Kerstin (Inga) Strasser-Managing Director, Interim IT Project Leadership, Crisis Project Management

• Multi-project management and support for the transformation and strategic direction of a district in Hesse
• Steering 30 projects
• Coaching specialists and managers in project management and team leadership
• Delivering change management seminars

For more than 15 years, Kerstin Strasser has combined current project management expertise with a practice-oriented training and consulting role. Her project focus is on regulated industries such as the public sector, banks, insurance companies, and energy providers. Her goal is always the same: to help specialists and managers lead more effectively, work better together, and bring projects sustainably to success. In her seminars, she combines clear methods with a strong mindset, humorous delivery with depth, and creates a learning environment where there is room for reflection, discussion, and real hands-on practice.

Training focus

• Project management
• Classic project management (planning, steering, controlling, reporting)
• Agile project management (Scrum, Kanban)
• Hybrid project management (combination of classic and agile methods)
• Agile methods & frameworks
• Scrum (including preparation for PSM1 and PSPO1 certification)
• Kanban with Flight Levels (including preparation for PSK)
• Agile leadership / Intent Based Leadership (including preparation for PAL1)
• Facilitation in agile teams (including preparation for PSF)
• Change management
• Tools & collaboration
• Atlassian Jira, Confluence

• Pre-study for a major release update (S4/Hana Core) on a multi-client system
• Took over the preliminary project to develop a roadmap together with release management
• Coaching for project managers
• On-the-job training for staff in the project management office
• Process optimization (according to ITIL)
• Stakeholder management incl. roadmap planning

• Overall project lead for migration project from SAP R/3 to S/4HANA for three companies in the energy sector incl. switch to new template processes (50 employees, 7,000 person-days) with cutover on 01/01/2025.
• Completed on time, on budget and with quality
• Took over the project after the previous project lead changed
• Process optimization, project stabilization, rebuilding of the project organization
• Managed the cutover and early live support phase

• IT project management for public administration clients, design, planning and commissioning of training courses and video productions
• Worked in the HZD cloud program, product manager for "Vitero online classroom"

• Overall project lead for the shutdown of a data center site including application migrations and related infrastructure projects

• Project management office (PMO) for the ORION program (28 subprojects), including standardization of PMO tasks within the IT organization
• Planning and implementation: new setup and application migration of the SCHUFA data center
• Process optimization, program controlling, introduction of agile methods (Kanban)

• IT project management in software and operations projects, portfolio planning, cost and budget control, organizational development, introduction of agile methods, Scrum Master for 2 agile development teams, staff position for IT-RUN projects (operations), application owner for the Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and Bamboo)

• Software development, software design, IT project management

• Programmer (Cobol, Java)