Sebastian Jaworski - ARIMR / BGK - Building In-House Team Among Talent Shortage

Published: April 2, 2020, 10 a.m.

b"When the IT talent shortage in Poland was estimated at roughly 100 thousand people, Sebastian Jaworski, then IT director and CIO at ARIMR (The Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture) decided to fire outsourcing partners and build an internal software development factory and hired 40 people within a year. \\n\\nHe also led an Agile transformation in this quite calcified 25-year old government organisation. The online platform that his team built has served 2 million farmers in its first year.\\n\\nIn this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Sebastian talks with Hendrik Deckers about:\\n\\n\\u25b4 always seeking a challenge, \\n\\u25b4 agile transformation in a government agency\\n\\u25b4 impressing the business stakeholders who used to resent exorbitant bills for software development\\n\\u25b4 balancing trust and control in leading a high-performance team\\n\\n\\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\\n\\n00:45 - Introduction: Sebastian Jaworski, CIO of ARIMR (The Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture)\\n01:17 - Transformation: Reducing software development cost by \\u20ac50M through building internal software factory of 40+ developers\\n05:22 - Hiring and developing the IT team\\n07:50 - IT market in Poland, technologies and potential of blockchain\\n13:30 - How is IT organised at ARIMR?\\n14:48 - ROI of the transformation\\n16:30 - The role of CIO and how it's changed in the last 5 years\\n18:04 - Sebastian's management style - balancing trust and structure, cultivating team leaders\\n20:19 - Sebastian's leadership style\\n22:24 - Sebastian's MBTI profile - ENFJ\\n\\n\\nEuropean Digital Leader Of The Year Finalist\\n\\nSebastian Jaworski is a Public sector finalist in the European Digital Leader Of The Year Awards. Find out the B2B and B2C winners and learn more about the other 16 finalists in the Public and Financial sectors - the winners among the latter will be announced at CIONEXT on 26th June 2020. \\n\\nhttps://ecoty.eu/"