Digital project planner
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On the other hand, the now redundant commute to work is a great benefit. “Taking a breather is eliminated because we often jump from one meeting to the next. On the other hand, the denser scheduling of appointments could become a burden. “That used to slow us down a lot in the past.” The organizers of the meetings also no longer have to search for a suitable room. We can manage more in the same time,” says Metzger. “Many meetings that used to take an hour are now finished after half an hour. The longer the home office lasted, the clearer the advantages became. It was more difficult to integrate new colleagues into the team though. No time-consuming introductions required. One major advantage was that most of the participants knew each other well. “We transferred all meetings 1:1 to Skype,” reports Metzger. Spontaneous discussions became more difficult from the home office – but the daily structure was largely retained. The switch was big, because in the project house everything was designed for personal encounters. “From one day to the next, all communication had to take place online,” says Metzger. Shortly before the finish line, COVID-19 arrived – and consequently the home office. Every day, dozens of meetings with developers, purchasers or production planners. In the specially constructed project house, the team held the strings together to get the car on the road as planned. For Volkswagen, the first model of a new era.
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For Melanie Metzger’s department, the corona pandemic began at the worst possible moment: the model series manager and her team had been working for more than three years towards the launch of the all-electric ID.3.