Work & Life in a Bi-Modal World

This is the 10th podcast in the series where we interview interesting Information Technology type people. This week we are focusing on Lynette van Reenen. She is the Head of the Agile Portfolio Office at Standard Bank. She has an interesting role as she is in the process of transitioning a traditional Project Office to a construct that will support an Agile Organisation. Standard Bank does not run projects any more which means the whole notion of a Project Office needs to be re-shaped.

Interestingly, she also moved to Portugal to open a restaurant. Have a listen to see how this came about and what she thought of the experience.

This podcast is part of our initiative to focus on Women in Tech.

Women in Tech

Women in Tech is a major theme here at Langerman Panta Rhei. Women are vastly under-represented and access to their skills is a loss for our industry.

See Prof. Judy Backhouse’s view on this. Where are the women in Tech?

“In Our Time” with Brenda Niehaus

“Mom & D.A.D.” with Tanya Momberg

“Advice to Young Women in IT” with Rika Gertenbach

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Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

01:30 – How did you end up in IT?

03:35 – Moving to a Lean/Agile Construct / Operating in a bi-modal world

06:34 – Reporting & Metrics

08:23 – How did you grow personally to operate in a new way and help shift the team?

10:24 – What were the pivotal moments or learnings?

14:18 – Balance and harmony in work-life / Working as a mother in an IT world

18:38 – The experience of operating a restaurant in Portugal

20:33 – Advice to a 21-year-old self

21:41 – Your spiritual animal?

22:48 – Girls’ Weekend!!

Show Links

The SAFe Framework

Team of Teams

NCIS

Dora the Explorer

The list of our other podcasts is available here.