Work Portfolio
I support teams in many different industries, .e.g.: Software Development, Automotive, Defense, Telecommunication, Aerospace/Avionics, Pharma, or Air Traffic Management— to name a few only.
In these projects, I used several facilitation techniques like Agile, Games, LEGO Serious Play, or Innovation Games for example.
Executive Management Coaching in Software Process Improvement and Lean/Agile Principles
Reading Time: 1 minute Executive management coach (head, upper, and middle management of SW department) and agile coach on teeam level (2 feature teams, 2 traditional teams). Introducing new methods and tools: system thinking, design thinking, value strem mapping, agile and lean SW development, agile values, Kanban, Scrum,
LEGO Serious Play Workshop — Visioning The Future of After Sales (Automotive)
Reading Time: 1 minute Facilitating a large group EGO Serious Play workshop: management, team and project leader of the Afte Sales Depart. of a hugh german automotive OEM came together to envision and discuss future trends in "2021". A visioning and brand building workshop with LEGO.
Levering Automotive Suppliers SQA Processes
Reading Time: 1 minute Levering Automotive Suppliers QA Processes to Automotive SPICE Level 2.
Team Building & Collaboration of Product Owners
Reading Time: 3 minutes My mandate was to support a PO team to achieve better personal acknowledgement and to foster their internal collaboration.
Agile Coaching Tools Development: Agile Game “Product Owner Challenge 2.0"
Reading Time: 1 minute "Product Owner Challenge" is an agile game played with Lego bricks to demonstrate a waterfall-driven product development the agile mindset.
Agile Coaching Tools Development: "Team Charter Canvas"
Reading Time: 1 minute The team charter canvas is a perfect tool to reflect in more depth about team values, norms, chartering, and team culture.
Agile Coaching Tools Development: Agile Game “The Drama Game 2.0"
Reading Time: 1 minute “The Drama Game” is a Story Telling Game to identify stakeholders behaviours and hidden expectations. Playing the game in retrospectives creates a shared understandings of events and incidents happened in the Product Development Life Cycle.
LEGO Serious Play Workshop: "IT Goverance & PMI certification" — Airline
Reading Time: 3 minutes Faciliating a LEGO Serious Play Workshop "IT Goverance & PMI certification" — Create commitment of 70 project managers to adopt the new organsiational PMI certification program; define next steps to support the implementational program rollout.
Team Building Workshop with Agile Games and LEGO Serious Play
Reading Time: 2 minutes Facilitating a team building workshop with Agile Games and LEGO Serious Play. An agile software company wanted to identify and bolster up the internal power of the devteam members again: "Identify your team power & your power team"
LEGO Serious Play Workshop — Creating Strategy (Automotive)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Facilitating a LEGO Serious Play workshop: international sales directors of an automotive supplier came together with upper management to discuss how to achieve new business goals for 2014/2015.
Temenos Workshop — Jax2014
Reading Time: 1 minute Temenos is an experience based workshop format for people interested in personal growth, strength, and authentic relationship with others. At the Jax2014 conference Olaf Lewitz and Christine Neidhardt ran a Temenos workshop with 275 ppl. supported by several co-facilitators.
LEGO Serious Play Workshop — Consumer Health Regulary Affairs (Pharma)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Facilitating a LEGO Serious Play Workshop: Consumer Health Regulary Affairs (Pharma). After merging the independent national regulation affairs departments to one global department, the challenge for the employes was to identify new ways of collaboration and to define steps necessary to set up this new mindset.
Agile Coaching Tools Development: Agile Game “The Drama Game"
Reading Time: 1 minute “The Drama Game” is a Story Telling Game to identify stakeholders behaviours and hidden expectations. Playing the game in retrospectives creates a shared understandings of events and incidents happened in the Product Development Life Cycle.
Agile Coaching Tools Development: Agile Game “Product Owner Challenge"
Reading Time: 1 minute “Product Owner Challenge” is a agile game with Lego bricks. It supports organisations in transitioning from Waterfall to Agile and illustrates the agile mindset to a waterfall-driven product development culture: stop micro-management and communicate face-to-face clear objectives, requirements, and product vision.
Process & Safety Management — SW-Development Air Traffic Management
Reading Time: 2 minutes Implementing a DO-178B, DO-178C/ED-12C compliant software development process model for air traffic management systems developer. Moderating, and documenting safety workshops.
LEGO Serious Play Workshop — Coaching / Team Development (TelCom)
Reading Time: 1 minute An international Germany-based telecommuncation company asked to foster the togetherness of the devteam. In a LEGO Serious Play workshop the participants identified each others individual goals and desires. From this next-steps were identified needed to implement the next day on the workplace all insights.
Re-Engineering Functional Requirements and Testability of Driver Assistentance Video System — (Image Processing)
Reading Time: 1 minute Re-Engineering of functional requirements, test scenarios and test cases for a video camera driver assistant system.
Galileo Satellite Project — Leverage CMMI Systems Engineering
Reading Time: 1 minute A high-innovative R&D project of an european Avionics and Space Company was faced to improve some of their product development processes: Req. Engineering, Project Mgmt, and Quality Mgmt to CMMI Dev.1.2 Level 2. Since the project developed an ionic beam thruster device for the ESA Gallieo Satellite Program, the challenge was to fulfil the objectives of the European Space Agency Standard (ECSS) on the one side and the corporate objectives CMMI L2 on the other side.
Training Development: "Benefits of using CMMI for Programmable Electronic Systems in Maritime" (1-day training)
Reading Time: 1 minute For the maritime business branch I developed a customer training to illustrate benefits and application of CMMI process areas in developing programmable electronic systems (PES) in building ships.
Supplier-Assessment Automotive SPICE®
Reading Time: 1 minute ISO 15504 Automotive SPiCE co-assessor in an automotive supplier ASPiCE L2 assessment. Assessed were the development processes (extended HIS standard) of developement facilities in Germany, UK, and India.
Training Development: Configuration Mgt Trainings — Aerospace
Reading Time: 1 minute Design and development of configurations management trainings for the rollout of CMMI Dev. 1.2 Level 2 compliant CM processes.
Radar & Radio Navigation Systems — Leverage CMMI L2 Systems Engineering
Reading Time: 1 minute Leverage CMMI L2 Systems Engineering Project (Radar & Radio Navigation Systems)
Business Development: Organisational Change Management (OCM) consultancy
Reading Time: 1 minute Establishing the new business field Organisational Change Management (OCM); setup skill competencies, internal and external trainings, and collection of methods and tools.
Improvement Analysis of Requirements Processes (CMMI L2 REQM)
Reading Time: 1 minute Inspection of the requirements engineering and management processes of an automotive supplier for potential improvements. Identifying recommendations for improvements on artefacts level ( tracebility within documents/DOORS db) and further potential improvements on process level.
Training Development „ISO 15504 for System Engineers“ (3 days training)
Reading Time: 1 minute Conceptual design (content, slides, methods) and realisation of a 3 day training (english) „ISO 15504 for System Engineers“.
Training Development „ISO 15504 for Managers“ (1 day training)
Reading Time: 1 minute Conceptual design (content, slides, methods) and realisation of a 3 day training (english) „ISO 15504 for Managers“.
Training Development „Automotive SPICE® for System Engineers“ (3 days training)
Reading Time: 1 minute Conceptual design (content, slides, methods) and realisation of a 3 day training (english) „Automotive SPICE® for System Engineers“.
Training Development „Automotive SPICE® for Managers“ (1 day training)
Reading Time: 1 minute Conceptual design (content, slides, methods) and realisation of a 3 day training (english) „Automotive SPICE® for Managers“.
Improving Electronics & Embedded Systems Development on Corporate Level — CMMI REQM L2
Reading Time: 1 minute Improving Electronics & Embedded Systems Development on Corporate Level (CMMI REQM Level 2) for an US-based automotive OEM.
Logistics Service Provider — Leverage IT-Requirements Engineering (CMMI Level 2)
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Germany located IT department of an international Postal and Logistics Service Provider was challenged to pass a CMMI Dev. 1.2 Level 2 appraisal. At the same time the overall IT maintenance and operation processes run according to ITIL 2.0 with quarterly planned release and update cycles.
Training Development: "Certified Tester Foundation Level"
Reading Time: 1 minute Conceptual design and realisation of "Certified Tester Foundation Level" training course (english): content, slides, methods. Content according to iNTACS training syllabus.
Steering Driver Assistance System — Leveraging SPiCE Level 2
Reading Time: 2 minutes Leveraging a development project for a steering driver assistance system to ISO 15504 (SPiCE) Level 2.
Authoring Marketing-Portal User Help Files for Large German Airline
Reading Time: 1 minute Authoring a marketing portal user help files for large german airline.
Railway Ticket Marketing System - IT Operational Quality Management & Assurance
Reading Time: 1 minute Supporting the IT development projects in the business area of Railway Ticketing Marketing System with operational QM/QA activities and evaluation in respect to possible improvements.
Railway Routeing - IT Operational Quality Management & Assurance
Reading Time: 1 minute Supporting the IT development projects in the business area of routeing with operational QM/QA activities and evaluation in respect to possible improvements.
Callcenter/Fulfillment - IT Operational Quality Management & Assurance
Reading Time: 1 minute Supporting the IT development projects in the business area of call center/fulfillment with operational QM/QA activities and evaluation in respect to possible improvements.
Concept Development & Implementation of a Knowledge Management System
Reading Time: 1 minute For an international logistics and railway company I developed a concept and evaluation scheme for a QM Handbook Intranet-Portal Solution.
Concept Development & Implementation of a Knowledge Management System
Reading Time: 1 minute For an international logistics and railway company I developed a concept and evaluation scheme for a QM Handbook Intranet-Portal Solution.
Establishing Staff Unit "Quality Assurance" on CIO-Level
Reading Time: 1 minute Defining the operational structure and establishing a staff unit "Quality Assurance" on CIO level to start quality management and monitoring activities in all IT projects (in-house and outsourced ones).
SWOT- Assessment QM on Department Level
Reading Time: 1 minute For a reinsurance company I assessmed six internal IT systems/projects regarding process strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.
PIN Authorisation System - IT Operational Quality Management & Assurance
Reading Time: 1 minute Supporting the IT system "PIN Authorisation System" with operational QM/QA activities.
SAP Data Warehouse - IT Operational Quality Management & Assurance
Reading Time: 1 minute Supporting the IT system "SAP Data Warehouse" with operational QM/QA activities.
Acquirer Payment Gateway - IT Operational Quality Management & Assurance
Reading Time: 1 minute Supporting the IT system "Acquirer Payment Gateway" with operational QM/QA activities.
Establishing Staff Unit "Quality Assurance" on Corporate Level
Reading Time: 1 minute Defining the operational structure and establishing a staff unit "Quality Assurance" on corporate level to start quality management and monitoring activities in all IT projects.
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