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Agile Use Case History 2012-2024

Flight Level Coach I Implementing Flight Levels I 6 Month I Boehringer Ingelheim

Digital Transformation of Animal Health global Digital Products & Projects I 2024

The global digital animal health unit, which is currently undergoing transformation, has the vision of optimizing the user experience of veterinarians and animal owners by offering a GxP-platform-based super app store.

    • Strategic consulting & operational support for the agile transformation of AH-DPP (20 people in Germany)

    • Leadership coaching for Global AH-DPP (FL3)

    • Planning & execution of the kick-off workshop to identify common goals, roles and required capacities to realize the super app store vision

    • Implementation of “Flight Level” within AH DPP

    • Solution of impediments & dependencies (FL2)

    • Coaching for Product Manage, Product Owner and Scrum Master (FL1)

    • Creation of the accompanying JIRA/Confluence structure

    • Creation of the initial AH DPP product backlog

Sr. Scrum Master (PSM II) I Agile Scaling I 12 Month I Boehringer Ingelheim

Agile Scaling Product Ecosystem Platform I 2023-2024

The collaboration between Enterprise IT Department and IT- Marketing & Sales aims to deliver internal digital products faster through a modular based GxP-platform approach.

    • Being the Scrum Master for 2 DevOps Teams

    • Optimization of ongoing Scrum processes in the team

    • Solving impediments and conflicts in the team

    • Product owner coaching and product backlog management

    • Joint development of a product roadmap

    • Coaching and training of an internal Jr. Scrum Master

    • Design and implementation of a scaling approach based on “LeSS”

    • Cultivating a shared product vision in a product team that is working on several use cases and is about to scale

    • Cross-divisional stakeholder management

    • Mediation between different corporate cultures

Sr. Agile Coach I Team & Innovation Coaching I 18 Month I Boehringer Ingelheim

Product Team Coaching within BI X E2E ProcessI 2022-2023

As a product team within BI X, you aim to validate the core assumptions of the product and develop an MVP that proves desirability, feasibility and usability, concluding with a pilot project that can be handed over to the highly regulated business.

    • Coaching of multiple product teams 

    • Development of the respective value propositions and identification of the product hypotheses

    • Formulation of the business model canvas

    • Agile requirements management training

    • Creation of initial backlogs

    • Team staffing and team building

    • Development of suitable workflows and meeting structures, e.g. working according to Scrum or Kanban

    • Resolving impediments and conflicts in the team

    • Product Owner Coaching

    • Product backlog management

    • Development of outcome-related product roadmaps

    • Cross-divisional stakeholder management

Sr. Agile Coach I Chapter Building I 9 Month I BIX a Boehringer Company

Organizational Development- Building SrMD-Chapter I 2023

The SaMD Chapter had the mandate of establishing a GxP-blueprint for the development of  Software as a medical Device for the highly regulated Pharma Industry.

    • Founding of the SaMD Chapter (+14 people)

    • Coaching of the SaMD Chapter Leads (FL3)

    • Concept and moderation of the SaMD kick-off workshop

    • Development of suitable workflows and meeting structures based on Flight Levels

    • Cultivation and training of agile principles and values

    • Moderation of chapter meetings and retrospectives (FL2)

    • Resolving impediments and conflicts in the team (FL1)

Sr. Agile & OKR Coach I Agile Coaching I 18 Month I BIX a Boehringer Company

Agile Coaching COP I  I 2022-2023

The Innovation Hub of BI has the mandate to innovate on disruptive digital Products for the traditional Pharma Company BI. Ideas qualify in an E2E Process from scratch to Pilot.

    • Coaching of the BI X Leadership Team

    • Revision of the E2E process 2.0 &

    • Breaking down silos by defining common goals

    • Optimization of the OKR flow

    • OKR Trainings

    • Introduction of chapter OKRs

    • Management of agile communities of practice and events

    • Agile training (agile working, Scrum, Kanban, OKR, BMC, VPC)

    • Peer coaching in the agile coaching chapter

OKR Coach & Sr. Scrum Master I Agile Coaching I 7 Month I Blue Movement a BSH GmbH Venture

Organizational Development- Blue Movements agile Transformation“ I 2021-2022

The aim of the Bosch venture is to establish the sharing economy within home applications.The alignment of the various business units with common goals, the development an understanding of business agility in order to familiarize with market requirements and the ability to respond quickly and proactively became curtail.

    • Accompanying the agile transformation with more than 40 distributed colleagues from the Netherlands, Germany and Poland

    • Coaching the CEO, CFO and COO to build GxP-Processes

    • Cultivating and training agile principles and values

    • Leading the agile community of practice

    • Revision & implementation of the OKR flow

    • OKR training for all business units

    • Implementing the updated OKR Flow

    • Being the Scrum Master for a e-commerce Platform Product

    • Optimizing the ongoing Scrum processes in the team

    • Resolving impediments and conflicts in the team

    • Product owner coaching and product backlog management

    • Joint development of a product roadmap

    • Implementation of agile requirements management

Sr. Scrum Master I Agile Scaling I 18 Month I DB Vertrieb GmbH 

LeSS Agile Scaling-DB Data Lake I  2020-2022

The Data Lake was developed to offer customer data in real time and to align the activities of various DB companies on the basis of data.

    • Being the Scrum Master for 2 DevOps Teams

    • Optimization of ongoing processes in the team

    • Solving impediments and conflicts in the team

    • Coaching for the SAFe roles RTE/PM/PO

    • DevOps coaching

    • Cross-team retrospectives

    • Design & implementation of needs-based scaling based on LeSS for a team of +20 people

    • Development of a “One Product” orientation

    • Development of suitable work flows and meeting structures

Agility Master & Team Lead I Team Development I 24 Month I DB Systel GmbH 

Agile Lead for Team CI“ I 2020-2022

The Unit Data Intelligence forms its Product Teams around the potential of customer data and the potential to adapt and predict services based on these data.

    • Team leadership for a team of 10 people

    • Accompanied the personal development of each team member

    • facilitated the process of identifying a team vision and strategy

    • optimized the team processes & workflow

    • Worked KANBAN based

    • OKR Implementation

    • OKR training for the entire team

    • Team goals identified aligned with individual goals

    • Promoted agile culture and self-organization

    • guided the team through the official & three-step transformation process

    • Developed the team from a project team into a product team

Sr. Scrum Master I Agile Scaling I 12 Month I DB Systel GmbH

Agile Scaling- Rail in Motion IT/OT Platform I 2018-2019

Within the development of a IT/OT platform to facilitate planning and coordination of shifts and cargo transports.

    • Being the Scrum Master for 2 DevOps Teams

    • Optimization of ongoing processes in the team

    • Solving impediments and conflicts in the team

    • Coaching for product owners

    • Design & implementation of LeSS-based scaling for a +18 person team

    • Development of a “One Product” alignment

    • Development of suitable work flows and meeting structures

    • Agile requirements management for stakeholders

    • Scrum in One Picture trainings

    • Promoting agile culture and self-organization

    • Transferring the team to the official & three-stage transformation process

    • Developed the team from a project team into a product team

Transformation Coach I Organizational Coaching I 4 Years I DB Systel GmbH  

Organizational Development- Enterprise Transformation DB Systel from Project to Products I 2017-2020

As the internal Information Technology Provider of Deutsche Bahn, DB Systel aimed to be more adaptive and fast to react on the partners need and provide them state of the art solutions. To realize this mission DB Systel transformed from a traditional organization with project focus into a Product Team driven Network Organization.

    • Design and implementation of the training curriculum “Product Teams & Self-Organization”

    • Coaching for teams and managers as a member of the coaching pool for the new enterprise key roles: agility master, product owner and implementation team

    • Empowering agile and self-organized teams, units and clusters

    • Building agile communities of practice

    • Enabling product teams to define their business model

    • Training in agile values & principles I SCRUM I KANBAN I OKR

Agile Coach & Team Lead I Team Development I 12 Month I DB Cargo GmbH

IT/OT Chatbot Dialogs @ Rail I 2017-2018

In order to digitalize the processes of rail workers the Team developed a IT/OT Chatbot Application to mange and document damages. Team leadership for a team of 8 people

    • Supporting the personal development of each team member

    • Development of suitable work flows and meeting structures

    • Working KANBAN based

    • Promoting agile culture and self-organization

    • Guiding the team through the official & three-stage transformation process

    • Developed the team from a project team into a product team

Innovation Coach I Innovation Coaching I 12 Month I DB Systel GmbH

Mentoring for Digital Innovation Lab DB Skydeck I 2017

The DB’s Innovation Hub aims for acceleration of digitale Innovations and provide a digital ecosystem for Founders by providing a workshops, coaching and a dedicated 3 Month innovation program which transforms ideas into pilots.

    • Module Owner for “Business Model Canvas” and “Value Proposition Canvas”

    • Helping idea generators in incubation coaching to condense their idea and develop an initial value proposition

    • Coaching for intrapreneurs and their teams as part of the 3-month innovation program

    • Product management coaching for teams up to the prototype

    • Validation of product hypotheses regarding desirability, usability and feasibility

Agile Project Manager I Change Management I 12 Month I Lufthansa AG

Centralizing Software License Management I 2016-2017

The Global License Unit has the mandate to manage IT-Licenses from all GLOBAL LH entities centrally. In order to facilitate this mandate a Platform got established and Tableau implemented.

    • Agile project management

    • Implementation of TABLEAU

    • Communication of agile principles & values

    • Filling the Scrum Master role

    • Cross-divisional stakeholder management

Facilitator I Workshop Lead I 4 Years I JJ e.V. 

Initiative ‚I am me‘ and ‚Just be clever’ I 2012-2016

The non-profit organization is dedicated to supporting children and young people through coaching in order to identify own strengths and highlighting individual potentials.  In workshops, we consciously work with group dynamics and strengthen the self-confidence of individuals.

    • Workshop leader

    • Team Building to improve group dynamics

    • Identification of group challenges

    • Development of solution strategies

    • Coaching of teachers

    • Public relations work

    • Support for information events

Agile Project Management I Agile Enablement I 6 Month I Telekom AG

Agile Enablement for Agile Capability Center I 2012

The Agile Capability Center tested new agile Tools and frameworks for their potential Use inside of the Products & Innovation Unit.

    • Implementation of a Scrum pilot project 

    • Enabling agile principles & values

    • Implementation of cross-location agile training

    • Working according to Scrum as part of the implementation