Management & Sustainability Consultant, Business & Leadership Coach, Trainer

Support Agile Journey of company as a whole. Move from project- to product-organisation. Ramp up 100 Agile Teams working across 13 countries. Initiate "Agile at Scale" with principles and practices from Spotify, SAFe, LeSS Huge, OKRs, Enterprise Kanban etc.

"Reveal the system to itself". Help to create transparency along value streams as well as between levels (portfolio, domain, team).

Move further towards evidence-based management and data-driven decision making. Replacing powerpoint status reports with real time dashboards. "Lifting the carpet". In parallel moving everything IT into the cloud.

Introduce Kanban. Co-create Agile, Scrum and Kanban inhouse trainings and Train-the-Trainer programs.

Collaborate with HR to integrate Agile in existing programs such as Leadership Development. Help to initiate Communities of Practice, mentoring programs and extend offers to apprentices, students and nearby universities.

Support Agile Transformation journeys of large enterprises(DAX30) in various industries(IT, Automotive, Pharma, Finance, Insurance...)

Systemic approach: coach the organisational relationship system as a whole. Team-level to CxOs

Co-create new service offers(workshops, trainings, self-assessments...)

Customer project examples: Establishing and coaching Agile Transition Team and Lean-Agile Center of Excellence, Implementing SAFe with 16 international teams; Kanban System across Program with 300 people in Value Stream...

Consulting, Training and Coaching Services: certification prep trainings for ISTQB, IREB, scrum.org; coaching to support Agile Transformation and product launch of international customer

Mission: Ensure global Service Development&Delivery capability

Co-create environment for 250+ Scrum Teams and 1000 Cosnultants

Align Life Cycle Management across organisational boundaries (non-agile Global Services vs agile Product Generation Lines of Business).

Global Program Manager and Enterprise Coach:

• global teams, 30% external resources, 2 Project Managers
• Project Portfolio Management (Portfolio Kanban similar to SAFe)
• change management: inspect&adapt program backlog to changing targets, priorities, organisational setup, budget, resources, policies, processes and requirements
• prioritize projects (portfolio: >150 Professional Services for >30 most varied products(HighAvailability IT-systems) from 12 product lines (LeSS Huge); P&L for 200 Mio € revenue of that service portfolio.
• achieve cross functional consensus without authority: eg. initiate alignment of customer+service documentation across product lines, drive tools synergies across process boundaries, drive introduction of Business Intelligence and global profitability measurement...
• identify and re-use lessons learned across programs and units

International Line Management:

• 14 direct reports in 8 locations (Europe, APAC incl. India and China)
• team development, promotions, succession planning, cost center controlling
• world class expert team: servant leadership, remove obstacles, grow people

Global Project Management for Learning&Development:

• enable internal(R&D+project teams, Tier 2+3 Support, Solution Architects) and external customers and business partners; ExpertTrainer(worldwide): Competence Transfer from agile R&D to Pilot Projects.
• Gemba Walks along Value Stream of "New Product Introduction"

Subject Matter Expert for "emerging technologies",

• Consulting, Sales support, testbed support; member of several "Extended Product Management Teams"; Scrum Master and Feature Owner; trained by Bas Vodde(LeSS Huge)…

Achievements:

• Program targets (KPIs) met, Line Manager targets (KPIs) met or exceeded
• cross functional improvements initiated, systemic waste reduced

Design, Develop and Deliver applications and learning solutions for ICT customers in a Start-Up company.

Roles: Versatilist, System Architect, Developer(SW, Multimedia, 3D), eLearning Author,Technical Writer, Admin, Project Leader, Trainer & Consultant...