Resource Management (Part 1)

At Barrel, the process of staffing new projects and ensuring our team has an appropriate workload has been a shared responsibility by our Project Management team, Client Services team and discipline leads. While we have made decisions and moved things along over the years, we've struggled with being able to kick off projects quickly enough, having too much workload on team members at times, and also over-hiring when things felt intense.

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Highlights: Financial Systems and Talent Acquistion

Modernizing Our Financial Systems People are surprised to hear that we ran our company finances from Excel for the first 15 years of our business. Building a Talent Acquisition DisciplineAt Barrel, talent acquisition and recruitment has been a shared responsibility among our team leads, who serve as our hiring managers.

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