After a period of rest for this blog, I’ve decided to revive it as a sort of travel journal, newsletter, and memory album for reflections over the coming months of a large IT project involving significant transformation at two Scandinavian clothing brands.
IT projects are business projects, and vice versa. This has never been truer, and everyone in each Company will be feeling it through this IT Independence Program – technically two projects, separating each brand out of it’s previous “home” of shared applications.
It’s not everybody in this world who gets an opportunity to follow a journey like this, and from inside the whirlwind it can be difficult to take a step back and reflect on the lessons as we learn them. For those of you on this journey with me, please don’t hesitate to share your thoughts, funny anecdotes, suggestions for future topics or just let me know how you’re doing.
It’s the intention of this blog, for now, to function as a kind of informal project journal and newsletter, to keep perspective on the bigger picture and help each other to keep learning and have some fun along the way.
I wrote the above in August 2022, and concluded with these words of wisdom: try to get up and WALK! We spent so much of the spring glued to Teams screens for hours on end. For the first couple of weeks back at work after summer, I’ve gotten in the habit of taking every possible one-on-one meeting on my feet. Now to see if we can keep the habit when the weather turns less glorious…
Cut on the Bias 