Lessons Learned from mobilizing 450 people during COVID

These days many organizations follow the pattern of product teams. When we engage with clients, we mirror that pattern and work in product-/ feature-teams ourselves, taking over the responsibility for the success of a client’s digital product.
During COVID, we created for our customer a product-team organization. We mobilized from scratch 450 people within six months in six different locations around the globe. We hope that was a once in a lifetime experience - we would do it again but prefer to do it without a global pandemic.
Still - there are learnings around the impact of COVID on people involved in this. We will share our experience with remote teams working together for the first time in #WFH during COVID. We will share how SAF helped (or not). And we will share personal stories about our emotional journeys and cultural differences.

Speaker:
Luisa has got a Political Science degree with a specialization in international studies and a master’s degree in digital marketing. Passionate about learning and achieving new skills, she is now studying piano, even though her first solo concert is not on sight…yet… Luisa started her career as account manager in some of the leading Italian creative agencies and media groups, then shifted to delivery, experiencing different roles such as project manager, PO and delivery lead. She first encountered Agile methodology 5 years ago and fell instantly in love: still passionate about the topic and its evolution.

Dino is a husband and father of two daughters. He lives in Cologne and loves (rock) music, handball and cars. Dino started his professional career in 2004 after studying computer science at RWTH Aachen. He joined Accenture and gathered many different experiences as a Consultant in Custom Solutions, Team-, Project-, and Program-Management, IT Infrastructure, Outsourcing and ITIL. He joined ThoughtWorks in 2014 to focus on agile software delivery and support growth of the German business. Since May 2019 Dino is back at Accenture Interactive to realize really cool user-experiences for his clients and create a diverse and inclusive work environment with his colleagues.

Agenda:
• Intro & Welcome 5-10 min.
• Talk 45 min.
• Discussion 15-20 min.