Janus Thomys

Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach (scaled Scrum, total of 4 teams)

Hemmingen, Germany

Experience

Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
4 months
Bremen, Germany

Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach (scaled Scrum, total of 4 teams)

DMK

  • Project: Secure.NOW: Redesign of all IT security aspects
  • Redesign of the company’s IT security aspects
  • Optimization of agile work using Scrum as the framework
  • Coaching the teams and individual team members with goals to:
  • increase collaboration efficiency both within and outside the team
  • improve team effectiveness and performance
  • foster a culture of continuous improvement
  • promote and support the use of agile methods with Scrum as the framework:
  • adherence to Scrum values
  • team self-organization
  • preboarding of the internal Scrum Master
Mar 2024 - Dec 2025
10 months
Nuremberg, Germany

Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach (scaled Scrum, total of 5 teams)

Bundesagentur für Arbeit

  • Project: Transformation project: STEP master data collection and maintenance system
  • STEP started as a V-Model project and was to be transformed into Scrum
  • STEP is a central application at BA and integrates with most systems and processes
  • Implementation of legal, customer, and partner requirements (RfC)
  • Development and redesign of over 30 interfaces
  • Leading a transformation project with goals to:
  • introduce and establish agile methods
  • implement Scrum as the agile framework with Kanban elements
  • collaboration with teams and individual team members:
  • strengthen team self-organization
  • support team members’ self-responsible actions
  • foster effective and collaborative teamwork
  • conducted multiple trainings on various topics with different audiences (including brown bag sessions)
  • organization and facilitation of Scrum events (ceremonies):
  • adherence to time-boxing
  • maintaining a constructive atmosphere
  • scheduling team events in coordination with the team
  • support in backlog management
  • team-building measures
  • ensuring and managing information flow between Product Owner and team
  • optimizing activities for continuous performance improvement of the team
  • establish communication management:
  • ensure open and constructive communication within teams, between teams, and with stakeholders and management
  • remove impediments
  • create/improve/optimize processes (e.g., requirements, incident management, change management, interface management)
  • establish collaboration among 5 cross-functional teams of about 10 members each
  • create competency matrix and organize knowledge transfer
  • collaborate on test redesign
  • coach partner departments to improve collaboration in a Scrum environment
  • create, present, and update the roadmap for Scrum implementation
  • organize and facilitate Communities of Practice (CoP)
  • use Kanban elements in the project (Kanban boards)
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
1 year
Germany

Scrum Master (scaled Scrum, 2 teams)

Ministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Transformation und Digitalisierung, Rheinland-Pfalz

  • Project: Notifications and information obligations under the Federal Immission Control Act
  • Digital implementation of forms for notifications and information obligations of the Federal Immission Control Act
  • As part of the Online Access Act, the process for occupational safety and the Industrial Safety Regulation in the “Immission Control Online” field is digitized
  • Federal digitalization project (FITKO budget)
  • Rollout of the software in all federal states
  • Project language: English
  • introduction and evolution of the Scrum framework with Kanban elements:
  • use of digital whiteboards
  • sprint transition planning
  • organization and moderation of Scrum events (ceremonies)
  • building role understanding (developer, tester, product owner):
  • organizing trainings, meetings, and workshops on these roles
  • role development within the team
  • organization of team-building workshops:
  • guidance and support in setting up self-managing teams
  • defining and communicating collaboration guidelines within the team
  • building and growing a DevSecOps team:
  • defining test approaches
  • implementing test automation
  • adopting continuous integration
  • incorporating security aspects
  • setting up monitoring tools
  • supporting and coaching the Product Owner:
  • methodological support
  • creating the product vision
  • stakeholder management
  • managing the product backlog
  • refining backlog items
  • setting and achieving sprint goals
  • quality of epics and stories in JIRA
  • running backlog refinements
  • daily operations support
  • managing communication flow with the team
  • planning production releases
  • multiple clarification meetings
  • monitoring adherence to Scrum values in the team
  • collaborating and regularly exchanging with other Scrum Masters
  • JIRA and Confluence administration
Dec 2022 - Jan 2024
1 year 2 months
Germany

Scrum Master

Ministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie und Mobilität, Rheinland-Pfalz

  • Project: Electronic transmission of emissions data (EMBE)
  • This environmental project enables operators and measurement institutes to create and submit reports of facility emissions via a central, user-friendly interface. The focus is on checking the measurement plan and forwarding the measurement report to the auditing body.
  • Federal transition and digitalization project (FITKO budget)
  • Rollout of the software in all federal states
  • integration with ELSTER (electronic tax returns)
  • introduction and evolution of the Scrum framework
  • organization and moderation of Scrum events (ceremonies)
  • ensuring knowledge transfer and exchange within and outside the team:
  • organizing cross-project communities
  • setting up SharePoint communities for cross-project knowledge sharing (e.g., developers, analysts, testers, technical writers)
  • creating chat groups in MS Teams for project-specific exchanges
  • removing impediments such as:
  • team personnel changes
  • optimizing daily meeting flow
  • stakeholders missing Sprint Reviews
  • conflict resolution
  • preventing external tasks from creeping in
  • issues with external suppliers
  • resolving temporary resource conflicts
  • supporting organizational topics
  • communicating at multiple levels:
  • within teams
  • technical level
  • with stakeholders
  • with management
  • quality improvement measures for stories:
  • adoption of the INVEST principle
  • clarity for all developers
  • sharing upcoming refinement stories in advance to allow developers to prepare and flag understanding issues
  • improving backlog refinement organization and flow:
  • creating estimation guidelines with examples together with the team
  • ensuring and supporting the team in meeting commitments/goals:
  • organizing knowledge transfer and exchange
  • defining and implementing improvement measures for team performance, efficiency, and effectiveness
  • monitoring progress toward sprint and project goals
  • developing a Sprint Review process:
  • who/what/how long/in what order presents
Dec 2022 - Nov 2023
1 year
Germany

Scrum Master, Agile Coach

Ministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Transformation und Digitalisierung, Rheinland-Pfalz

  • Project: Industrial Safety Regulation (BESI)
  • Environmental protection project ensuring compliance with the Industrial Safety Regulation for operators of facilities like gas stations, storage tanks, fueling stations, etc.
  • Compliance is ensured from the application for operating permits through operation, documented and tracked with the project software.
  • Federal transition and digitalization project (FITKO budget)
  • Rollout of the software in all federal states
  • establish and promote team self-management
  • introduce and foster agile working methods and culture
  • coaching in agile best practices aimed at continuous process improvement
  • implementing actions defined in retrospectives
  • facilitating and supporting cross-team events
  • results orientation:
  • supporting the team in focusing on delivering high-quality increments
  • enforcing the Definition of Done (DoD)
  • establishing TDD (Test-Driven Development)
  • organizing test processes, e.g.:
  • creating test cases
  • setting up test automation
  • timely testing
  • introducing the zero-defect program “Zero Defects/Get It Right the First Time”
  • liaising with developers for rapid responses
  • coaching and supporting the team in managing the sprint backlog:
  • maintaining JIRA entries: correct status, assignee, remaining story points
  • creating subtasks in JIRA (refinement)
  • prioritizing story workflow (e.g., largest first)
  • coaching the team on agile values:
  • supporting team members in promoting agile values and culture within the organization
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
1 year 11 months
Münster, Germany

Scrum Master, Agile Coach (scaled Scrum, 3 teams)

Finanz Informatik GmbH Co. KG

  • Scrum Master in securities and banking customer processes
  • enhancements to an internet banking solution replacing an older system, including data migration
  • adding new options for in-branch and digital checking account management and securities trading
  • developing multiple data filtering options
  • project for around 400 savings banks in collaboration with partners (e.g., DEKA, dwp Bank)
  • continuous improvement and coaching of Scrum in a SAFe environment
  • moderation of cross-team events
  • ensuring cross-team exchange
  • organization and moderation of Scrum events (ceremonies)
  • supporting the Product Owner with a frequently changing scope:
  • ensuring correctness and currency of the product backlog
  • helping communicate scope change impacts to stakeholders (stakeholder management)
  • JIRA and Confluence administration
  • advanced individual coaching (team had limited Scrum experience)
  • supporting organizational evolution:
  • fostering agile interactions
  • ensuring information flow to/from other teams
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020
3 years 10 months
Münster, Germany

Scrum Master, Agile Coach (scaled Scrum, 3 teams)

Finanz Informatik GmbH Co. KG

  • Scrum Master in a transformation project for securities processes
  • design and deployment of a new internet banking solution
  • development of the central internet portal with multiple functional extensions
  • creating options for capital accounts, savings accounts (personal and business)
  • data migration to the DWH
  • developing new data filtering features
  • project for about 400 savings banks with partners (e.g., DEKA, dwp Bank)
  • introducing agile teams within a PRINCE2 project
  • implementing and scaling the Scrum framework
  • coaching and assisting in creating/updating the Definition of Done (DoD)
  • coaching on defining sprint goals
  • training new Scrum Masters and Product Owners
  • supporting DevSecOps production environment setup:
  • continuous integration
  • test automation redesign
  • agile security aspects
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
7 months
Neuss, Germany

Scrum Master for 3 teams (scaled)

LeasePlan GmbH

  • Project: development of an eCommerce product
  • building a web application for customers and business users
  • creating the eGarage eCommerce web application
  • developing a web portal for application access
  • mobile version of the application
  • building an application management system
  • typical Scrum Master tasks
  • scaling Scrum
  • defining and implementing measures to improve collaboration among teams (including conflict management, motivation boosting)
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
8 months
Neuss, Germany

Scrum Master

LeasePlan GmbH

  • Project: customer master data
  • redesign of customer structures
  • building a modern DWH structure
  • data migration into the DWH
  • creating multiple data filtering options
  • training business users
  • typical Scrum Master tasks plus the additional responsibilities described in other projects for this client
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
9 months
Neuss, Germany

Scrum Master (scaled Scrum, 2 teams)

LeasePlan GmbH

  • Project: Document Management System (DMS)
  • migration of document creation, archiving, and distribution
  • interdisciplinary project with strong company-wide dependencies
  • responsible for enforcing Scrum rules
  • scaling Scrum
  • implementing changes to boost team productivity
  • quality assurance of increments (deliverables)
  • ensuring information flow:
  • between teams through reporting and presenting work results
  • among program/project participants (PO) and stakeholders
  • organizing meetings
  • optimizing multiple development teams working on one product
  • organizing and actively supporting the release process
  • facilitating and managing change in business units
Sep 2014 - Aug 2015
1 year
Neuss, Germany

Scrum Master, Agile Coach (scaled Scrum, 3 teams)

LeasePlan GmbH

  • Project: central personnel management
  • enhancing an application for processing driver master data including storage media for financial and insurance processing
  • project touched nearly every area of the company
  • responsible for enforcing agile practices (Scrum)
  • promoting agile culture
  • scaling Scrum
  • actively assisting with company-wide Definition of Done creation and updates
  • organizing and facilitating Scrum events (ceremonies)
  • supporting Test-Driven Development (including coaching)
  • identifying, analyzing, and resolving issues and impediments
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
5 months
Cologne, Germany

Scrum Master (scaled Scrum, 3 teams)

HRS

  • Project: expanding hotel booking options
  • serving as Scrum Master for three eCommerce teams adding SABRE (USA), TravelSky (China), and AMADEUS (France) offerings
  • supporting a distributed team (Cologne, Warsaw)
Jan 2008 - Present
17 years 7 months

Self-employed

Aug 1996 - Dec 2008
11 years 5 months
Hanover, Germany

Department Head, Project Manager

dvg Hannover/FinanzIT Hannover

  • Department head
  • Project manager

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

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Doctor of Mathematical Sciences · Mathematical Sciences

Certifications & licenses

ITIL 4

Certified Scrum Master

ITIL 3.0

PRINCE2