Tomas Jiskra
Senior Agile Project Management / Professional Scrum Mastery
Experience
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
1 year 2 months Austria
Senior Agile Project Management / Professional Scrum Mastery
BRZ - Bundesrechenzentrum (Bundesministerium für Finanzen)
- Deputy project management for one of the largest projects in the Union Customs Code program, CEIS CDA for the Federal Ministry of Finance. Project management tasks included budget planning and control, negotiations and continuous communication with all relevant stakeholders, risk identification and assessment, as well as development of risk mitigation strategies. Creation and implementation of action strategies to achieve project objectives, efficient resource planning and allocation to support project requirements, management of the release process integrating agile methods, and coordination of sprints for analysis, development and testing phases. Process optimizations and regular reporting to monitor progress and support decision-making within the project and the overall program.
Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 7 months Vienna, Austria
Enterprise Agile Coach / Consultant
Greentube GmbH (Novomatic Group)
- In my role at organizational level, I am responsible for planning and implementing the strategy of a modern agile IT organization, aiming to create a contemporary structure oriented to customer needs. This includes, among other things, drafting and designing value chains within the company. Another key part of my work is integrating ServiceNow and Jira to create a unified service catalog that meets customer needs and to foster organizational collaboration between IT and business.
- Teach agile methods
- Improve team dynamics
- Remove impediments
- Develop leadership skills
- Establish agile practices and processes
- Create organizational frameworks
- Change management
- My previous project successes aim to sustainably increase productivity and reduce operational costs without losing valuable employees on the agile journey.
Jul 2023 - Feb 2024
8 months Austria
IT Projektmanagement / Agiles Coaching / Scrum Mastery
Pensionsversicherungsanstalt, öffentliche Verwaltung
- Coaching executives of the project management team and subproject leads in the e-PV next project for merging and replacing the DANTE and MedDB applications, aiming to more effectively and flexibly pool competencies and resources across disciplines and internalize new agile ways of working. Transitioning the project into an agile project structure and optimizing the organizational structure toward a way of working where the project progresses across teams and phases in short, time-boxed cycles. Setting up tools and events as well as defining the roles of Scrum Masters and Product Owners based on the Scrum framework and supporting individuals in internalizing agile values and working methods. Training two internal junior agile coaches to ensure sustainable transformation implementation and project success.
Dec 2022 - Jul 2023
8 months Austria
Projektmanagement / Agiles Coaching / Scrum Mastery
Erste Digital GmbH, Finanzbereich
- Lateral coordination of four project streams as Agile Coach within Pegasystems' banking solution with a total of 19 applications on the platform, applying agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban, as well as Prince2 Agile. Structural and personnel design of the bank's leading project in two value streams (loan and customer account cards). Supporting process and product owners, organizing and facilitating necessary meetings and workshops for work organization, as well as team and individual coaching of stakeholders on the banking side in Austria and the Czech Republic, business analysts, and lead solution architects. Coordinating development work of two offshore suppliers, and assisting Scrum Masters in increasing velocity, removing impediments, and improving the speed and quality of development work. Training the development team on self-organization and the Scrum framework. Ensuring backlog item prioritization, negotiating with stakeholders on the banking side, eliminating technical debt, and overseeing timely delivery and deployment.
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
6 months Germany
Agile Coaching / Scrum Mastery / Executive Coaching
ZF Race Engineering GmbH, Automobilbereich
- Adaptation and introduction of a new organizational structure based on a scaled agile framework originally devised by Apple Inc. Breaking down the 'Act Powerful and Agile' strategy into operational steps, primarily reinventing leadership style, simplifying the organization, and adjusting operating models, co-creating a single global team composed of virtual teams in Germany, Italy, the UK, the USA, and China. Accompanying the organization's and teams' agile change management process.
- Spreading agile methods within the organization
- Selecting and training (agile) leadership tools
- Coaching senior management
- Removing impediments
- Facilitating and improving communication
- The tools and methods used mainly refer to agile approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, and Design Thinking. Methods and tools from agile leadership and Management 3.0 as well as general change management are employed. As an agile coach, I also act as a facilitator guided by agile values and principles.
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
4 months Slovakia
Scrum Mastery / Executive Coaching
Erste Digital GmbH, Finanzbereich
- Advising the board in the expansion project of Erste Digital to Košice in eastern Slovakia. Consulting on agile structures. Supporting the early phase of the project as well as organizing and participating in strategic meetings together with an economic delegation from Austria.
Jan 2018 - Present
7 years 7 monthsScrum Professional: Agile Project Manager, Agile Coach & Scrum Master
Spark-One GmbH
- As an experienced Agile Project Manager and Scrum Agilist with more than 10 years of Scrum and industry experience, I coach, advise and train clients and deliver keynote speeches in the following areas:
- Scrum Mastery & Agile Team Coaching (facilitation and moderation)
- Agile project management
- Agile foundational training (introduction to agile values and principles)
- Self-organization and cross-functional collaboration
- Transformation & optimization of business processes
- Facilitation of scrum meetings & sprint retrospectives
- Building agile know-how among internal colleagues
- Application of agile methods & Design Thinking
- Change management & cultural transformation
- Mentoring and 1:1 coaching of executives
- Tomas helps executives as well as employees and organizations to embrace agility, align products and services more closely to customers and the market by bundling them into value streams, and to build delivery organizations involving all relevant stakeholders. With an excellent track record of 18+ years as a leader, entrepreneur, and family man, he is not only the architect of many agile organizations but also personally involved in implementing the concepts he developed.
- Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, S@S, LeSS, SAFe, Nexus, FAST, OKR (Objectives and Key Results)
- Tools: Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Asana, Trello, MS Planner, Aleas, Zoom, MS Teams, Slack, HP / IBM Application Lifecycle Management, Microsoft Office 365, MS Project, Planforge, MS Visio, Miro, Mural, Webex / Jabber, Bitbucket, Jenkins, ServiceNow
- Industry experience: Services, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Automotive, Pharmaceutical, Public Sector, Gaming Industry
Summary
Tomas helps executives as well as employees and organizations to embrace agility, align products and services more closely to customers and the market by bundling them into value streams, and to build delivery organizations involving all relevant stakeholders.
Languages
Czech
Native
English
Native
German
Native
Slovak
Advanced
Russian
Elementary
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Education
Oct 2002 - Jun 2006
FHWien of WKW (University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication)
Master’s Degree in Business, Marketing & Sales · Business · Vienna, Austria
Certifications & licenses
Advanced Certified Scrum Developer® (A-CSD)
Agile Coaching Skills - Certified Facilitator (ACS-CF)
BPMN 2.0 Foundation & Practitioner
Certified Agile Change Manager
Certified Agile Leadership (CAL II)
Certified Agile Leadership Essentials® (CAL-E)
Certified Agile Leadership for Organizations® (CAL-O)
Certified Agile Leadership for Teams® (CAL-T)
Certified Management 3.0
Certified Scrum Professional
Certified Scrum Professional Product Owner® (CSP-PO)
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSP-SM)
ITIL® 4 Foundation
Kanban Coaching Professional (KMM & KCP)
Kanban Management Professional (KMP I & KMP II)
Leading SAFe® (SA)
PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation
SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC)
SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE)
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