Johannes S.

Agile Consultant

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Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Mar 2023 - Present
2 years 10 months

Agile Consultant

Self-employed

  • Advising on the initial introduction of agile working methods
  • Guiding the project team in agile practices
  • Coordinating a project team of 15 key users
  • Facilitating regular meetings (sprints, etc.)
  • Advising on the Scrum process
  • Identifying and removing obstacles in the project process
  • Implementing Atlassian Jira & Confluence
  • Establishing a project management office in the IT department
May 2022 - Oct 2022
6 months

Agile Master & Scrum Master

Self-employed

  • Scrum Master in a scaled Scrum environment based on LeSS
  • Responsible for 1 Scrum and 2 Kanban teams
  • Defining dynamic product development processes using the Kanban method
  • Improving existing software development processes to establish a customer-specific agile process
  • Preparing, following up, and facilitating Kanban meetings (Daily, Retro, Planning, Refinement, and Estimation)
  • Identifying and removing impediments during the project and creating and maintaining a backlog of improvements
  • Defining a metric to show changes in development speed
  • Setting up agile development processes to improve speed and quality
  • Improving story quality using the INVEST method
  • Identifying common time wasters and defining measures to reduce them
  • Enhancing team processes to increase performance
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
1 year 11 months

Scrum Master

Self-employed

  • Scrum Master in a scaled Scrum environment with 6 teams
  • Introducing and further developing agile methods for a development team
  • Facilitating Scrum meetings
  • Coaching teams and colleagues in agile practices
  • Co-introducing scaled Scrum processes
  • Introducing cross-team Scrum meetings
  • Coaching the new Product Owner with a focus on cross-team user stories and backlog management
  • Supporting the team in meeting sprint goals
  • Assisting in removing impediments inside and outside the team
  • Mediating team conflicts (Nonviolent Communication according to Rosenberg)
  • Developing conflict resolution skills in the team (5 Dysfunctions, Team Clock, NVC, etc.)
  • Designing and conducting tailored retrospectives
  • Optimizing team communication via MS Teams, Jira, and Confluence
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
3 years 6 months

Executive Assistant in an agile environment

Self-employed

  • Transitioning office organization to an agile approach
  • Organizing work by agile principles: working in sprints, planning poker, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, Kanban boards
  • Taking on Scrum Master tasks
  • Project controlling
  • Budget planning
  • Managing several external service providers (e.g., payroll)
  • Managing and optimizing recruiting processes
  • Office management including budget responsibility
Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
1 year 4 months

Project Management

Self-employed

  • Managing multiple projects in business development, mergers & acquisitions, and business growth
  • Conducting market analysis
  • Assisting in developing business plans
  • Leading workshops
Jan 2010 - Sep 2013
3 years 9 months

End-customer consultant

Self-employed

  • Development of custom service packages for clients
  • Organizing work in classic line management with flexible goals

Skills

  • Agile Mindset

  • Project Management

  • Scrum (Psm I Certified)

  • Agile Management

  • Organizational, Team, And Leadership Development

  • Conflict Moderation

  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux (Kubuntu), Ios

  • Office: Ms Office, Libreoffice, Google Docs/sheets

  • Tools: Jira, Confluence, Azure Devops, Sharepoint, Redmine (Ticket System), Git, Miro

  • Communication: Outlook, Thunderbird, Ms Teams, Slack, Google Calendar, Whatsapp

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Hamburg Wandsbek Tax Office

Hamburg, Germany

University of Hamburg

Bachelor of Arts, Market-Oriented Management · Socioeconomics · Hamburg, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

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