SUTHERLAND SHIRE COUNCIL
170 the IT teams stuck to working in traditional silos . “ Coming into this role , I expected it would be 50 % about people and 50 % about technology . I quickly realised that being a technology leader is more about the people , than it is about the technology .”
Challenges with interdepartmental communication meant the IT team and their stakeholders were not necessarily getting full value and actions , there were multiple handover points , manual processes and large reliance on key people . As an accredited Agile professional , with an aptitude for Human Centered Design , seasoned in Scrum
“ One of the first things I did was to stock-take – reviewing the IT strategy , governance , architecture , the infrastructure , the IT operations and the enhancements and projects ”
— Simona Dimovski , Chief Information Officer , Sutherland Shire Council ( SSC ) and SaFE experience , Dimovski has worked with Sydney-based PM-Partners to start training Council employees in Agile methodology . “ We had already started breaking down the silos and shifting mindsets . By the time COVID-19 arrived PM-Partners had started training our IT resilience group . Everything we are working on , we are running in sprints and adopting Scrum methodology . The whole purpose of this is to create transparency and better decision making
AUGUST 2020