Jörn hendrik (Hendrik) Ast
Agile Coach
Experience
Jul 2022 - Apr 2024
1 year 10 monthsBerlin, Germany
Agile Coach
50Hertz Transmission GmbH
- Development of a scaled-agile working model for the work dimensions: values, roles, events, artefacts and workflows
- Team size: four delivery teams with 48 team members, five product owners, three agile masters
- Development of strategies in the area of scaled-agile product development according to Scrum, LeSS and the New Work Heroes transformation helix
- Moderation of the SOL Planning Workshop for the overall project with more than 100 participants (PI planning according to SAFe)
- Coaching of all five areas their managers for the SOL Planning Workshop (structuring the work packages, preparing the planning board)
- Coaching and mentoring for the three Agile Masters in the scaled-agile team environment (four+ delivery teams)
- Moderation of scaled agile events, such as Sprint Planning I-III, Multiteam Refinement II, Sprint Review, overall team retrospective
- Support in consulting for stakeholder management and the strategic area of all project partners (construction site management: Inge, ARGE, cable producer NKT GmbH)
- Support for increasing measurability and the development of metrics according to agile product development
- Moderation of workshops, training and coaching for the overall project
- Methods and tools: Product Ownership, Scrum Mastery, Systems Thinking, User Story Mapping, Teamhood (backlog ticketing system), Miro, Kanban, Flight Level; certifications: LeSS Certified Practitioner, SAFe PI-Planning Moderator
Mar 2021 - Nov 2023
2 years 9 monthsHerzogenaurach, Germany
Agile Coach
adidas AG
- Agile Coaching: provided clarity on the agile maturity of all product and feature teams through the adidas internal Success Framework with more than 30 metrics from product set-up to planning, cooperation, DevOps and continuous delivery
- Cooperation with an international Agile Coaches team; OKR consulting, moderation of workshops with teams and management
- Implementation of LeSS principles for the scaled team structure, focus on cross-team events like Product Team Refinement, Product Team Planning and Global Reviews
- Leadership Coaching in new agile roles: responsibilities and role descriptions, stakeholder management through stakeholder mapping and personal leadership coaching sessions
- Creation of the Agile Playbook in Confluence for onboarding, implementation of Flow Metrics and Flight Level methodologies with examples and success cases
- Methods and tools: Scrum Mastery, LeSS, OKRs, User Story Mapping, Atlassian Tool Stack (Jira, Confluence), Atlassian Plugins (Upraise, Advanced Roadmap, EazyBI), Flow Framework, Flight Level
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
1 year 1 monthCologne, Germany
Agile Coach
yello Strom GmbH
- Supported business modeling, pivoting and growth hacking following Lean Startup methodology for existing and new business models
- Further development of customer journeys according to Customer Experience/Centricity models
- Coaching in the area of the Yello Agile Flow: events, artifacts, roles, Scrum Mastery, impact/story mapping, Scaled Scrum/SoS
- One-on-one coaching with the Business Owner and the Product Owners
- Coronability coaching and remote work sessions on the impact of the pandemic-related 100% home office situation
- Methods and tools: Scrum Mastery, OKRs, Lean Startup, Business Modeling/Investment Portfolio Modeling, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Flight Levels
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
5 monthsFacilitator
Diverse / Coronability Support
- DCSO GmbH: three-part strategy workshop with leadership team for upcoming investment round
- PROLAN Datensysteme GmbH: user story mapping workshop for the pitch to develop an individual CRM for Amnesty International
- AVM GmbH / Fritz!Box: Idea Loop creative workshop for Instagram content strategy
- Eisenschmidt Consulting Crew: Idea Loop creative workshop for the launch strategy of the MAIN7 online course for organizational development
- AWIN AG: Coronability team coaching for 24 worldwide, remotely working executives
- design for human nature: Coronability team workshop for a client
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
4 monthsHerzogenaurach, Germany
Agile Coach
adidas AG
- Scrum Mastery: moderation of agile events, coaching in the use of agile artifacts
- Cooperation with an international 20-person Agile Coaches team; conception and implementation of an adidas internal Agile Maturity Framework
- OKR consulting: moderation of workshops with teams and management, development of a method from OKRs to the product backlog (reporting and training)
- Requirements workshops: Definition of Ready/Done, User Story Mapping, user story cutting, magic estimation, user acceptance criteria, product backlog workshops, Jira sprint boards and labeling
- Leadership Coaching in new agile roles: responsibilities and role descriptions, stakeholder management through stakeholder mapping and personal leadership coaching sessions
- Methods and tools: Scrum Mastery, OKRs, User Story Mapping, Atlassian Tool Stack (Jira, Confluence)
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
5 monthsCoburg, Germany
Agile Coach
HUK Coburg
- Scrum Mastery: moderation of agile events, coaching in the use of agile artifacts
- Product backlog workshops, coaching on agile roles, agile requirements (story cutting methods, magic estimation, user acceptance criteria definition)
- Agile workshops: conception and moderation of formats such as Agile Thinking, Scrum method, User Story Mapping
- Methods and tools: Scrum Mastery, User Story Mapping, Atlassian Tool Stack (Jira, Confluence)
Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
1 year 3 monthsWolfsburg, Germany
Agile Coach
Volkswagen AG
- Agile requirements coaching: user story cutting methods, estimates, user acceptance criteria definition
- Collaboration with a team of 15 Agile Coaches; conception and implementation of an Agile Maturity Framework
- Conception and moderation of agile workshop formats: Scrum/SAFe Framework, Agile Requirements, User Story Mapping
- Scrum Mastery: moderation of agile events, coaching in the use of agile artifacts, coaching on agile roles
- Coaching during PI-Plannings with more than 1,500 participants; workshops with feature teams and international DevTeams
- Integration workshops with markets (North America, China) and brands (Seat, Škoda) in Wolfsburg and Prague
- Methods and tools: Scrum Mastery, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), User Story Mapping, Atlassian Tool Stack (Jira, Confluence)
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
4 monthsStuttgart, Germany
Agile Coach and Facilitator
Daimler AG
- Design and facilitation for the internal leadership roadshow for Mercedes-Benz Trucks; facilitation of Design Thinking and innovation workshops for an intrapreneurship team of MBVD
- Agile Coach for a groupwide employee Swarm; design and facilitation of strategy workshops for the Leadership 2020 initiative
- Methods and tools: Scrum Mastery, Service Design, Facilitation
May 2017 - Aug 2017
4 monthsBerlin, Germany
Scrum Master Hospitation
idealo Internet GmbH
- Moderated dailies, weeklies and retrospectives
- Supported sprint planning and accompanied the Agile Coaches in huddles
- Methods and tools: Scrum, Kanban
Summary
44 years old, father of a 16 years old daughter, Author, Filmmaker and Podcaster at New Work Heroes, Kundalini Yoga
Skills
- Agile Coaching
- Certified Less Practitioner
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner
- Pi-planning Moderator
- Okr-master
- Author
- Keynote Speaker
Topics:
- Large Scale Scrum
- Organisational Design
- Personal Development
Industries:
- Automotive
- Construction
- Energy
- Fmcg
- Insurances
- Tech-startups
- Tourism
- Wholesale
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedPortuguese
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2005 - Sep 2006
Universität Hamburg
Sociology · Hamburg, Germany
Aug 1999 - Feb 2002
Dirala Blankeneser Werkstätten GmbH
Apprenticeship as interior decorator (Raumausstatter-Lehre) · Hamburg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
LeSS Certified Practitioner
Lean Sherpas GmbH
Certified Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
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