The Need for Speed—Delivering Rapid Response Projects

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

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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