Strategic Development, Implementation and Training of an agile working model

Strategic development, implementation and training of an agile working model for the SuedOstLink project in the area of civil engineering/lines. The SuedOstLink (volume: EUR 1.9bn) is the biggest infrastructure project in Germany to transport electricity over a length of 540km.

• Development of an scaled-agile working model for the work dimensions: values, roles, events, artefacts and workflows
• Team size: four delivery teams with 48 team members, 5 product owners, 3 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 +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 (4+ 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: LeSS (Certified LeSS Practitioner Workshop), SAFe (PI-Planning Moderation), Product Ownership, Scrum Mastery, Systems Thinking, User Story Mapping, Teamhood (Backlog Ticketing System), Miro, Kanban, Flight Level

Agile coaching for the Digital Platforms cluster and the four associated teams in a scaled agile environment. in the following areas:

• Support for business modeling, pivoting and growth hacking following the Lean Startup methodology for existing and new business models.
• Further development of the different customer journeys of the teams 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.
• 1'o'1 Coaching with the Business Owner and the Product Owners
• Coronability coaching and remote work sessions with the teams 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

Agile coach for the Agile Transition project "Future of IT" in a scaled, agile environment with 300 teams. Coaching of the Digital Asset Management product area with four product teams and distributed IT development teams (Hyderabad, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine) in the following areas:

• Scrum Mastery: Moderation of agile events, coaching in the use of agile artifacts
• Cooperation with an international 20-person Agile Coaches team from four adidas locations, conception and implementation of an adidas internal Agile Maturity Framework
• OKR consulting: Moderation of workshops with the teams and management, development of a method from OKR's to the product backlog (reporting and training)
• Requirements: Workshops on Definition of Ready/ Done (DoR/ DoD), User Story Mapping, User Story Cutting, Magic Estimation, User Acceptance Criteria (UAC), Product Backlog Workshops, Jira Sprint Boards and Labeling
• Leadership Coaching in the fulfillment of 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)

E3 Moderation of the International Network Meeting

Agile Coach and Facilitator for various projects of the Daimler Group:

• Design and facilitation for the internal leadership roadshow for Mercedes Benz Trucks. Facilitation of Design Thinking and Innovation workshops for a Intrapreneurship team of the MBVD.
• Agile Coach for a Groupwide employee Swarm. Design and facilitation for strategy workshops of the Leadership 2020 initiative.

Methods and Tools: Scrum Mastery, Service Design, Facilitation

Workshop for the Corporate Accelerator Journey

Moderating dailies, weeklies and retrospectives. Sprint planning and accompaniment of the Agile Coaches in Huddles.

Methods and Tools: Scrum, Kanban

Workshop on digital leadership for 15 leaders

Candidate Journey Workshop

Design and facilitation of a six-part sales training

Development of a Design Thinking Workshop

Design and facilitation of an innovation workshop series