Kathrin Siegmann-Requirements Engineer | Business Analyst | Agile Coach

• Analysis, documentation, and alignment of requirements. Conducting stakeholder analyses, interviews, and workshops for requirements gathering and validation. Carrying out requirements reviews and working closely with business units and development teams.

Techniques & tools: requirements engineering, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, system context modeling, requirements reviews, quality scenarios, Miro, Jira, Confluence

• Supporting teams in professionalizing agile processes and structures. Running workshops for assessment and role clarification. Introducing Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, optimizing backlogs, and strengthening self-organization, feedback culture, and personal responsibility.

Techniques & tools: facilitation and coaching methods, Kanban, Jira

• Requirements analysis, software design, development, and testing of a web-based customer portal for a logistics service provider to retrieve customer-specific reports. Working throughout the full development process in an agile environment. Business and technical implementation of data and process structures within a Spring Boot-based application.

Techniques & tools: Scrum, Jira, Confluence, Java EE, Spring Boot (JPA, REST), Spring Security, Git, JUnit, HTML5, CSS

• Collected, analyzed, and structured business requirements for OZG-compliant online services. Led stakeholder workshops and interviews and ensured requirements were traceable and implementable. Used data modeling to structure complex business contexts.

Techniques & Tools: User Stories, quality scenarios, User Centered Design, data modeling, Miro

• Analysis, structuring, and documentation of business requirements for the introduction of a PLM system. Conducted business process analyses and coordinated between business departments and technical stakeholders. Moderated usability tests and ensured a shared business understanding.

Techniques & Tools: User Stories, quality scenarios, User Centered Design, data modeling, software archaeology, Miro

Requirements Engineer, Business Analyst, and Agile Coach with over 19 years of experience in complex software and digitalization projects.  Extensive experience in analyzing and structuring business requirements, process modeling, and working at the interfaces between business departments, development, and other stakeholders.  Focus areas: requirements engineering, business analysis, systems and process analysis, requirements management, data modeling, as well as Jira and Confluence.

• Supporting the management team in strengthening collaboration and communication. Conducting individual coaching sessions and team workshops with a focus on decision-making and mutual trust. Sustainable development of a collaborative team culture.

Techniques & tools: retrospective techniques, facilitation and coaching methods, solution-focused coaching, systemic coaching

• Analysis, documentation, and management of complex system requirements for a safety-critical satellite ground system. Collaboration at system interfaces as well as business alignment between different stakeholders. Creation of traceable specifications and support for system integration.

Techniques & tools: IBM Rational Doors, Enterprise Architect, Axure, Confluence, Jira, REST web services, service-oriented software architecture, use case modeling, architecture documentation according to Arc42, Feature Driven Development (FDD)

• Supporting the team during the relaunch of an e-commerce platform based on Hybris. Coaching in agile methods, facilitating Scrum events, and supporting the Product Owner with backlog maintenance and prioritization.

Techniques & Tools: Scrum, Kanban, facilitation methods, requirements engineering methods, Jira, Confluence, Enterprise Architect

• Facilitated Scrum meetings, supported the team in applying agile practices, and removed impediments during the introduction of new ways of working.

Techniques & Tools: Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence

• Created concepts and workflows for incoming mail and invoice processes. Trained users and introduced the DMS for existing and new customers.

Techniques & Tools: d.3 document management system