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Work Portfolio

Innovation Games Agreement

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.

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Agile Coach / Scrum Master (Automotive)

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Fortune500 automotive OEM implements for a new ECU development project a mix of LeSS and SAFe practices as an agile working model. At the team level, I supported as Scrum Master a CI/Build pipeline team. At the project level, I was part of the projects Scrum Master community supporting the adaption of the framework.

Scrum Master CI/Build Team (Automotive)

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Fortune500 automotive OEM implements for a new ECU development project a mix of LeSS and SAFe practices as an agile working model. At the team level, I supported as Scrum Master a CI/Build pipeline team. At the project level, I was part of the projects Scrum Master community supporting the adaption of the framework.

Scrum Master/Agile Coach in an international Fortune 500 Food Retail Company.

Reading Time: 2 minutes The client runs the technical IT Department for an international food retail company serving the procurement, sales, and logistics of all the supermarket shops in the EU. As Scrum Master/Agile coach, I was in charge of coaching and supporting two Scrum teams (9 respectively 16 people) in agile mindset and agile setup (Scrum, Kanban, or ScrumBan). This included: hosting and facilitating the Scrum events, coaching the team in Scrum (Scrum Guide 2020), agile estimation, user story slicing, etc. As part of the internal Coaching community (a pool of ca. 70 coaches), I collaborated with other teams and coaches as well.

Scrum Master in Automotive Driver Assistance Systems Development

Reading Time: < 1 minute Scrum Master in automotive driver assistance systems development. As a Scrum Master, I was in charge of coaching and supporting the scrum team (8 people, product owner included) in the agile mindset and Scrum setup. This included: hosting and facilitating the Scrum ceremonies, coaching the team in Scrum (Scrum Guide 2017), agile estimation, user story slicing, etc. As part of the Scrum Master team (4 SM), I coached also management and the organisation in pacing the agile transition.

Executive Management Coaching in Software Process Improvement and Lean/Agile Principles

Reading Time: < 1 minute Executive management coaching (head, upper, and middle management of SW department) and agile coaching on team level (2 feature teams, 2 traditional teams). Introducing agile mind-set and tools: system thinking, design thinking, value stream mapping, agile and lean SW development, agile values, Kanban, Scrum, introducing Lean Change Management.

Product Development / Strategy-Workshop — Visioning The Future of After Sales (Automotive)

Reading Time: < 1 minute For the After Sales Department of a German DAX500 automotive OEM, I designed and facilitated in 2016 a large group strategy workshop. Management, team, and project leader came together to envision future trends in "After Sale 2021". A visioning and brand building workshop with LEGO Serious Play.

Levering Automotive Suppliers SQA Processes (ASPICE)

Reading Time: < 1 minute Levering SW QA Processes of an automotive supplier to Automotive SPICE Level 2. I was in charge of leveraging the SW Quality Assurance processes (SUP.1) to Automotive SPICE Level 2, especially with the focus on software quality. A challenging objective: while in many areas of Automotive, SW development is a decent part of embedded systems development, it is relatively new for gears and transmission production.

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 I developed to demonstrate a waterfall-driven product development the agile mindset. Version 2.0 introduces agile sprint planning and user stories to the game.

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 understanding of events and incidents that happened in the Product Development Life Cycle.

Strategy Workshop "IT Governance & PMI certification" (Airline)

Reading Time: 3 minutes For the department "IT Project Management Office" of a German DAX500 airline, I designed and facilitated a strategy workshop "IT Governance & PMI certification" for 70 IT project managers. The aim of the workshop was to identify ways of creating commitment to adopt the new organsiational PMI certification program, and to define next steps to support the implementational PMI program rollout. A visioning and brand building workshop with LEGO Serious Play.

Team Building Workshop (Agile SW Dev)

Reading Time: 2 minutes For an agile software company, I designed and facilitated an internal team-building workshop to bolster up the internal power of the dev team members again: "Identify your own team power & your power team". A visioning and brand building workshop with LEGO Serious Play.

Strategy Workshop Consumer Health Regulatory Affairs (Pharma)

Reading Time: 2 minutes For a German DAX 500 Pharma company, I designed and facilitated a strategy workshop on consumer health regulatory affairs. After merging all national-wide consumer health regularly affairs departments to one corporate-wide department new ways of collaboration had to be identified. A visioning and brand building workshop with LEGO Serious Play.

Agile Coaching Tools Development: Agile Game “The Drama Game" 1.0

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 understanding of events and incidents that happened in the Product Development Life Cycle.

Agile Coaching Tools Development: Agile Game “Product Owner Challenge" 1.0

Reading Time: < 1 minute “Product Owner Challenge” is an agile game with Lego bricks I created. 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 SW development process model for air traffic management systems development. Coaching the developers, facilitating, moderating, and documenting SW safety workshops.

Team Building (Coaching) Workshop (Telecommunication)

Reading Time: < 1 minute For a German DAX 500 Telecommunication company, I designed and facilitated an internal team-building workshop to foster the togetherness of the dev team. Next-steps were identified to implement the insights gained at the workplace. A visioning and brand building workshop with LEGO Serious Play.

Galileo Satellite Project — Leverage CMMI Systems Engineering

Reading Time: < 1 minute A high-innovative R&D project of a European Avionics and Space Company was faced to improve some of their product development processes to CMMI Dev.1.2 Level 2: Req. Engineering, Project Mgmt, and Quality Mgmt. Since the project developed an ionic beam thruster device for the ESA Galileo Satellite Program, the challenge was to fulfill the objectives of the European Space Agency Standard (ECSS) on the one side and the corporate objectives CMMI L2 on the other side.

Development Training: "Benefits of CMMI for Programmable Electronic Systems in Maritime" (1-day training)

Reading Time: < 1 minute For the maritime business branch of an internationally accredited registrar and classification society, I developed customer training to illustrate the benefits and application of CMMI process areas in developing programmable electronic systems (PES) in building ships.

Business Development: Organisational Change Management (OCM) consultancy

Reading Time: < 1 minute Establishing the new business field Organisational Change Management (OCM) I was the subject matter expert in charge to develop OCM consultancy skill competencies, internal and external training classes, and setting up a toolbox of methods and tools supporting OCM consultancy.

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 ( traceability within documents/DOORS) and on process level by adopting Scrum.

Logistics Service Provider — Leverage IT-Requirements Engineering (CMMI Level 2)

Reading Time: < 1 minute Implementing CMMI Dev. 1.2 Level 2 requirement management/engineering (REQM, RD) improvements for an internationally operating Postal and Logistics Service Provider. Integrating the improvements activities with corporate ITIL release management procedures.

Railway Ticket Marketing System - SW Quality Management & Assurance

Reading Time: < 1 minute Supporting IT development projects in the business area of Railway Ticketing Marketing System with operational QM/QA activities. Evaluating potential improvements on CEO-level. Sub-project of the master project "CIO Corporate Staff Unit SW Quality Assurance Railway".

Railway Routing - SW Quality Management & Assurance

Reading Time: < 1 minute Supporting IT development projects in the business area of routing with operational QM/QA activities. Evaluating potential improvements on CEO-level. Sub-project of the master project "CIO Corporate Staff Unit SW Quality Assurance Railway".

Establishing Staff Unit "Quality Assurance" on Corporate Level (Finance)

Reading Time: < 1 minute Master-Project "CIO Corporate Staff Unit SW Quality Assurance Credit Card Issuing" — Defining the operational structure and establishing a staff unit "Quality Assurance" on a CIO level to start SW quality management and monitoring activities in all IT projects.