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Matthias Lachmann

Systemic Strategist for Software Vendors | I build product organizations – portfolio, roadmap, operating model

Matthias Lachmann
Diepholz, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
1 year

Product-based operating model development

Event Destinations GmbH

  • New roles
  • Leadership methods
  • Governance
  • Operating model
  • Staff engagement and training
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
1 month

GDPR compliance

Rolf Brzezina Mineralölhandel GmbH

  • Data protection impact assessment for video surveillance
  • Record of processing activities
  • Data protection concept
  • Technical and organizational measures (ToM)
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
1 month

Corporate strategy realignment

easy Cube GmbH

  • Strategy realignment
  • Development of company vision
  • Governance strategy
  • Operating model
Aug 2024 - Present
1 year 6 months

Executive Coaching

Various clients

  • Leadership methods
  • Governance
  • Operating model
  • Product portfolio
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
1 month

Corporate strategy realignment

easy Cube GmbH

  • Strategy realignment
  • Development of company vision
  • Governance strategy
  • Operating model
Apr 2024 - Dec 2024
9 months

Acting Head of Product Management

Euregon AG

  • New roles
  • Quality assurance in product development
  • Continuous process optimization and strategy development
  • Refactoring of roadmaps and the overall Euregon strategy
  • Leadership coaching
  • Status report with metrics for product development
  • Strategic software product management
  • Internal training program for product managers
  • Go to market strategy
  • Market readiness analysis
  • Product business case
  • Risk management
  • Optimization of the software development process: Team 1: realignment of the end-to-end development process to SCRUM with Jira including capacity planning and control through metrics; Team 2: conversion of the end-to-end development process from SCRUM to Kanban including capacity planning and metrics-based control
  • Test concept
  • Release management
  • Cyber Resilience Act
Mar 2024 - Apr 2024
2 months

GDPR Compliance

On request

  • Data protection impact assessment for video surveillance
  • Record of processing activities
  • Data protection concept
  • Technical and organizational measures (ToM)
  • Information obligations
  • GDPR employee guidelines
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
1 month

Business model development and product development

Soliman IT Management Consulting

  • Business model canvas
  • Target group definition
  • Value Proposition Design
  • Market and environment analysis
  • Offering structure
  • Pricing
  • Go to market strategy
Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
8 months

Acting Operations Officer

CANCOM CZ

  • Operating model for the Energy Competence Center
  • Restructuring and realignment of the development team
  • Implementation of an operations officer role
  • Interim operational leadership of the Competence Center (> 50 employees)
  • Project roadmaps
  • Quality assurance
  • Test management
  • Software development process and operational workflows
  • Strategy and development standards
  • Business Development
  • Feasibility analyses
  • Cost planning and controlling
  • Team building and enablement
  • Benchmark analysis
  • Continuous improvement process (CIP)
  • Stakeholder management
  • Risk management
  • Governance
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
2 months

Corporate strategy realignment

Event Destinations GmbH

  • Shareholder structure
  • Strategy realignment
  • Development of company vision
  • Governance strategy
  • Operating model
Apr 2022 - Dec 2023
1 year 9 months

Interim Head of Product Management

CANCOM AT

  • Transformation from a project-driven to a product-driven organization
  • End-to-end delivery in software development
  • DevOps way of working (Scrum, Kanban, agile discipline) across several European sites
  • Introduction of new roles
  • Implementation of software product management
  • Portfolio management
  • Internal training program for product managers
  • Go-to-market strategies and business plans
  • Standardization
  • Leadership and management coaching
  • Audit-compliant documentation for roles and processes
  • Crisis management
  • Governance and compliance
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
3 months

Further development of agile practices in product management and software development

Euregon AG

  • Introduction of end-to-end software development processes
  • Introduction of new roles
  • Requirements management with JIRA
  • Scrum
  • Training on requirements management with user stories and epics
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
2 months

Implementation of data protection within TISAX certification

PDMM Holding GmbH

  • Creation of data protection policies
  • Documentation of impacted business processes
  • Documentation of data structure in IT systems
  • Blocking and deletion concept/data catalog
  • Data governance
  • Record of processing activities
  • Technical and organizational measures (TOM)
  • Work instructions, manuals, training materials
  • Employee training
Dec 2021 - Oct 2023
1 year 11 months

Managing Director and Product Owner

Praxion GmbH

  • Business model development
  • Software development (Scrum)
  • Process model for dental practices to comply with the IT security guideline according to § 75B SGB V
  • Online checklists, training videos, manuals, and guides considering the BSI IT-Grundschutz compendium
  • Blocking and deletion concept
  • Data governance
  • Data protection concept
  • Record of processing activities
  • Didactic preparation of technical information and templates
  • IT security
  • Writing and testing user stories
  • Go-to-market strategy
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year 3 months

Strategic consulting to focus the product portfolio

Vajotec GmbH

  • Strategy development
  • Market analysis
  • Positioning of the product portfolio
  • Business Model Canvas
  • Executive coaching
May 2021 - Sep 2021
5 months

GDPR compliance for international web portal

Quintessenz Verlags-GmbH

  • Data protection impact assessment
  • Action plan to mitigate risks
  • Business process documentation
  • Data blocking and deletion concept
  • Record of processing activities
  • Data governance
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
7 months

Migration of GDPR documentation and data protection impact assessments after acquisition

MediaFinanz GmbH

  • Data protection impact assessment
  • Data governance
  • Record of processing activities
  • Compliance consulting on documentation and GDPR processes
May 2020 - Sep 2021
1 year 5 months

Head of product management DACH ad interim

Lowell Group DACH

  • Setup of product management department
  • Training, coaching, and leading a team of six junior product managers
  • Implementation of portfolio management
  • Implementation of centralized requirements management
  • Optimization of the software development process "New Way of Working" (Spotify model, SAFe)
  • Stakeholder management at P, D, and C level
  • Market readiness analysis
  • Contributing to all-hands calls
  • GDPR by design
  • Audit and IT security activities
  • SWOT analysis
  • Process management
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
1 year 1 month

Introduction of agile working methods

Euregon AG

  • Optimization of the software development process
  • Conducted workshop "Introduction to the Agile World using Lego4Scrum"
  • SCRUM
  • Employee training
  • Support and coaching in planning, reviews, retrospectives, and refinements
  • Agile leadership
  • Introduction of product management
  • Coaching the CEO
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
1 year 6 months

Implementation of data protection impact assessments and development of blocking and deletion concept at all locations

Lowell Group DACH

  • Development of a model to structure and create data protection impact assessments
  • Process framework
  • Selection of software (PIA tool)
  • Creation of text modules
  • Training materials in collaboration with Head of Legal DACH and external consultant
  • Team building in 7 subsidiaries across DACH
  • Quality control and implementation of a creation and confirmation process
  • Model for creating and maintaining the blocking and deletion concept
  • Blocking and deletion concept
  • Data governance
  • CMDB
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
5 months

GDPR Compliance

Lowell Group DACH – mediaFinanz

  • Project assessment
  • GDPR compliance adjustments for the in-house developed debt management system INKOS
  • IT security check
  • Coordinating requirements management
  • Realignment of GDPR process documentation using Scrum
  • Process documentation of workflows
  • TOM (technical and organizational measures)
  • Record of processing activities
  • Pen test coordination
  • GDPR employee training
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
8 months

Project Manager GDPR implementation

Lowell Group DACH – Zyklop

  • Implementation of GDPR requirements in the debt management system AIS
  • Requirements management
  • Process documentation in ARIS using Scrum
  • Introducing workflows for GDPR requests
  • Record of processing activities
  • GDPR employee training
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
8 months

Project Manager GDPR implementation

Lowell Group DACH – Tesch

  • Implementation of GDPR requirements in the debt management system WinkPC
  • Requirements management
  • Process documentation in ARIS using Scrum
  • Introducing workflows for GDPR requests
  • GDPR employee training
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
2 months

Support during the tender for the federal program 'rückenwind'

St. Johannesstift gGmbH

  • Workshop on project design
  • Outlining a change management approach for employees
  • Drafting the project proposal based on agile methods
  • Project planning and cost estimation
  • Submission of the proposal
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
2 months

Consulting for the Chief Product Officer on strategy refinement

Sykosch AG

  • Reviewing and refining the existing strategy and company vision
  • Defining target groups
  • Market positioning
  • Process management and process mapping
  • Value proposition design canvas
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Providing tools and methodological knowledge for business process analysis, target group definition, and price model development
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
1 year 3 months

Head of Product Management Non-Profit

Haufe-Lexware GmbH

  • Strategic analysis of the division
  • Potential and product portfolio analysis
  • Cash-out of the business unit, splitting of the segments, sale of products and transfer to other business units
Jan 2014 - May 2017
3 years 5 months

Head of Product Management Real Estate

HLRE AG

  • Realignment of the product portfolio strategy including licensing and pricing models
  • Leading a six-person team
  • Methodical realignment of the department
  • Agile product management
  • Partner management
  • Change process in the company
  • Optimization of the software development process (SCRUM)
  • Strategic management of the product portfolio
  • Cooperation strategy for the Web ERP system Axera
  • Definition and monitoring of company-relevant KPIs
  • Responsibility for revenue and results
  • Implementation of cost unit accounting
  • KPI development
  • Strategy process across the entire group
  • Supporting the CTO and VP in technology, design and content strategy
Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
2 years

Business Unit Director Product Management

VRG GmbH

  • Strategic realignment of the ERP software suite MICOS.konzept
  • Introduction of portfolio management
  • Structural development of the division
  • Leading a five-person team
  • Training product managers
  • Managing product life cycles and portfolio development
  • Business model development for spin-off
Oct 2011 - Present
14 years 4 months

Lecturer

Leibniz FH School of Business

  • Process and system modeling
  • EPC (Event-driven Process Chain)
  • BPMN 2.0
  • ARIS Express
Apr 2010 - Dec 2013
3 years 9 months

Product Manager for BEVIA.betreuung industry software

VRG GmbH

  • Redevelopment of the industry product into the top-selling product
  • Implementation of upgrade strategy and pilot partner support
  • Requirements management
  • Business process analysis
  • Proposal structure and market readiness analysis
  • Business plan
  • Stakeholder management of pilot customers
May 2006 - Mar 2010
3 years 11 months

Project lead and internal product manager for software implementation

SOS-Kinderdorf e.V.

  • Inventory assessment at all (46) locations
  • Process analysis
  • Functional design
  • Involving relevant departments
  • Vendor selection
  • Requirements management
  • Project planning and controlling
  • Change management
  • Service level and configuration management according to ITIL
  • Operational concept and documentation
  • Rollout planning
  • Staff training and stakeholder management
Oct 2000 - Feb 2003
2 years 5 months

Technical project lead (PO) for building the press portal

Verlag Dieter Zimpel - Part of Bertelsmann Springer

  • Coordinating and supervising internal and external IT service providers
  • Specifications and requirements management
  • Technical product consulting

Summary

As an experienced Senior Product Management Consultant with over 20 years of expertise, I help companies build a powerful, market-driven product management function. My focus is on profitable software products, clear structures, and resilient business models. When product ideas fail or portfolios need to be reorganized, I create the structure needed for sustainable market success. I specialize in turning around failed IT projects and establishing product management as a C-level discipline in mid-sized companies.

Skills

  • Go To Market Strategy

  • Stakeholder Management

  • Business Case Development

  • Gdpr

  • Scrum

  • Cyber Resilience Act (Cra)

  • Kanban

  • Kotter's 8-step Model

  • Devops

  • Scarf Model

  • Design Thinking

  • Bpmn 2.0

  • End-to-end Requirements Management (E2e)

  • Eepk

  • It/software Development (15 Y)

  • Debt Collection / Legal And Financial Services (3 Y)

  • Real Estate Management (3 Y)

  • Publishing And Media (5 Y)

  • Social Services (6 Y)

  • Elder Care (2 Y)

  • Energy / Smart Meter (2 Y)

  • Transport (1y)

Languages

German
Native
English
Intermediate

Education

Oct 1996 - Jun 2000
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Diploma in social pedagogy · Social work; philosophy, sociology and political science · Kassel, Germany

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