Mykhailo Hryhorash: What can be good in a "bad" project? (UA)
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3. - Work in IT since 2004
- 4th company in 20 years
- Delivery Director at Levi9 Lviv
- Customer Focus specialist
- Fan of power fitness, bike,
snowboard
ABOUT ME
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8. Proactive approach is to
prevents problems rather than
firefight them
But if shit happens - the
manager is the one to solve it
DISCLAIMER
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10. • 7 projects
• 3 devs + involved resources
in a matrix organization (QA,
admins)
• Support of old shit
HAHA, ANNOUNCER
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11. • A year without a rollback
• Met SLAs
• Finished Announcer migration
• Formed independent Fax team
ACHIEVEMENTS
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12. • Shifted to a high-profile development project
• Then offered a position in Lviv
IMPACT ON MY CAREER
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13. • Welcome to hell
• 9 products, 8 devs
• 24/7 on-call duty
• Tough person on customer’s
side
SLA
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14. • Customer and team dissatisfaction
• High attrition
• Escalations
• Financially not profitable
• Pain in the ass for the upper management
ISSUES
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15. • Stabilized the team after a wave of leavers
• Signed a new contract, commercially profitable
• Met SLA
• Continued successfully for 3 more years
ACHIEVEMENTS
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16. • Promotion to a DD position
IMPACT ON MY CAREER
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17. • A troublemaker project
• 3 dev teams
• The most problematic one
without leadership
PROJECT X
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18. • Top management escalations
• High attrition
• Regular overtime
• Bad reputation in the company
ISSUES
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19. • Improved the problematic team performance in 2
months
• Turned attrition into planned rotations
• Great feedback and the customer's satisfaction
ACHIEVEMENTS
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20. • Positive exposure to the top management of Levi9
• Great relationships with the customer
IMPACT ON MY CAREER
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