Agile Coach

Improve agile project management:

• Design and implement an initiative to improve agile project management quality in collaboration with the Global Development Lead and the project managers.
• Coaching and advising on the implementation of agile approaches in line with Automotive SPICE.
• Advising and supporting the daily use of project management tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Conception and development of an MVP for a claim management system with Jira and Confluence.
• Regularly conducting retrospectives at team and project level to ensure incremental improvements.
• Establishment of effective self-management practices and short feedback cycles through improved use of project management tools.
• Successful development of a claim management system.
• Sustainable improvement through regular retrospectives.
• Agile Project Management (PMI)
• Agile Leadership
• Scrum4HW
• LeSS
• Kanban
• Automotive SPICE
• Liberating Structures
• Systems Engineering
• Jira
• Confluence
• Miro

Startup virtual workshop SAAS. Online Video-Conferencing Startup (SaaS).

• Development and market testing of the business model and product idea using Lean Startup, Value Proposition Design and Testing Business Ideas.
• Emergent development of a product roadmap and product backlog.
• Daily collaboration with a distributed, virtual DevOps team in the development of the Minimum Marketable Product (MMP).
• Conducting customer interviews and competitive and market analysis.
• Successful development and validation of a new business model and product idea through innovative methods.
• Effective collaboration with a virtual DevOps team to develop a marketable product.
• Lean Startup
• Testing Business Ideas
• Value Proposition Design
• Agile Roadmaps
• Agile Leadership
• Scrum
• Liberating Structures
• Systems Engineering
• Jira
• Confluence
• Miro

Coaching Scrum Master & PO:

• Individual coaching of a rookie Scrum Master, Product Owner and product development team.
• Empowering the Scrum Master to develop an agile team and supporting the PO in developing a product vision and roadmap.
• Successfully enabled and trained the Scrum Master to further develop the Scrum team.
• PO delivers a product vision and roadmap in a timely manner.
• Agile values & principles
• Agile Leadership
• Scrum
• Kanban

Agile coaching leadership team:

• Agile team and individual coaching for the team of department heads and the business unit head, including Kanban coaching at flight level 2 (end-to-end coordination / operational portfolio management).
• Agile/Kanban consulting and coaching for several teams in the department.
• Communication of agile values and principles to teams and individual team members as well as application of Kanban on Flight Level 1 (Team / Operational).
• Promotion of empirical management and continuous improvement (CIP) as well as self-organization of the teams.
• Conducting retrospectives at team, department and division level.
• Successfully established a sustainable agile mindset in the company.
• Improved team coordination and efficiency through the successful introduction of Kanban.
• Increased the teams' self-organization skills and continuous improvement processes.
• Agile Values & Principles
• Agile Leadership
• Kanban
• Flight Levels
• Scrum
• Liberating Structures
• Miro

Coaching rookie Scrum Master:

• Individual coaching of a Rookie Scrum Master and two Rookie Product Owners to teach agile principles and agile practice.
• Enabling the Scrum Master to develop a Scrum team and supporting the Product Owner in the creation and maintenance of Product Vision and Product Backlog.
• Advising the DevTeams on the introduction of XP, BDD, TDD, CI/CD and entry into DevOps.
• Improved the understanding of agile SW development among Scrum Master and Product Owners.
• Successful introduction to incremental SW development and DevOps.
• Agile values & principles
• Scrum
• LeSS
• Kanban
• Agile Roadmaps
• XP
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• BDD
• TDD
• Microsoft TFS

Coaching multiple Scrum teams:

• Coaching solution/product squads and scrum teams in the creation of product vision, agile product roadmap and release planning.
• Coaching teams and individual team members on the application of agile values, principles and Scrum & LeSS framework.
• Co-trainer for Scrum trainings.
• Development of clear product visions and agile roadmaps.
• Increasing team performance by applying agile principles.
• Establishing empirical management and continuous improvement processes.
• Agile values & principles
• Scrum
• Scrum4HW
• LeSS
• Kanban
• eXtreme Manufacturing (XM)

Coaching business unit:

• Agile coaching (Scrum/LeSS) for twelve domain-specific Scrum teams including practices for agile release and project planning under ASPICE constraints.
• Conception and introduction of Continuous Integration / DevOps with Jenkins and RTC.
• Development and implementation of a strategy to improve agile testing according to Test Driven Development.
• Successful implementation of Scrum according to LeSS Huge.
• Higher product quality while shortening delivery times with the help of an efficient CI/CD pipeline and automated testing.
• Agile values & principles
• Scrum
• LeSS
• Kanban
• Continuous Integration (CI)
• Continuous Delivery (CD)
• DevOps
• TDD
• Agile Roadmaps
• Agile Release Planing
• ASPICE
• RTC
• DOORS
• Jenkins

Intro iterative SW-delivery:

• Coaching the project manager/product owner in agile release planning and in setting up and maintaining the release backlog.
• Coaching the 9-member project team and supporting iteration planning, review and retrospective meetings with one-week sprints and daily standup meetings.
• Introduction and application of agile SW development practices such as Pair Programming and Continuous Integration.
• Shortening of release cycles for user-specific adaptations from 6 to 2 months.
• Significant improvement in team coordination and efficiency through regular coordination and retrospectives.
• Agile values & principles
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Agile Requirements (Epic, Story)
• Lean Change
• Pair Programming
• Continuous Integration (CI)

Market study & SW-evaluation:

• Planning and conducting a market study on object-oriented, integrated plant engineering & design software solutions.
• Supporting the project team in capturing business processes, gap analysis and evaluating providers in terms of functionality, usability and global integration.
• Leading customer workshops, organizing provider workshops and tool demonstrations, and presenting the study results to management.
• Successful identification of the most suitable software solutions for the customer.
• Structured and well-founded basis for management decision-making through detailed analysis and presentation of the results.
• Project Management (PMI)
• Business Process Modelling
• Requirements Engineering
• Plant Engineering & Design Lifecycle
• IT Systems Engineering
• Pough Matrix
• MS Office
• Comos
• Aveva Plant
• Intergraph SmartPlant
• Bentley OpenPlant
• Autodesk Plant Design Suite
• ItandFactory Cadison
• Dassault Systems Catia
• CEA Systems Plant 4D

Evaluation of global IT-solution:

• Project planning and management with MS Project, including gap analysis, risk avoidance and contingency planning.
• Management of the technical conception in collaboration with Siemens and Microsoft, as well as the development of a test system for the evaluation of a global Siemens Comos 9.1 implementation.
• Conducting multi-level evaluation tests, processing of test results and reporting to stakeholders and governance boards.
• Successful evaluation of a global IT solution for parallel engineering and design of power plants.
• Provision of a sound basis for management decision-making through detailed test analysis and reporting.
• Project Management (PMI)
• Project Governance
• IT Systems Engineering
• IT Systems Testing
• Comos
• Citrix
• MS Projects
• MS Office

Plant engineering SW customization:

• Coordinating release planning with the program manager and stakeholders, as well as project planning and earned value management with MS Project.
• Managing risk and requirements in change review boards and tracking progress in weekly meetings.
• Evaluating and technically implementing customer-specific requirements in Siemens Comos 9.x.
• Successful introduction of several Siemens Comos releases as a standardized tool in plant engineering.
• Optimized release and project control through structured requirements management and continuous risk management.
• Project Management (PMI)
• Project Governance
• IT Systems Engineering
• IT Systems Testing
• Comos
• Citrix
• MS Projects
• MS Office

Performance benchmarking Comos 9:

• Planning and execution of an end-user performance benchmarking project for Comos 9.0 via Citrix with 10 global locations.
• Design, infrastructure rollout and monitoring of the laboratory and global test environment.
• Project planning and earned value management with MS Project as well as monitoring of the test team.
• Optimization of the performance of Comos 9.0 through structured tests, analyses and improvement of the network infrastructure.
• Improved scalability and efficiency of the Citrix environment through well-founded benchmarking results.
• Project Management (PMI)
• Project Governance
• IT Systems Engineering
• Comos
• MS Projects
• MS Office

Management & Engineering Consulting.

Telecommunication Startup (Transmission Networks).