Serhat Küpeli

Scrum Coach

Cologne, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 7 months
Germany

Scrum Coach

Hochschule

  • Support in applying agile principles and practices
  • Training and coaching the Scrum team and leadership regarding agile ways of working and self-organizing
  • Facilitating retrospectives and identifying continuous improvement measures
  • Identifying impediments and coordinating actions to remove them
  • Coordinating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives
  • Assisting in managing project tools (JIRA, Confluence, Concept-Board)
  • Establishing additional Scrum teams and cross-team communication and metrics
Mar 2023 - Sep 2023
7 months
Germany

ITSM Consultant & Scrum Coach

IT-Dienstleister

  • Setting up the Scrum process and a shared understanding of roles in the project
  • Creating a process map to align existing processes with those required by the standard
  • Identifying missing or to-be-optimized process and role descriptions to achieve ISO 20000 certification
  • Implementing the open actions
  • Conducting an internal audit as preparation for certification
  • Facilitating Scrum meetings such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
  • Identifying and removing obstacles that prevent the team from working efficiently
  • Promoting collaboration and communication within the team and with external stakeholders.
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
6 months
Germany

Change Manager

Produzierendes Gewerbe

  • Defining and aligning a change roadmap
  • Establishing a transition board for better management of all change management activities
  • Determining, implementing, and tracking the effectiveness of all change activities carried out
  • Regularly aligning business objectives with the goals and tasks of the transition board
Jan 2020 - Dec 2025
5 years
Germany

Requirements Manager & Technical Solution Management

Behörde

  • Gathering and aligning customer requirements
  • Confirming feasibility and developing implementation options
  • Planning proposals from technical and commercial perspectives
  • Managing process-compliant handovers (waterfall, agile & hybrid)
  • Presenting project results to management
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
3 years
Germany

IT-Service Management Consultant & Agile Coach

IT-Dienstleister

  • Setting up the Scrum process and a shared understanding of roles in the project
  • Creating a process map to align existing processes with the recommended processes from the ITIL framework
  • Gathering requirements and supporting the selection of the new overarching IT service management system for IT
  • Managing the implementation of open actions
  • Facilitating Scrum meetings such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
  • Identifying and removing obstacles that prevent the team from working efficiently
  • Promoting collaboration and communication within the team and with external stakeholders
  • Coaching the customer's IT service management department
  • Coaching project teams and leadership in the context of agile working
May 2019 - Present
6 years 3 months
Cologne, Germany

Managing Director

PCG Pure Consultant GmbH

Mar 2018 - Present
7 years 5 months
Germany

Trainer for SCRUM and Developer of Training Content

Branchenübergreifend

  • Imparting knowledge in SCRUM, requirements engineering, Kanban, DevOps, and agile testing
  • Coaching diverse project teams and stakeholders on agile working methods, SCRUM practices, and establishing a continuous improvement process including follow-up success checks
  • Raising management awareness of cultural change in companies when introducing agile processes
  • Supporting the agile transformation of project structures
  • Developing various training concepts including target group analysis, preparing materials and supporting documents, and creating new exercise formats
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
3 years
Germany

ITSM Consultant & Agile Coach

Produzierendes Gewerbe

  • Conducting ITIL & SCRUM trainings to create a unified project language and understanding
  • Optimizing existing IT processes and introducing incident, problem, change, and requirement management processes as well as request fulfillment; aligning and developing relevant roles and process descriptions
  • Defining and introducing various reports to manage and improve process efficiency for team leads and producing management reports for IT leadership
  • Training the entire IT staff in the ITIL, PRINCE2 & Scrum frameworks
  • Introducing a new trouble ticket system
  • Defining and monitoring SLAs and UCs to improve response and resolution times
  • Providing ongoing coaching to IT staff and management throughout the project lifecycle
  • Managing the implementation of all actions in sprints
  • Facilitating Scrum meetings such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
  • Identifying and removing obstacles that prevent the team from working efficiently
May 2013 - Apr 2019
6 years
Cologne, Germany

Head of expertplace academy & Senior Consultant

expertplace consulting GmbH

Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
4 months
Bad Homburg, Germany

Consultant & PRINCE2 Trainer

Serview GmbH

Nov 2009 - Dec 2013
3 years 2 months
Niederkassel, Germany

IT Consultant Project Management

ACT Expert Services GmbH

Jan 2008 - Oct 2009
1 year 10 months
Cologne, Germany

Consultant Project Management & PRINCE2 Trainer

Arxes GmbH

Aug 2005 - Dec 2008
2 years 5 months
Cologne, Germany

IT Support

Freelancer

Languages

German
Native
Turkish
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Sep 1999 - Jul 2004

Fachhochschule Köln

Diploma in Computer Science, Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Cologne, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Agile Coach

ICO CERT

Agile PM Foundation

COBIT 5 Foundation

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

IREB – Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering

IREB

ISO 20000 Consultant

ISO 20000 Foundation

ISO 27001 Foundation

ITEMO Kanban Professional I

ITIL Expert & Coach

PRINCE 2 Practitioner & Coach

PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner

Professional Scrum Coach

ICO CERT

Professional Scrum Coach

TÜV SÜD

Scrum Master

Scrum Product Owner