Laugh, Learn, Lead - The Project Ecosystem

Last episode I caught up with Adrian Karzon who is the Chief Technology Officer at Kidsoft a who is a passionate about making the connection between business strategy, digital innovation and technology platforms to deliver success for his organisation.If you haven’t yet heard Episode 05 Deliver customer value you may want to listen to our chat about customer first approach, how to set up your team to respond to the unknown and the importance of strategy.We used a few acronyms that you may not be familiar with:SaaS (software as a service), MVP (minimal viable product), BI (business intelligence), API (interface, a method of communicating data components between applications)Today I want to unpack how important it is to have a post implementation release plan because not everything will get done before go live.
JC Three Tips

• Know the effort v value criteria for all features
• Understand your customers pain points to make good decisions
• Have operational budget for post go live activities

Quote from my conversation with Adrian ‘step back, take a moment have a breath and look at the bigger picture’.

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In this episode, JC catches up with Adrian Karzon who is a passionate Digital & Technology leader thriving in business facing roles, making the connection between business strategy, digital innovation and technology platforms to deliver success for the organisation.
We talk about:

• His career from accounting to chief technology officer at Kidsoft
• Why there is a need for balancing features and technical debt
• The importance of having a 'customer-first' approach.

With experience across large corporates, leading Australian brands as well as green field start-ups, Adrian brings a wealth of experience in the digital and technology space including designing, implementing, developing & improving processes & platforms.
He is so much more than just a traditional Information Technology Manager, Adrian is a highly strategic and forward-thinking leader whose passion and drive to succeed has seen him achieve great accomplishments in his career.

Adrian enjoys working with all levels of the team, from senior management, to front line team members, he is a natural people person and communicates well. Team growth and development, alongside a positive and inclusive culture are very important to Adrian and he strives to foster his passion and leadership amongst his team.

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Last episode I caught up with Dana Ashe who is passionate about the transformation potential of technology and its ability to positively impact peoples’ lives.If you haven’t yet heard Episode 03 Love of new things you may want to listen to our chat about project management roles, complexity of transformations and has anything really changed.I’ve been fortunate to work for and with Dana on three occasions in IT logistics and Project Delivery. She was my mentor during our time in Qld Government and I respect as well as learn from her insights.
Has project management changed in the past 20 years?
What we do as project managers hasn’t changed- plan the change, monitor budgets, organise resources, track schedules, report progress…
How we go about project management has changed- Adoption of different methodologies- Engagement change model has moved from IT to the business- Resource management is a blend of virtual teams- Enterprise view of digital transformation over a long period of time with smaller steps delivering value along the way
Three Tips- Revisit your project’s purpose, the WHY, has the business case been updated?- Review the change impact assessment, is it relevant?- If you have any alarm bells going off trust your yourself and ask for a governance meeting to get everyone on the same page
Quote from my conversation with Dana ‘we need finance and business case agility to match our technology agility’.

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n today's episode, I am pleased to have with me Dana Ashe who is passionate about the transformation potential of technology and its ability to positively impact peoples’ lives.Dana has been involved in the IT industry for 25+ years and been accountable for ICT business with an annual $60M budget, over 400 staff, and the delivery of major IT Projects/Programs.
She came up through the ranks of the Public Sector in both State and Local government, taking on diverse IT roles including Business Improvement Leader, reaching the level of Executive Director of the ICT branch for a major State Department.
Dana joined the private sector 8 years ago to manage ICT programs and projects with full accountability for revenue and profit margins, commercial negotiations, vendor management, and staff in a true matrix management setting. She has managed teams spread across Australia, Vietnam and India.
Dana is a highly motivated, articulate, and successful IT management professional who has mentored many upcoming IT staff across several years.
We talk about:

• her career as not a destination but a journey;
• what has changed in how we deliver projects; and
• why organisation's struggle with digital transformations.

Links:Dana Ashe on LinkedIn

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In today’s episode, your host Jeanette Cremor (JC) takes us through The Project Ecosystem ® a learning and growth framework to support others in creating their own project success stories.
It was designed from Jeanette’s 20+ years hands on project management experience of what works and what doesn’t.
The key ingredients can be applied to all projects no matter the size, complexity or purpose:

• The lifecycle - strategies, projects, operations
• The drivers - change, capabilities, information
• The attitude - decisions, collaboration, user experience
• The solution - process, people, technology
• Leadership – self, practice, solution

The Project Ecosystem ® forms the basis of all JC’s consulting engagements, training programs/workshops and group mentoring sessions.
If you would like to know more about her work and how she may be able to help you, connect with her on LinkedIn or send an email to [email protected]
Links:JC WebsiteJC LinkedInJC InstagramJC Facebook

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In today’s episode, you meet your host Jeanette Cremor (or to most just JC) who has a reputation of being a strategic thinker, fun maker and someone who gets the job done.She is the creator of The Project Ecosystem ® a learning framework to support others in creating their own project success stories.
With over 20 years’ experience in government, education, utilities and sport sectors delivering business change by linking people, process and technology she is an expert on project management – what works and what doesn’t.
Jeanette offers consulting services to check the pulse of your project and provide a back to health action plan or you can join her program and mentoring sessions to gain hands-on practical lessons to apply to your project.
If you don’t find her at a whiteboard, she will be with family and friends indulging in good food and wine or watching sport.
She shares her story from farm girl to project doctor and her four career snapshot tips:

• Be self-aware
• Look for opportunities
• Accept diversity
• Maintain your network

Links:JC WebsiteJC LinkedInJC InstagramJC Facebook

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