Bootman & Brothers
Working in highly complex IT development projects with lots of very different teams
Task
Drafting conclusions from a study, setting up objectives and milestones and defining working guidelines for two teams of IT developers
Working in highly complex IT development projects with lots of very different teams
Drafting conclusions from a study, setting up objectives and milestones and defining working guidelines for two teams of IT developers
Challenge
Working in multicultural environments, both literally -people from different nationalities- as well as figuratively -professionals with different corporate cultures-, in two trans-European projects.
From an old contact from my time in London working for AVIVA Group I collaborated with this specialized technology consultancy firm in two projects.
The first one with a client from the banking sector in Paris for which I managed a team of functional analysts. We gathered operational information and procedures for the subsequent development of a strategic plan for a new IT system.
In the second project, I assisted as part of a European team of consultants, for a project with Toyota Europe in Brussels to merge different IT systems from several affiliates.
In both cases, my collaboration was from a high-level strategic point-of-view rather than nitty-gritty stuff.