Tomas Jiskra
Senior Agile Project Management / Professional Scrum Mastery
Experience
Senior Agile Project Management / Professional Scrum Mastery
BRZ - Federal Computing Center (Federal Ministry of Finance)
- Deputy project manager within one of the largest projects in the Union Customs Code program, CEIS CDA for the Federal Ministry of Finance
- Budget planning and control
- Negotiations and ongoing communication with all relevant stakeholders
- Risk identification and assessment, as well as developing risk mitigation strategies
- Developing and implementing action strategies to achieve project objectives
- Efficient resource planning and allocation to support project requirements
- Managing the release process using agile methods and coordinating sprints for analysis, development and testing phases
- Process optimizations and regular reporting for progress monitoring and decision-making
Enterprise Agile Coach / Consultant
Greentube GmbH (NOVOMATIC Group)
In my role at the organizational level, I am responsible for planning and implementing the strategy of a modern, agile IT organization, with the goal of creating a contemporary structure that is aligned with customer needs. This includes, among other things, developing and designing value chains within the company. Another key part of my work is the integration of ServiceNow and Jira, aiming to create a unified service catalog that meets customer needs and to foster organizational collaboration between IT and business.
- Teaching agile methods
- Improving team dynamics
- Removing obstacles
- Building leadership skills
- Establishing agile practices and processes
- Creating organizational frameworks
- Change management
My project successes so far focus on sustainably increasing productivity and reducing operational costs without losing valuable team members on the agile journey.
IT project management / Agile coaching / Scrum Mastery
Pension Insurance Institution
- Coaching project management team leaders and sub-project managers in the e-PV next project for merging and replacing the DANTE and MedDB applications
- Bundling competencies and resources more strongly and flexibly in an interdisciplinary way
- Introducing new agile forms of collaboration
- Transitioning the project into an agile project structure and optimizing the organizational setup for short, time-boxed cycles
- Setting up tools and events, and defining the roles of Scrum Masters and Product Owners based on the Scrum framework
- Supporting individuals in internalizing agile values and working methods
- Training two internal junior agile coaches for sustainable transformation implementation
Project management / Agile coaching / Scrum Mastery
Erste Digital GmbH
- Lateral coordination of four project streams as an Agile Coach within Pegasystems' banking solution with 19 applications
- Applying agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban as well as Prince2 Agile
- Structural and personnel design of the leading project in two value streams (credit and customer account cards)
- Supporting process and product owners, and organizing and conducting necessary meetings and workshops
- Team and individual coaching of stakeholders in Austria and the Czech Republic, business analysts and lead solution architects
- Coordinating development work of two offshore suppliers
- Assisting Scrum Masters in increasing velocity, removing impediments and improving speed and quality of development work
- Training the development team on self-organization and the Scrum framework
- Ensuring backlog priorities, negotiating with stakeholders, eliminating technical debt and overseeing timely delivery and deployment
Agile Coaching / Scrum Mastery / Executive Coaching
ZF Race Engineering GmbH
Adapting and introducing a new organizational structure based on a scaled agile framework.
- Spreading agile methods across the organization
- Selecting and training agile leadership tools
- Coaching senior management
- Removing obstacles
- Facilitating and improving communication
The tools and methods used relate to Scrum, Kanban and Design Thinking, as well as agile leadership and Management 3.0 methods and tools.
Scrum Mastery / Executive Coaching
Erste Digital GmbH
- Advising the executive board on the Erste Digital expansion project to Kosice in eastern Slovakia
- Advising on agile structures
- Supporting the early phase of the project, as well as organizing and attending strategic meetings with an economic delegation from Austria
Scrum Professional: Agile Project Manager, Agile Coach & Scrum Master
Spark-One GmbH DACH & CEE
- Scrum Mastery & Agile Team Coaching (facilitation and moderation)
- Agile project management
- Agile basics training (introduction to agile values and principles)
- Self-organization and cross-functional collaboration
- Transformation and optimization of business processes
- Facilitating Scrum meetings and sprint retrospectives
- Building agile know-how among internal colleagues
- Applying agile methods and design thinking
- Change management and culture change
- Mentoring and one-on-one coaching for leaders
Summary
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 presentations in the following areas:
- Scrum Mastery & Agile Team Coaching (facilitation and moderation)
- Agile project management
- Agile fundamentals 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
- Applying agile methods & design thinking
- Change management & cultural transformation
- Mentoring and 1:1 coaching of leaders
Tomas helps leaders, team members and organizations become more agile, align products and services closer to customers and the market by bundling them into value streams, and build delivery organizations with all relevant stakeholders involved. With an excellent track record spanning over 18 years as a leader, entrepreneur and family man, he is not only the architect of many agile organizations but also gets hands-on in implementing the concepts he developed.
Skills
- 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, Pharmaceuticals, Public Administration, Gambling Industry
Languages
Education
FHWien of WKW (University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication)
Master's Degree in Business, Marketing & Sales · Business (Marketing & Sales) · Vienna, Austria
Certifications & licenses
ITIL® 4 Foundation
BPMN 2.0 Foundation & Practitioner
Advanced Certified Scrum Developer® (A-CSD)
Agile Coaching Skills - Certified Facilitator (ACS-CF)
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 ScrumMaster® (CSP-SM)
Certified Scrum Professional and Product Owner® (CSP-PO)
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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