Sascha (M.a.) Jürgens
Agile Coach & Partner
Experience
Agile Coach & Partner
Agisolve GmbH – Pragmatic Agility® | Edler & Stiegler GmbH | CTN Consulting
- Create a product and service portfolio delivering a 360 degree approach to digital corporate sustainability covering KPI management, CSRD reporting and sustainable strategy
- Create vision and business case
- Onboard and align business partners, negotiate contracts
- Set up partner network as self-organized agile team
- Co-develop product and service portfolio
- Coordinate sales and marketing, go-to-market strategy and roadmap
Agile Coach & Consultant (Data strategy and KPIs)
The Marcom Engine GmbH & Co. KG (Serviceplan Group)
- Create strategy and roadmap for a KPI framework to measure and continuously improve campaign delivery performance and outcomes for TME DC-DC with ~400 internationally distributed employees across 15 workstreams serving 120+ markets
- Gather KPIs, metrics, reports and dashboards using quantitative & qualitative data, interviews, technical deep-dives, process and data mining
- Evaluate and analyze 900+ KPIs and metrics, 20+ reports and dashboards
- Generate insights on processes, communication, organizational maturity, synergies and improvements
- Create target vision and roadmap to future data management & reporting strategy in collaboration with DC-DC Directors
- Present evaluation results and proposal to CEO, COO, CTO, achieving approval for framework implementation
- Align KPI framework vision and roadmap with ongoing org-transformation initiative
- Introduce data-driven agility concepts: KPI classification taxonomy, value stream-aligned KPI mapping, visualization along organizational value flow, connection with OKRs, alignment with data analytics processes
- Support and co-facilitate OKR cycle introduction
- Create exemplary KPI dashboards and reports using MS PowerBI, Tableau, Excel
Agile Coach
Truma Gerätetechnik GmbH; Alde International Systems AB
- Agile & digital transformation of Truma and Alde R&D and S&S (120 FTE) to cross-functional, lean & agile organization
- Analyze current org structures, processes, tools, management, communication and methods
- Develop scenarios for future Truma-Alde Framework via workshop series with core team of directors, PMO, leadership and engineers
- Present aligned approach and roadmap, secure approval by general management
- Create ecosystem-centric process organization using SAFe, Kanban Flight Levels, Team Topologies
- Detail organizational and process template from strategy to team level with exercises and simulations
- Hand over final TAF framework MVP for go-live and continuous adaptation
- Integrate PEP-Up project: streamline product development process and lifecycle with iterative lean-agile methodologies
- Lead TAF core and heart core teams, facilitate workshops, build community of practice
- Support project and product teams with planning events, reviews and retrospectives
Senior Scrum Master | Agile Consultant
Seven.One Media; Seven.One Entertainment Group (ProSiebenSat.1 SE)
- Maintain and develop central ad-tech platform ensuring 100% availability, performance, stability and extensibility
- Work with data analytics and support teams for real-time monitoring, reporting and zero-downtime recovery
- Implement AdTech strategy focusing on standardization, data-centricity, automation and AI/ML innovation
- Collaborate with streams to prioritize business requirements and continuously deliver improvements and features
- Introduce WSJF based lean prioritization to increase value delivery effectiveness
- Support AdTech Program Management and PMO through Fusion.One program
- Deliver ONE.Product to standardize publisher integrations, reducing integration time from weeks to 1 day
- Deliver The Guardian enabling GDPR compliant targeting with 3M+ EUR ARR
- Deliver The Shield invalid traffic filter, reducing reputational risk
- Coordinate development pool with two agile sub-teams, take on interim PO and SM roles
- Enable ad-server migration from Adition to Google Ad Manager
Senior Scrum Master | Agile Master | SAFe RTE
Vorwerk Elektrowerke GmbH & Co. KG; Neato Robotics, Inc.; Nexaro GmbH
- Develop, launch and hypercare award-winning cleaning robotics platforms and devices (software and hardware) for Vorwerk, Neato Robotics and Nexaro, achieving 7% revenue increase and improved speed and cost efficiency
- Set up global Digital R&D and delivery organization for Neato Dx, Prime robots, Vorwerk VR7 and Nexaro robots and platforms
- Design and orchestrate scaled agile setup connecting 250 FTE across 15 parallel teams covering product/program management, UX, embedded SW, cloud, middleware, mobile apps, IT tools
- Introduce and facilitate agile processes, policies, tools across the development organization; lead coach for 10 Agile Masters
- Organize big room planning and international co-location events
- Coordinate dissolution and integration of Neato R&D into Vorwerk, resulting in 40% R&D cost savings
- Support build-up of local app development in Milan, Italy
- Coach engineering managers, technical leads, product management, product owners, team leads
- Insource mobile app development reducing FTEs and HR cost by 60%
- Restructure hardware development for Nexaro NR 1500 using Scrumban, improving speed by 30%, integration by 100%, problem detection by 50%
- Outsource maintenance of legacy robots to cross-functional support teams
- Enable self-managing offshore team, freeing 10 internal FTE
- Support agile development teams ad-hoc with process ramp-up, role coaching and toolchain adoption
- Support company-wide agile transformation in collaboration with Thermomix category
OKR Coach
FeetMe SAS
- Introduce OKR methodology, processes and tools to enable enterprise scaling and secure 5M+ EUR in grants and series B funding
- Work with C-Suite, top management and teams to create alignment and focus using OKRs
- Coach and facilitate 4 quarterly and 1 annual OKR cycle to stabilize org, transition to scale-up, balance strategic objectives and KPIs, support international scaling to 202 sites and growth to 60+ employees
- Train, coach and consult organization on OKR, agile methodologies and tools (JIRA/Upraise, Confluence, Miro, Google Cloud)
Agile Coach & Trainer
ALPHA BANK Albania
- Transform IT organization (40 FTE) increasing customer centricity and business agility to enable carve-out and sale, raising market value to 55M EUR
- Collaborate with leadership, CIO, IT directors and business representatives to create target vision including KPIs and OKRs
- Introduce agile and hybrid methodologies with PMO and project managers
- Train and certify organization in Pragmatic Agility, Agile Leadership and SAFe
- Support PMO and leadership in setting up digital and agile processes, policies and tools
- Provide change management and hands-on coaching for team and leadership
Interim Product Owner
KRATZER AUTOMATION AG
- Develop, maintain and innovate test management solutions for ICE and electric motors, e-car batteries (testXplorer, PAtools)
- Collaborate with customers, tech, business development, UX and other stakeholders to align product vision and roadmap
- Manage, refine and prioritize product backlog
- Work with three development teams and POs to specify and develop features, enablers and improvements
- Coordinate prioritization and refinement of team backlogs
- Support org transformation and collaboration of cross-functional agile teams
- Share agile and hybrid practices with PMO and co-develop community of practice
Agile Coach
Seven.One Media GmbH (ProSiebenSat.1 SE)
- Lead transition from matrix to squad-based organization following Spotify Model to standardize and scale ad-tech platform
- Analyze product, technical platform, process maturity, pains and potentials
- Develop target model for structure, processes, roles, policies and governance
- Implement new processes, cross-functional team structures and methods (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban)
- Train, coach and consult leadership and teams
Agile Coach; SAFe SPC
Siemens Healthineers AG
- Restructure and optimize ultrasound software R&D organization (350 FTE) in USA, Europe and Asia using SAFe
- Lead team of 3 senior change managers in early transformation stages
- Collaborate with Senior VP of Engineering, Global HR and Org-Development to align strategy
- Prepare and facilitate leadership workshops onsite in Issaquah, WA
- Introduce SAFe practices tailored to FDA compliance and V-Model requirements
- Document and present project results; hand over to internal transformation team
Project Manager – Customer Service Automation
UniCredit Group / UCS & UCDS; Bank Austria
- Develop AI-driven platform to automate customer support, reducing cost, increasing availability and service quality
- Collaborate with business project lead and Austrian Institute of Technology on pre-development
- Manage sub-projects, conduct pre-study, tender and RFQ, deep dives into conversational AI, ML and language models
- Conduct technology and supplier evaluations, workshops in Vienna
- Lead PoC development of AI chatbot based on Genesys CCaaS
- Procure and coordinate resources and external partners
Organizational Consultant – International Collaboration Framework and Toolchain
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH / Product Category Beverage
- Introduce organizational model for fully automatic coffee machines enabling cross-location collaboration with Lean & Agile principles
- Design org and collaboration model for integrating three sub-organizations (200 FTE)
- Conduct status quo evaluation of ways of working
- Introduce Kanban flow system with cycles, events and cadence at three flight levels
- Develop adaptive capacity and resource planning, multi-project, program and portfolio management processes and policies
- Design, introduce, train and coach toolchain using JIRA, Confluence, BigPicture and BigGANTT
- Roll out blended learning and coaching system with screencasts and recordings
- Adapt PEP and PLM for lean-agile development using Siemens Teamcenter
- Support design of agile working spaces
Senior Agile Master | Scrum Master
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH / Product Category Homecare
- Develop home cleaning devices in short cycles with high quality
- Transform matrix organization into agile structure of 10 teams (120 FTE)
- Define vision, org-structure, process landscape and roadmap with senior management
- Set up organizational templates, scaling and collaboration framework
- Coach teams on processes, team building and function integration
- Facilitate design thinking sprints, retrospectives, planning and review events
- Coach Agile Coaches, TPOs and Scrum Masters
- Provide shadow coaching and mentoring for new Agile Masters
- Co-organize and facilitate agile community of practice
- Support prioritization of innovation initiatives and alignment with product roadmaps
Agile Coach
BMW AG
- Transform BMW IT from matrix/waterfall to product-centric agile organization
- Deliver 20+ team transformation packages in QA, sales, finance, master data, embedded software, web, ecommerce and connected car services
- Coach and train 200+ employees in Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, SAFe and LeSS
- Establish Connected Car SAFe Large Solution with 4 release trains as lead coach, SPC and interim RTE
- Coach role transitions for middle managers
- Co-organize and facilitate agile community of practice
- Coordinate up to 50 external Agile Coaches and develop transformation content
Agile Transformation Leader, Scrum Master
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH / Product Category Beverage
- Increase delivery speed and quality for fully automated coffee machines (Siemens EQ.Series)
- Introduce Scrum and Kanban for 140 engineers across mechanical, electrical, design, QA and manufacturing
- Kickstart six agile teams as servant leader and coach
- Establish coordination using Kanban Flight Levels and Lean Shopfloor practices
- Define Agile PEP policies and integrate agile approach into PMO
- Provide lean-agile trainings and workshops
- Coach leadership, POs and Agile Masters
Agile Project Manager & Scrum Master
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH (Corporate Innovation); Robert Bosch GmbH (Corporate Research)
- Introduce lean-agile methodology for innovation projects integrating push innovation with product development
- Lead 4 technology clusters (120 FTE) in Sensor Tech, Interaction & Embedded, Advanced Robotics, Cognitive Systems
- Coordinate global innovation programs and customize agile scaling templates based on SAFe, Scrum of Scrums and Scrum at Scale
- Coach cluster leads and facilitate lean-agile mode for global strategic project Cero-2 (50 FTE)
- Implement agile toolchain and KPIs for performance measurement
- Facilitate leadership and cluster team workshops on change, collaboration, process improvement, ideation and design thinking
Trainer and Facilitator
Various Clients & Industries
- Inspire and develop competencies in leadership, lean-agile methodologies and pragmatic delivery
- Deliver trainings: Project Management Basics, Pragmatic Agile Leadership, Professional Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Product Owner, Leading SAFe, SAFe PO/PM, SAFe Lean Portfolio Management, SAFe for Teams
- Facilitate workshops: vision and mission, retrospectives, mediation, design thinking, product and service design
- Host meetups: Piazza: Where Strategy meets Agility
Program Manager Digital Innovation
UniCredit Group / UniCredit Services (UCS)
- Lead digital transformation initiatives in Commercial Banking focusing on real estate, smart working, employee engagement and sustainability
- Direct Smart Working and Digital Real Estate Program in HQ and branches
- Deliver City Hub: platform combining backend, mobile apps, IoT and digital workspaces reducing expenses and CO2
- Deliver real-time occupancy monitoring saving 20% AC/heating energy
- Introduce Axway API management and gateway for OpenAPI-compliant access to banking systems
- Deliver cross-platform employee app prototype using Apache Cordova
- Manage development and maintenance of digital signage and room booking solutions
Head of Development (e-Business)
BayWa AG; Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG
- Ensure development and evolution of e-Business and digital commerce applications
- Lead BayWa eCommerce project in three phases: B2C Energy Shop, B2C Overall Shop, B2B Omnichannel on SAP Commerce
- Insource RWA retail platform and manage its maintenance
- Deliver TecParts 2.0 and B2B order platforms (CLOP, TOPP)
- Lead team of 20 (internal and external developers) with full budget responsibility
- Coordinate suppliers, manage procurements, tenders and contracts
- Standardize release management, coding and architecture guidelines
- Introduce Scrum, Kanban, XP, DevOps, CI/CD and toolchains (Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Omnitracker)
- Support corporate mobile application strategy
Software Engineer, IT Consultant & Project Manager
PTA GmbH
- Design and develop enterprise applications using OOP, XP techniques and data management
- Lead redesign of automated data import from SAP R/3 to external systems, increasing speed by 1000% and reducing support by 90%
- Provide 1st/2nd level support for .NET, Java, Python and PHP applications
- Co-develop AI-enabled training application in Java SE
- Develop Silverlight prototype for eye accommodation training
- Improve coding quality via guidelines, CI, static analysis and quality practices
- Consult on full-stack development, software architecture and project management
Research Assistant & University Lecturer (Philosophy)
ETH Zurich; University of Zurich; LMU Munich; University of Bamberg; University of Würzburg
- Conduct independent research and publications in skepticism, epistemology, logic, German Idealism and pragmatism
- Deliver lectures, seminars and research papers
- Mentor and tutor students
- Build Center for History of Knowledge at ETH Zurich
- Teach philosophy classes at University of Munich and University of Bamberg as PhD student and lecturer
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Professional Services (11.5 years), Information Technology (11.5 years), Education (8 years), Manufacturing (5 years), Banking and Finance (3.5 years), and Agriculture (3.5 years).
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Experienced in Product Development (17 years), Project Management (17 years), Information Technology (14.5 years), Research and Development (10 years), Strategy (9 years), and Quality Assurance (2.5 years).
Summary
Agility needs pragmatism.
Agile enthusiast with 15+ years of experience supporting organizations on their way towards business agility. Expert for lean and agile methodologies, tools and practices at scale. Track record of successful agile transformations in a wide range of scenarios from hardware engineering to technology innovation, software and IT. Pragmatic Agilist with focus on outcomes, context awareness, openness to different approaches and creativity.
Skills
Leading Complex And Strategic Agile Transformations And Change Initiatives Cross-industries.
Helping Organizations Getting Things Done With Continuously Evolving Processes, Tools And Techniques.
Coaching, Teaching, Facilitating To Build Competencies With A “Learning By Doing” Approach.
Organization-wide Agile Methodologies, Tools, Practices From First Principles To Hands-on Doing.
Expert In Project And Program Management (Classical, Hybrid & Agile).
High Organizational Skills, Multi-project Management, Design And Implementation Of Enterprise-wide Processes And Policies.
Analytical Approach Combined With Pragmatism And Adaptability.
Strong Leadership Skills, Leading By Example With Commitment And Integrity. Leading And Inspiring High Performing Teams.
Strong Interpersonal, Communication And Presentation Skills On Management / C-suite Level.
Competency In Coaching, Mentoring, Facilitation On Individual, Team And Organization Level.
Tech Savvy. Background In Software Engineering And Data.
Methodologies And Standards:
- Object-oriented Analysis, Design, And Programming (Ooad, Oop), Uml, Design Patterns, Layered Architectures, Distributed Architectures, Soa, Continuous Integration, Build And Deployment Automation, Test Automation, Unit Testing, Tdd, Gui Testing, End-to-end Testing, Load And Performance Testing, Performance Analysis, Continuous Delivery, Xp, Coding Guidelines And Static Analysis, Clean Code, Application Security, Build And Release Management, Alm, Agile Methodologies Such As Scrum, Kanban, Design Thinking, Business Process Analysis, Bpmn 2.0 Fundamentals, Classical And Agile Requirements Engineering.
Programming Languages:
- Java Se, Java Ee, C#.net From Version 2.0, Vb.net, T-sql, Oracle Sql, Pl/sql, Javascript, Html/css, Xaml, Xml, Xslt, Basics Of Assembler, C, Vba, Linux Scripting, Python.
Frameworks / Technologies:
- .Net Framework, Ms Azure, Spring Framework, Spring Mvc, Jsp, Hibernate, Nhibernate, Ibatis, Solr/lucene, Basics Of Jsf, Angularjs, Gwt, Linq, Silverlight, Soap, Rest, Odata, Web Services, Http, Tcp/ip, Rfc, Idocs, Sap Ui5.
Development Tools:
- Eclipse, Netbeans, Ms Team Foundation Server, Azure Devops, Ms Build, Ms Test, Ms Powershell, Ms Visual Studio, Vs Code, Ms Sql Server Tools And Sql Management Studio, Ms Ssis, Hudson/jenkins, Sonar, Ant, Junit, Selenium, Checkstyle, Pmd, Findbugs, Cobertura, Subversion/svn, Mercurial, Hgflow, Appdynamics, Splunk, Jmeter, Enterprise Architect, Standard Ms Office Tools Including Visio, Powerpoint, Ms Project, Confluence, Jira (Introduction, Customization, Workflow Design, Migration And Integration Of Third-party Systems), Jira Agile, Zephyr, Stash, Omnitracker, Scarab, Bugzilla, Ms Sharepoint From Version 2007 To Now, Mindjet Mind Manager, Vi, Notepad++, Filezilla, Sap Gui, Basics Of Sap Abap Workbench, Oracle Sql Developer, Hp Quality Center, Hp Project And Portfolio Management (Ppm), Github, Axway Policy Studio, Axway Api Manager, Axway Api Gateway Manager, Swagger Ui, Hp Mobile Center, Miro.
Products:
- Sap Hybris Ecommerce Platform 4.x To 5.3 With Various Extensions, Cockpits, Modules, Hybris Accelerator, Fredhopper, Payone, Uniserv, Google Analytics (Customization, Implementation), Econda, Ekomi, Etracker, Interface Design And Connections, Sap Erp, Sap Connector, Stibo Step Pim, Hybris Pcm, Axway Api Gateway, Ibm Worklight, Ibm Mobilefirst, Xamarin, Apache Cordova, Ca Layer 7, Business Intelligence & Data Analytics: Ms Powerbi, Power Tools, Tableau.
Operating Systems/hardware:
- Windows (From Ms Dos Times To 8.x), Macos From Version 8.x, Linux (Suse, Debian, Mint, Ubuntu), Ios, Windows Phone From 7.0, Android From 3.x, Ms Dos, Pc Dos, Ibm Os/2, Windows Server, Iis, Basics Of Unix, Raspbmc, Arduino.
Languages
Education
PhD & post-graduate studies · Philosophy
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
M.A., Philosophy · Philosophy · Munich, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP®-SM)
Scrum Alliance
ITIL V3 Foundation
TÜV Süd
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®)
Project Management Institute
Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-I)
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I)
Scrum.org
Project Management Professional (PMP®)
Project Management Institute
SAFe® 6 Agilist (SA)
Scaled Agile Inc.
Scaled Agility SAFe® 6 Practice Consultant (SPC)
Scaled Agile Inc.
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