... facing a fixed date for the migration of the new IT-infrastructure within the first department of the hospital. Our mandate included the overall responsibility and leadership of the strategic task force of the project. We also were given just a few months for the rollout of the new IT-infrastructure within the first department of the customer.
At the determining day at 7:00 am, the key person of our customer expressed concerns about the new environment (network, servers, clients, accesses to applications, etc.) really fulfilling all the necessary requirements and that he wanted more time for tests. From our customer’s perspective, this however was not an option: the customer insisted on the agreed date of the migration. Otherwise, he would quit the contract.
At first, we feared that the project had failed. But at the
same time, however, our guiding principle driven by passion
came to our minds. Ultimately, we could encourage and motivate
our colleagues with our passion and show them that giving up
was the worst possible option. Using the quote by Cicero “the
bigger the challenge one overcame, the bigger the victory”, we
underlined that everyone involved in the project could only
win.
Finally, we placed technical experts as stand-by men who could
intervene during the rollout at every floor of the building.
Of course, we had to deal with several small issues during the
rollout, but we could manage them quickly thanks to the taken
measures, as well because of the positive energy and will to
succeed of everyone involved in the project.
This experience guides us in any new project and clearly
showed us, that every project driven by passion and combined
with motivated employees can be lead to success, no matter how
big occurring problems seem.
