Simply Business beat off strong competition from shortlisted companies BSkyB and Laterooms to win the award.

Simply Business, the UK’s largest business insurance broker, was named ‘Most Agile Aware Organisation’ at the 2011 Agile Awards this week. The company was recognised for engaging and embracing Agile techniques across the entire workforce, with positive results for the business as a whole.

Simply Business beat off strong competition from shortlisted companies BSkyB and Laterooms to win the award.

Lukas Oberhuber, CTO, Simply Business, commented:

“This award has put an exclamation point on something that we've been working on for over a year. Our speed of delivery is now four times what it was a year ago; everyone who works on technology projects is happier and our code base is cleaner and better. The best part is that we won because the whole organisation is behind Agile. For us, Agile isn't something the tech team does and everyone else ignores. It's woven directly into how we deliver projects. We work collaboratively, as one business.”

Julie Voice, Event Organiser, Agile Awards, said:

“Simply Business stood out as an organisation that really understands the improved efficiency and productivity that Agile can bring and one that has harnessed this to drive business growth. In a truly agile manner, we hope that Simply Business continues to learn from and build on its success in the future.”

About Simply Business

Simply Business is the UK’s largest business insurance broker.
Launched in 2005, Simply Business provides an online brokerage service delivering policies tailored to individual business requirements. It has a team of UK based insurance specialists and employs over 140 people across offices in London and Northampton.
Simply Business insures over 170,000 UK SMEs and owing to its internal underwriting capability can cover over 1,000 trade types. It has been a Sunday Times Tech Track 100company for the past three years and was recently named in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA. Revenues have grown 44% a year from £4.2 million in 2006, to £12.5 million in 2009.