Maciek Simm

“Maciej managed for me the most difficult project in a program that was to separate BENESTRA (GTS Slovakia) company from other ex GTS Central Europe group entities, IT infrastructure-, systems- and resources-wise. That project was to migrate heavily customized implementation of Salesforce.com CRM from one cloud instance to other instance in just one shot. posing extreme risk to continuity of BENESTRA business operations and quality/availability of migrated data. Maciej with his team mastered complexity of this project very well. This project seems to be a unique in the world experience considering the scale and extent of the migration (90GB SFDC CRM database of 120 custom objects and almost 6 mio characters of custom code). Maciej combined his developer’s skills and experience, project manager’s capabilities and knowledge of agile development and lean management. He can perform remarkably well in handling individual tasks and issues with the project team as well as communicate to the steering committee and key stakeholders. His understanding of business requirements and expectations is great and he mix it with ability to translate them to well formulated project objectives, tasks and project quality metrics. Maciej is quick in action whenever consideration and qualified decision is required and he doesn’t hesitate to support developers in his project team by taking piece of analytical or coding job on his shoulders. Maciej is also very effective and efficient with managing project issues and troubles, presenting alternatives and making recommendations whenever it is appropriate. It was interesting to watch how Maciej combined the waterfall project management methods (working out the work breakdown structure , setting milestones and checkpoints and overall planning) with agile methods used to respond to changes in the project plan or in particular objectives. This project was very much about many UKNOWN challenges with no chance to learn from others’ experiences and with Maciej we successfully managed to handle them. The project was delivered on time, on budget. The deliverable quality was higher than expected when it comes to disturbance to business operations upon migration which was extremely low considering the scale of the project (13 work streams). I wish to have an opportunity to work with Maciej again and rely on his all-rounder’s capabilities. I recommend Maciej for any project management / coordination job as well as for team leadership and business relationship management.”