Matthias Ottowski
Management Consultant, AI Consultant
Experience
Test Manager
Major German Bank
- Test framework concept and test concept
- Resource planning
- Test strategy and test methods setup
- Organizing and running risk management workshops
Methods: ISTQB, DORA, BAIT, ISO 25010 IT environment: JIRA, Confluence, OpenText ALM, MS SharePoint
Training in agile project and process frameworks, digitalization
Training and Development
- Training and certification SAFe Scrum Master (completed)
- Training in Design Thinking (completed)
- Training in TameFlow and Kanban for product processes (completed)
- AI Manager and AI Consultant training (ZFU) (ongoing)
Methods: SAFe, SCRUM, TameFlow, KANBAN, AI, Prompting, AI process automation, AI use case derivation, EU AI Act, DORA IT environment: ChatGPT, Perplexity, N8N, MS Copilot, Gamma, Canva
Project Manager / Senior PMO / Agile Coach
Munich RE, Bavaria
- Advising, training and implementing an agile-hybrid budgeting and control system in coordination with the client
- Project management and program management for 2 parallel projects
- Budget monitoring and forecasting
- Project change management (plan adjustments)
- Program reporting
- Risk management, stakeholder management, communication management
- Supporting change management for ESG business processes
- Project planning/control and transformation management (agile transformation)
- Advising on setting up agile-hybrid project structures
- Leading workshops on project management and agile transformation
- Integrating the CI/CD of the agile setup into release management
- Mapping project structures in PM tool Azure DevOps, MS Project, Excel (VBA)
- Mapping budget monitoring in Excel (data interfaces to MS Project + SAP FI)
- Coaching 2 junior Scrum Masters
- Coaching 2 young project teams (40 and 20 members) in developing the agile mindset
- Project volume 8,418 person-days across both projects
- Support in long-term product and lifecycle management
- Agile business analysis and requirements engineering coaching (Epics, Features, User Stories)
- Developing 3 TOMs (Target Operating Models) in the target organization
- Acting scrum master to achieve agile operational stability
Methods: SCRUM, SAFe, KANBAN, PMI, VAIT, KAIT, DORA IT environment: Azure DevOps, MS Project, Miro, SAP S4/HANA, SAP BW, ALGO One, ACTIVEPIVOT, .net C#, MS SharePoint, Planview, Excel VBA
Summary
PROJECT MANAGER, AGILE COACH
Complexity (projects with up to 9 subprojects)
Managing vendors and teams up to 30 members
International scope
TEST MANAGER, traditional / agile
Complexity (e.g. E2E test design for 29 integrated systems per project)
Managing international vendors and test teams up to 95 members
International scope
PROCESS MANAGER and BUSINESS ANALYST, traditional / agile
AI management, change management, requirements analysis, process design
Identifying process metrics (KPIs)
International scope
Languages
Education
Helaba Frankfurt
In-house bank IT training and business analysis · Informatics, Business Analysis · Frankfurt, Germany
Helaba Frankfurt
Bank clerk · Banking · Frankfurt, Germany
Certifications & licenses
AI Manager, certified by HC Training
Hilker Consulting
Certified SAFe® 6 Scrum Master
Agile Certification Academy
ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level Extension - Agile Tester
iSQI GmbH
ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager
iSQI GmbH
Project Management Professional PMP® / PMI
PMI Prometric Testing Ctr Munich
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
ITIL® Foundation Examination
APMG-International
Certified Project Manager (GPM) IPMA LEVEL C®
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