction.

Despite significant investment, the program was off track. The organization needed an outside perspective to diagnose roadblocks, improve communication, and refocus the rebuild effort with clear goals and technical alignment—while continuing to maintain their legacy monolith during the transition.

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The Solution

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Stride engaged with the client mid-flight, conducting a two-week assessment to identify areas of improvement across Agile delivery, development practices, and organizational alignment.

Led by two Principal Consultants and a Senior Product Manager, the Stride team observed Agile ceremonies, conducted one-on-one interviews, reviewed key artifacts and metrics, and facilitated an executive alignment meeting. Their focus was on surfacing bottlenecks and unblocking forward momentum across both technical and team dynamics.

Key areas of support included:

• Improving cross-team communication and collaboration
  
  
• Enhancing CI/CD pipelines and test coverage
  
  
• Supporting observability and feedback loops
  
  
• Providing architectural guidance on legacy upgrade vs. sunset decisions
  
  
• Facilitating Agile training and retrospection practices to improve team effectiveness
  
  

By working closely with both technical and business stakeholders, Stride helped reconnect strategic vision with delivery execution.

The Business Outcomes

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As a result of Stride’s assessment and guidance:

• The client significantly improved the speed and quality of product decision-making, enabling faster delivery cycles and more confident prioritization.
  
  
• The rebuild moved forward with a more streamlined and differentiated architecture, reducing complexity and lowering ongoing operational costs.
  
  
• Development teams were restructured to reduce inefficiencies and handoffs, improving collaboration and throughput.
  
  
• Deployment frequency increased as the team adopted stronger engineering and Agile practices.
  
  

With renewed clarity, simplified systems, and better-aligned teams, the client regained control of its platform modernization—and positioned itself to deliver long-term business value more effectively.

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Due to the sensitive nature of this project, all identifying company information has been redacted.

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