About this episode
A rapidly shifting business landscape is forcing project teams to be more flexible. Global project leaders share how they deliver fast-paced results—without sacrificing quality. The PMO team from McDonald’s shares how it successfully delivering a massive digital transformation project that touched 20,000 global restaurants in just nine months. Dev Ramcharan, a program director at TD Bank in Toronto, Canada, explains how the full spectrum of project management approaches can help project teams deliver expected outcomes on an expedited schedule. Everaldo de Souza Alves Jr., PMO manager for Latin America at Equifax, discusses how a strong understanding of business strategy can help teams run innovative projects quickly and effectively We hope you’ve enjoyed our podcast series, ProjectifiedTM with PMI . To join the conversation online, we ask you to use #Projectified and @PMInstitute. We also encourage you to subscribe and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts or Google Play Music by clicking on the links below. Thank you very much, and stay tuned as we release more episodes of ProjectifiedTM with PMI . For an easy way to stay up-to-date on Projectified with PMI, subscribe to our podcast at: Apple Podcast , Google Play Music , SoundCloud , Stitcher , or PMI . org / podcast . Key Themes: [00:39] Understanding the need for speed [03:24] McDonald’s Digital Transformation [07:45] How to define a quality outcome [08:56] Using the right approach for the job [12:42] Innovation as a survival mechanism [15:16] Short-term vs long-term project impact [17:26] Rapid response in a regulatory environment [20:29] Keeping an eye on strategy