Schlagwörter
Skills
- 13 years of agile team and management coaching (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Lean Start-up)
- 12 years of agile and hybrid project management (Sprint, Stage gate, Waterfall etc.)
- 8 years of (agile) organisational transformation and change (Holoc., Smart Contracts, LeSS, SAFE, Hybrid)
- 6 years of innovation & business modelling (e.g., ideation, MVP, market approach, pivoting, scaling)
- 6 years of team leadership and management (horizontal leadership, integrative decision making)
- Industry expertise: Digital and software consulting, aviation and mobility, energy, e-education, e-commerce, real estate, wholesale electrical supply industry
Projekthistorie
Part of a company-wide cloud migration program including 6 development teams developing a cloud-based patient and clinic management platform for dialysis treatment. Managing of one project team to implement cloud-based patient dialysis management. Conducting scoping workshops with business owner, POs, requirements engineers and business analysts. Setting up release and deployment plans. Conducting stakeholder management and management reporting. Setting up the full project structure in Azure DevOps.
Key Contributions:
- Conducting two scoping workshops for one business and development team each to define business, vision, deliverables and features, backlog, architecture, deployment plan, dependencies and risks
- Coaching of one development team consisting of 10 developers, QA, BA, PO by adapting Scrum framework and providing team building workshops
- Setting up the overall project framework for the whole platform in Azure DevOps including a general feature deployment plan, 6 team paths and iterations, risk register and resource planning
Key Contributions:
• Coaching of two teams consisting of one data science and one development team by individualising frameworks like Scrum and Kanban, and providing team building workshops
• Partaking in practitioner meet ups to exchange on best practices between agile coaches, scrum master and facilitators
• Conducting company wide 2.5 day long workshops for software and product teams on organisational design, agility, values, feedback culture, and serious playing
Part of a company-wide software-development program including 18 development teams to digitise asset management and facility handling of power plants. Conducting workshops on backlog creation, and user stories. Connecting iterative software development cycles with waterfall planned facility cycles.
Key Contributions:
- Coaching of two teams consisting of software engineers, business stakeholders, and QAs in adapting and individualising frameworks like Scrum and Kanban
- Designing a deployment framework together with management to coordinate deployments and dependencies between the development and business teams with SAFE and LeSS approaches
- Initiating practitioner meet ups to exchange on best practices between agile coaches, software engineers, QAs and POs
Setting up the software development organisation, coaching and forming of a development team consisting of 9 junior and senior developers, QA, PO. Designing the product vision together with the PO in building MVPs and establishing a structured and prioritised backlog. Conducting workshops to define the team approach as a mix of Scrum and Kanban elements.
Key Contributions:
- Enhancing market understanding by introducing A/B test, persona creation, and relative goals leading to a customer retention increase of 27%
- Establishing a company-wide business priority among support, customer care and
marketing departments - Opening up communications channels between business and development team to provide mutual market feedback and with that enhancing the value creation for customers
- Growing the team from 3 to 9 full-stack developers, 2 QAs, 1 PO and setting up of the development framework using Scrum leading to a reduction of bug and production incidents by 33% by setting quality standards (DoDs) and introducing peer-reviews, and automated testing
Key Contributions:
Taking over Scrum Master role for one development team of 8 developers and 1 PO on MVP building, incremental development approach, roles within the Scrum framework
Client executive coaching for CEO and head of product on iterative product development, A/B testing, leadership roles, and scaling agile frameworks
Key Contributions:
Coaching of two development teams including 10 developers and a PO in adapting to MVP building, small increment deployments, implementing Scrum framework and its role modelling for refactoring of two of their core revenue products and
Adapting a Scrum of Scrum approach and introducing PO and Proxy POs for the whole product suite of 4 different products
Management coaching of 1 CTO and 3 dev managers on roadmap planning, feature prioritization and servant leadership to developers
Key Contributions:
Managing a budget of €9.6M and an international on- and off-shore project team of 35 people Designed the overall Scrum project setup including staffing of POs, Scrum Master and data scientists
Managed three international service providers from India, Germany, and Switzerland located in five different locations
Stakeholder management toward level-one management together with the IT project manager
Full organizational transformation of a hierarchy-driven organization into a selfmanaged one consisting of more than 50 employees Coaching of the CEO to seize power into the organization and defining his new role Coaching of all employees on self-management (including the new role and circle model)
Key Contributions:
Managing a budget of €0.9M and a project team of 8 people Designed the PMO structure including a reporting structure for the executive board and a setup of a prioritization matrix for the staffing of project resources Designed and held more than 15 agile Scrum and Kanban trainings for project managers
Key Contributions:
Successful software rollout within seven months Managing a budget of €1.1M and a project team of 6 people Managed two international service providers located in Canada and India
Key Contributions:
Managed an initial budget of €0.5M and 10 team members
Managed a budget of €6M after proving the business model
Set up the initial Scrum team and coached the team member on the job
Scaled up the initial agile setup with to LeSS and SAFE for up to 450 employees
Key Contributions:
Led a team of 12 mostly young people
Increased incoming sales leads by 30% and customer-satisfaction
Introduction of a KPI-driven cockpit to enable people to measure customer and client satisfaction and test efficiency of new methods, channels and ideas
Initiated the real estate company and performed various real estate projects (including the delivery of several projects and the internal company build-up with Kanban). Developed and sustained strategic partnerships with vendors for business expansion.
Key Contributions:
Captured new business opportunities and attained real estate project worth of 3M€.
Scaling the business up to yearly revenues of 5 million € and 12 employees
Agile setup of the business organization with Kanban frameworks
Project management of the chateau restauration with a budget volume of 1.5 million€
Market placement within the event and hotel industry generating revenuers of 500k € during the first year
Horizontal agile project management together with 3 employees
Key Contributions:
Managed the comprehensive business planning, roll out, and business development including leadership for an international team of 4 people
Streamlined complete business operations, while remaining within 500k budget.
Secured business deals with the Saudi government worth €1.5M and directed a team of four international and Saudi employees.
Key Contributions:
Scaling the business by creating yearly revenue streams of €3.5M Created user traffic of more than 10k visits per month
Design of the business organization with Kanban frameworks leading a team of 12 employees.