22 - Project Management and Communication -- What You Must Do From Start to Finish - David Markwell

On this week's episode of the Inspire Podcast, Bart Egnal interviews David Markwell who is the Senior Vice President Information Technology at Loblaw Companies Limited. They talk about the many aspects involved in delivering a project, and why communication plays such an important role to the success. Here are some moments from their conversation: Why IT projects succeed? (4:20) Examples of communication failures (6:20) Details and jargon that get in the way of client communication. (7:43) The stakeholders perspective. (10:51) Lack of ownership, an IT problem. (11:57) How to link building communication into project leadership? (16:47) How to handle and communicate through set-backs? (20:35) Bringing teams together. (25:03) When to pull the plug on a project. (28:30) Having good communication Listen Now to hear more! -- Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Soundcloud and Google Podcasts.