Tomas Jiskra - Senior Agile Project Management / Professional Scrum Mastery

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Vienna, Austria

Experience

Feb 2024 - Mar 2025

1 year 2 months

Austria

Senior Agile Project Management / Professional Scrum Mastery

BRZ - Bundesrechenzentrum (Bundesministerium für Finanzen)

Deputy project manager in 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, and developing risk mitigation strategies. Creating and implementing action strategies to achieve project goals, efficient resource planning and allocation to support project needs, managing the release process using agile methods and coordinating sprints for analysis, development and testing phases. Process optimizations and regular reporting to monitor progress and inform decisions 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 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 focuses on customer needs. This includes, among other things, developing and designing value chains in the company. Another key part of my work is integrating ServiceNow and Jira to create a unified service catalog that aligns with customer needs and fosters organizational collaboration between IT and business.
Teach agile methods
Improve team dynamics
Remove obstacles
Build leadership skills
Establish agile practices and processes
Create organizational framework conditions
Change management
My past 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 project management team leaders and subproject leads in the e-PV next project to merge and replace the DANTE and MedDB applications, aiming to pool competencies and resources more flexibly across disciplines and internalize new agile ways of working. Transitioning the project into an agile project structure and optimizing the organization toward a workflow driven by short, timeboxed cycles across teams and phases. Setting up tools and events and defining the roles of Scrum Masters and Product Owners based on the Scrum framework, and supporting individuals in internalizing agile values and work methods. Training two internal junior agile coaches to ensure sustainable transformation 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 an agile coach within the Pegasystems banking solution, covering 19 applications on the platform, using agile methods like Scrum, Kanban, and Prince2 Agile. Structural and staffing design of the leading project in two value chains (credit and customer accounts) of the bank. Supporting process and product owners, organizing and running necessary meetings and workshops for work organization, as well as team and individual coaching of stakeholders on the bank side in Austria and Czech Republic, business analysts, and lead solution architects. Coordinating development work of two offshore suppliers, and supporting Scrum Masters in increasing velocity, removing impediments, and improving speed and quality of development work. Training the development team in self-organization and the Scrum framework. Ensuring backlog prioritization, negotiating with bank stakeholders, removing technical debt, and overseeing on-time delivery and deployment.

Jul 2022 - Dec 2022

6 months

Germany

Agile Coaching / Scrum Mastery / Executive Coaching

ZF Race Engineering GmbH, Automobilbereich

Adapting and introducing a new organization structure based on a scaled agile framework originally invented by Apple Inc. Breaking down the “Act Powerful and Agile” strategy into operational steps, mainly reinventing leadership style, simplifying the organization, and adjusting operating models. Co-creating a single global team made up of virtual teams in Germany, Italy, the UK, the US, and China. Supporting the organization's and teams' agile change management process.
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 are mainly agile methods like Scrum, Kanban, and Design Thinking. They include tools of agile leadership and Management 3.0, as well as general change management. 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 on the expansion project of Erste Digital to Košice in eastern Slovakia. Advising on agile structures. Supporting the early phase of the project and organizing and attending strategic meetings together with an Austrian business delegation.

Jan 2018 - Present

7 years 7 months

Scrum Professional: Agile Project Manager, Agile Coach & Scrum Master

Spark-One GmbH

As an experienced agile project manager and Scrum agilist with over 10 years of Scrum and industry experience, I coach, advise, and train clients and deliver keynote talks in the following areas:
Scrum mastery & agile team coaching (facilitation and moderation)
Agile project management
Agile basic trainings (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 executives, employees, and organizations adopt agility early, align products and services closer to customers and the market by bundling into value streams, and build delivery organizations involving all relevant stakeholders. With an excellent track record of 18+ years as a leader, entrepreneur, and father, he not only architects many agile organizations but also gets hands-on 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, Alea, 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, pharma, public administration, gambling

Summary

Tomas helps executives, as well as employees and organizations, adopt agility early, align products and services closer to customers and the market by bundling into value streams, and build delivery organizations involving all relevant stakeholders.

Languages

Czech

Native

German

Native

English

Native

Slovak

Advanced

Spanish

Elementary

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