Rainer Henrichs

Agile Transition Consultant

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
1 year 6 months

Agile Transition Consultant

BASF Digital Solutions GmbH

  • Design and support of the agile transformation of the HR Solutions area
  • Defining goals and priorities together with the product managers
  • Coaching product managers & department heads
  • Supporting teams in the first use of Kanban
  • Partner of alight.com
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
2 years 2 months
Berlin, Germany

Agile Project Manager

Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG)

  • Management of the development and rollout of ServiceNow HR
  • Setting up a Scrum project with daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives
  • Leading the external ServiceNow implementation team
  • Introducing agile metrics and KPIs
  • Partner of HRpepper Management Consultants
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
9 months
Berlin, Germany

Agile Coach & Management Advisor

Osram Innovation Hub GmbH

  • Coaching of four IoT development teams
  • Fostering innovation by creating the right cultural and process conditions
  • Forming or restructuring cross-functional teams, including DevOps and QA
May 2018 - Mar 2019
11 months
Berlin, Germany

Agile Leader & Interim Manager DevOps Germany

Takeaway.com (Lieferando)

  • Building new Scrum engineering teams
  • Servant leader & coach for growing technical capacity
  • Coaching Scrum Masters, Product Owners, managers, and developers in scaled agile practices and communication
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
5 months
Berlin, Germany

Product Owner Data Warehouse

GVL – Ges. zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten mbH

  • Product Owner for the central data warehouse & reporting solution
  • Communicating the product vision and creating the roadmap
  • Writing and prioritizing product backlog items
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
8 months
Berlin, Germany

Interim Manager Development & IT Operations

Sparkassen-Finanzportal GmbH

  • People responsibility for 17 employees
  • Introducing an agile approach to product development
  • Launching new IT projects, budget control and approval
May 2016 - Nov 2016
7 months
Berlin, Germany

IT Project Manager

HELLA Aglaia Mobile Vision GmbH

  • Introducing lean IT operational processes for the development of visual driver assistance systems
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
3 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Scrum Master & Agile Transition Consultant

E.On Business Services

  • Coaching and training distributed development teams in their first use of the Scrum framework
Dec 2014 - May 2015
6 months
Berlin, Germany

IT Project Manager

KPMG Deutschland

Sep 2012 - Nov 2014
2 years 3 months
Berlin, Germany

Product Owner & Product Release Manager

Axel Springer SE

Jan 2007 - Dec 2011
5 years

Manager “Project Board” (Strategic Project Management)

Vattenfall Europe Information Services GmbH

Jan 2004 - Dec 2008
3 years

Supervisor Projects

Philip Morris International

Jan 1999 - Dec 2004
5 years

Software Engineer & IT Consultant

FJA Feilmeier & Junker GmbH, ICO Management Beratung GmbH

Summary

I offer high-quality services in agility, information technology, project management, and modern leadership.

Through ongoing training and partnerships with leading consulting firms, I continuously expand my methodological expertise and can achieve top results together with my clients.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 2000 - Jun 2000

San Diego State University

Master of Science · Computer Science · United States

Oct 1997 - Jun 1997

Fachhochschule Lüneburg

Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker · Business Informatics · Germany

Certifications & licenses

Professional Agile Leadership (Scrum.org PAL I)

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Product Owner (Scrum.org PSPO I)

Scrum.org

Scaled Professional Scrum (Scrum.org SPS)

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master (Scrum.org PSM I & PSM II)

Scrum.org

ITIL V3 Foundation

TÜV Süd

Certified Senior Project Manager (GPM / IPMA)

GPM / IPMA