Mehmet Yigitbay
IT Agile Senior Project Manager
Experience
Team Coach, PMO
EWE AG
Migration and optimization of business processes in SAP IS-U to S/4H Utilities (Cloud) transformation project
- Coaching and Scrum Master activities for agile teams
- Setting up and maintaining Confluence and Jira
- Initial setup and implementation of Jira BigPicture
- Preparation, execution and follow-up of SAFe PI-Planning Sessions, Inspect & Adapt Sessions, System Demos, PI Retrospectives
- Planning and execution of agile events/ceremonies
- Support of project management in project controlling
- Implementation of continuous improvement measures and ensuring project quality
Supervised teams included:
- Data models (measurement concepts)
- Data cleansing (data quality)
- Migration
- Cut-over management
- Open processes (BPEM)
Technologies used: Jira BigPicture, Structure, Atlassian Jira/Confluence, MS Office, MS Teams, MS SharePoint, Miro
Agile Coach, Scrum Master
Miele & Cie KG
Development of a new software development platform for Smart Home division used for future products and projects
- Coaching and support of Miele platform UI/UX team as Scrum Master
- Coaching and support of platform as Agile Coach
- Member of Change Management Leadership (CML) team as staff function of Smart Home management for driving agile transformation
- Building and maintaining Confluence and Jira
- Planning and execution of agile events/ceremonies
- Implementation of continuous improvement measures and ensuring project quality
Team size: International cross-functional team with 16 project members within a scaled environment with 7 agile teams on product platform and multiple teams in Product Units
Additional activities within Miele CML:
- Preparation, execution and follow-up of workshops with direct reports of management including coaching for agile transformation
- Active participation in Communities of Practice (CoPs):
- Agile Planning & Controlling
- Requirements Change Management
Technologies used: Jira Portfolio (AdvancedRoadmaps), Atlassian Jira/Confluence/Release, MS Office, MS Teams, MS SharePoint, Miro
Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner
Miele & Cie KG
Development of a software development platform for Smart Home products
- Coaching agile teams
- Setting up and maintaining Confluence and Jira
- Gathering customer requirements and preparing requirements with Product Management Team
- Initial creation of requirements in Jira
- Elaboration of requirements at program level considering cross-team dependencies
- Conducting backlog refinement sessions at team level
- Planning and execution of agile events/ceremonies
- Implementation of continuous improvement measures and ensuring project quality
- Analysis of customer requirements from Product Units and analysis of development and interface processes between Product Units and Development Units
Team size: International cross-functional team with 16 project members within scaled environment with 7 agile teams and multiple business unit teams
Additional activities within Miele ACE:
- Advisory support for continuous improvement of agile transformation
- ACE team member
- Active participation in Communities of Practice (CoPs):
- Agile Planning & Controlling
- Requirements Change Management
Technologies used: Jira Portfolio (AdvancedRoadmaps), Atlassian Jira/Confluence/Release, MS Office, MS Teams, MS SharePoint, Miro
Release Train Engineer, Digital Transformation, Agile Trainer, Project Manager
Schwarz Gruppe
Digitalization project - Building an infrastructure platform (PaaS) and providing cloud services for products/applications within Schwarz Group
- Management consulting in agile and lean approaches
- Project management at domain level
- Coaching agile teams
- Preparation of status reports for various committees
- People management
- Conducting assessments
- Partner management
- Definition and creation of quality standards
- Building and maintaining Confluence and Jira
- Planning and execution of agile events/ceremonies as Release Train Engineer
- Implementation of continuous improvement measures
Team size: Management team with 5 members, 3 product teams with ~10 members from different European countries
Budget: > 8.0 MEUR
Technologies used:
- Collaboration: Jira Portfolio (AdvancedRoadmaps), Atlassian Jira & Confluence, MS Office, MS Teams, MS SharePoint
- Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), MS Azure, StackIT
Additional activities at Schwarz IT:
- Lean-Agile trainer for agile transformation
- Development of agile and hybrid project management guidelines
- Member of SIT Agile Chapter Community
Kanban Trainer
Mercedes Benz Turkey
Preparation, execution and follow-up of Kanban training for SDC team in Istanbul
- Definition of Jira workflow process
- Design of Product Backlog Items
- Design of Kanban board including physical implementation
- Definition and creation of quality standards
Team size: 1 Kanban team with 10+ members
Technologies used: Atlassian Jira, physical Kanban board
Managing Consultant, Agile Project Manager, Proxy Product Owner, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Kanban Trainer
optica direkt
Development of healthcare industry software solution with internal and three nearshore agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, Nexus)
- Management consulting in agile and lean approaches
- Coaching Scrum teams
- Consulting requirements engineering teams
- Organizational setup of nearshore team including onboarding process
- Coordination between client internal Scrum team and nearshore Scrum teams
- Interim Scrum Master for client internal team
- Conducting Scrum training
- Definition and creation of quality standards
- Initial setup of Confluence
- Definition of Jira workflow process
- Configuration of Jira Scrum boards
- Planning and execution of Scrum events/ceremonies
- Creation of agile reports and EVA reports
- Implementation of continuous improvement measures
Team size: 1 local Scrum team with 10 members, 2 nearshore Scrum teams with 14 members (Istanbul and Sofia), 1 mobile Scrum team with 3 members
Budget: > 3.0 MEUR
Technologies used:
- Frontend: Angular 8, TypeScript
- Backend: Java 8, Spring Boot 2, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Spring Security, JWT, Keycloak, Git, PostgreSQL, Azure Cloud, Swagger, JUnit, Mockito, Gradle
- IDE: IntelliJ IDEA
- Collaboration: Atlassian Jira & Confluence, MS Office, MS Teams, MS SharePoint
Senior Consultant, Agile Coach
adesso Schweiz AG
Building the Agile Service "Scrum meets Kanban" for adesso customers
- Conceptualization of customer workshops
- Creation of agenda/program schedule
- Creation of landing page
- Creation of Kanban service patterns
Interim Scrum Master, Sparring Partner
SBB AG
Further development of "SBB mobile" app
- Analysis of fits & gaps
- Coaching project team in agile and lean principles and practices
- Support and guidance for Scrum Master and Product Owner
- Support Product Owner in creating product roadmap (Story Map)
- Preparation, execution and follow-up of Scrum events
- Creation of Scrum artifacts in Confluence
Technologies used: Jira, Confluence, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio
Agile Coach, Agile Transformation, Sparring Partner, Management Consultant
Aviva Group
Modernization of legacy IT architecture to new service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Defining agile transformation approaches and coaching management and project team
- Introduction and implementation of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Nexus)
- Planning and conducting agile readiness workshops
- Support for Scrum Master and Product Owner
- Coaching Product Owner in creating product vision and story map
- Implementation of Kanban system into existing Scrum project
- Creation of training materials for Nexus scaled Scrum
Team size: Two Scrum teams with 9 members via Nexus Budget: > 1.0 MCHF
Technologies used: Jira, Confluence, Maven, Bamboo, SonarQube, Git, Nexus, MS tools
Project Manager, Quality Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach
Swiss Global Enterprise
Replacement of existing CRM system and implementation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM including integration with multiple systems
- Project management and development team leadership
- Crisis management and project recovery
- Introduction of Scrum and Kanban
- Management of development work in TFS
- Introduction of Jira
- Restructuring project team site on SharePoint
- Quality assurance
- Documentation and specifications
- Test concept creation
Team size: One Scrum team with 6 members Budget: > 2.0 MCHF
Technologies used: MS Dynamics CRM, Team Foundation Server, Jira, Visual Studio, SharePoint 2013, MS Office suite
Project Manager, Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer
SBB AG
Management of WTO tender project for transferring existing network services to XaaS solution
- Overall project management including SMEs
- Leading tender process
- Planning, controlling and monitoring
- Reporting to committees
- Vendor management
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- Preparation of tender documents
- Project documentation
- Setting up project team room
Team size: 5 project members
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, SAP PS (Navigator), HP ALM, MS SharePoint
Project Manager
SBB AG
Platform migration project - Rundown of IBM AIX platform, setup of Oracle Shared Platform (ExaData) and migration of ~75 business applications
- Overall project management including SMEs
- Planning and monitoring migrations
- Reporting to committees
- Provider management
- Process modeling and documentation
- Project documentation
Team size: 8 project members
Technologies used: MS Office suite, SAP PS, IBM AIX, Oracle ExaData v12.1, SharePoint
Project Manager, Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer, Testing
SBB AG
Procurement and corporate rollout of Managed Print Services via WTO tender
- Overall project management
- Stakeholder and vendor management
- Procurement management
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- Tender document preparation
- Offer evaluation
- Printer firmware testing
- Usability testing
- Project room setup
Team size: 8 core team members, 10 delivery team members, 4 provider team members Budget: 21 MCHF
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Project, SAP PS, HP ALM, SharePoint
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
SBB AG
Functional extension of Remote Access Service based on Juniper Junos Pulse technology
- Subproject management
- Workshop organization
- Stakeholder and provider management
- Pilot phase management
- Rollout planning and execution
Team size: 4 project members Budget: > 1.0 MCHF
Technologies used: Juniper Junos Pulse, MS Office suite, SAP PS
Project Manager, Scrum Master
Eidgenössisches Departement für auswärtige Angelegenheiten EDA
Development of mobile app for iOS and Android platforms for EDA citizen service
- Project management of distributed team (Slovakia, Philippines, Switzerland)
- Stakeholder management
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- Support for user story creation
- Mockup design
Technologies used: MS Office suite, SharePoint, Balsamiq, TestFlight
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft BLW
Subproject management for WTO tender in agriculture sector for IT solution for managing and coordinating farm controls
- Project team leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- HERMES project documentation
- WTO tender document quality assurance
Team size: 5 project members Budget: > 750 KCHF
Technologies used: MS Office suite, DecisionAdvisor
Senior Consultant
ERNI Consulting AG
Support of Project Management service in creating process instructions and checklists
- Creation of process instructions
- Creation and updating of PM templates and checklists
Technologies used: MS Office
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Widerker Verwaltungsholding GmbH
Implementation of OS|ECM standard software for real estate object management and invoice workflow
- Project management and team leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- Migration concept support
- Application parameterization
- Test concept creation
- Documentation
Team size: 4 project members
Technologies used: MS Office suite, LaTeX, Oracle, OS|ECM tools
Management Consultant, Coach, Quality Manager
Optimal Systems
Setup and management of PMO for ensuring quality in customer project execution
- Analysis of existing methods and tools
- Analysis of existing templates and documentation
- Fits & gaps analysis
- Creation of PM templates
- Creation of process instructions
- Employee training
- PMO management
Technologies used: MS Office, MS Visio, LaTeX, OS|ECM
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Deutsche Telekom AG
Implementation of OS|ECM and development of electronic PIN management system
- Project management
- Requirements gathering
- Application usability design
- Migration concept and data migration
- Application parameterization
- Test concept creation
- Documentation
Team size: 5 project members
Technologies used: MS Office suite, LaTeX, Oracle, OS|ECM tools
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Bundesamt für Kommunikation BAKOM
Data migration and release update of OS|ECM system
- Project management
- Requirements gathering
- Application parameterization
- Migration concept support
- Test concept creation
- Documentation
Team size: 5 project members
Technologies used: MS Office suite, LaTeX, Oracle, OS|ECM tools
Project Manager, Senior Consultant
Swiss UAV AG
Implementation of OS|ECM for managing CAD drawings and general company documents
- Project management
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- Application parameterization
- Test concept creation
- Documentation
Team size: 3 project members
Technologies used: MS Office suite, LaTeX, MS SQL Server, OS|ECM tools
Consultant
EnBW AG
Support of European-wide tender for corporate ECM/DMS system rollout
- PMO activities
- Requirements analysis and documentation
- RFI, RFP and PoC support
- PoC phase organization and moderation
- Use case and test case creation
- Vendor evaluation
Technologies used: MS Office suite, company-specific applications
Test Engineer, Tester
Janitos Versicherungs AG
Support of release management in test case creation and execution
- Test script development based on process descriptions and system requirements
- Release planning support
- Release coordination and implementation
- Test case execution
- Business analysis
- Defect resolution and documentation
Technologies used: MS Office
Summary
Languages
Education
Hochschule Karlsruhe Technik und Wirtschaft
Diplomwirtschaftsinformatiker (Fachhochschule) · Wirtschaftsinformatik · Karlsruhe, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Hermes Advanced
TÜV Süd Akademie GmbH
Safe 6.0 Expert Upgrade Achievement
Certified Agile Senior Leader
VZPM
Professional Scrum Product Owner I
Scrum.org
Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering Re@Agile Primer
SAQ Swiss Association for Quality
Professional Scrum Master I
Scrum.org
Hermes Projektführungsmethode
SAQ Swiss Association for Quality
Certified Safe 4 Agilist
Certified Safe 5 Program Consultant
Kanban Management Professional
Lean Kanban University
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