Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach

Project: STEP Master Data Recording and Maintenance System

• Leading transformation project including introduction and establishment of agile approach and Scrum framework with Kanban elements
• Collaborating with teams and individual members - strengthening team self-organization, supporting independent actions, promoting effective collaboration, conducting various trainings
• Organizing and moderating Scrum events - adhering to timeboxes, constructive atmosphere, organizing team meetings
• Supporting backlog management and team building measures
• Ensuring and controlling information flow between Product Owner and team
• Optimizing activities with continuous team performance improvement
• Establishing communication management - ensuring open communication within/between teams and with stakeholders
• Removing impediments
• Creating/improving/optimizing processes (requirements, UHD, change management, interface management)
• Establishing collaboration between 5 cross-functional teams of ~10 members each
• Creating competency matrix and organizing knowledge transfer
• Collaborating on test restructuring
• Coaching partner areas to improve collaboration in Scrum environment
• Creating, presenting and evolving Scrum implementation roadmap
• Organizing and moderating Communities of Practice
• Using Kanban elements (boards)

Project: Electronic Data Transmission of Emission Values (EMBE)

Environmental protection project enabling facility operators and measuring institutes to create reports and measurements of facility emission values through a central user-oriented interface. Focus on measurement plan verification and report transmission to testing center.

• Introduction and enhancement of Scrum framework
• Organization and moderation of Scrum events
• Ensuring knowledge transfer and exchange within/outside team through cross-project communities, SharePoint communities, MS Teams chat groups
• Removing impediments like personnel changes, daily meeting optimization, stakeholder attendance, conflict resolution, external task avoidance, supplier issues, resource conflicts
• Multi-level communication - within teams, technical level, stakeholders, management
• Story quality improvement measures using INVEST principle
• Backlog refinement organization improvement
• Supporting team in reaching commitments/goals
• Implementing performance, efficiency and effectiveness improvement measures
• Monitoring sprint and project goal progress
• Developing sprint review approach

Project: Securities and Banking Customer Processes

• Further development of internet banking solution replacing older system including data migration
• Introduction of new options for stationary and media giro account management and securities trading
• Development of multiple data filtering options

Key responsibilities:

• Development and coaching of agile method (Scrum in SAFe environment)
• Moderation of cross-team events
• Ensuring cross-team exchange
• Organizing Scrum events
• Supporting Product Owner with changing scope - backlog correctness, stakeholder communication
• JIRA and Confluence administration
• Extended individual coaching for team with limited Scrum experience
• Supporting organizational development
• Ensuring information flow between teams

Project: eCommerce Product Development

• Development of web application for customers and business departments
• Development of eGarage eCommerce web application
• Development of web portal for application access
• Development of mobile application version
• Creation of application management system

Key responsibilities:

• Standard Scrum Master duties
• Scrum scaling
• Defining and implementing measures to improve team collaboration including conflict management and motivation improvement

Project: Document Management System (DMS)

• Migration of document creation, archiving and dispatch
• Interdisciplinary project with strong company-wide dependencies

Key responsibilities:

• Ensuring Scrum rules compliance
• Scrum scaling
• Implementing changes for team productivity improvement
• Quality assurance of increments
• Ensuring information flow through reporting and result presentation
• Optimizing multiple development teams on one product
• Supporting release process
• Moderating change management in business areas

Project: Hotel Booking Capabilities Extension

• Implementation of Scrum Master duties for three eCommerce teams extending hotel booking capabilities with SABRE (USA), TravelSky (China) and AMADEUS (France) offerings
• Supporting distributed project team (Cologne, Warsaw)