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Our client is a leading retail business with over 2,000 retail shops across the UK operating two major businesses under the same brand. To enable one of the businesses to be sold, the IT services and infrastructure needed to be separated. To complicate the project a previous cost-savings initiative had merged shared-service functions such as HR, Operations and IT Beyond were engaged to help design and deliver a IT system divestment for 18,000 users.
The project had been in-flight for some time but the team needed assistance as the infrastructure project plan was difficult to track and there was nervousness from the technical staff whether the amount of technical change would be achievable given the amount of remaining time left on the project. The pressure of trying to deliver within the stated timescales was leading to uncertainty and talented staff were finding employment elsewhere.
Working with a strong programme manager, we collaborated with the technical staff to detail the effort required, resulting in a single project becoming a programme of over twenty separate but interrelated work streams. With an approved plan in place, crucially with engineer buy-in, we set off to deliver a new separate IT environment for the 4,000 users. The main challenges were providing shared-services to both "new" businesses, enabling co-exis-tence during the transition and keeping the lights on whilst making major change.
The first benefit of this project was to create a vision for the project that the engineers could visualise and agree to. This extended the deadline slightly but motivated the team to deliver a programme of work they previously thought impossible.