Thore (A.) Von Stürmer-Agile Coach, (interim) Scrum Master

• Leadership (technical and process-related) of several blueprinting teams in different subject areas (including Customer Selfcare, Agent Care, API)
• Responsibility for partner processes via an API gateway in one of the largest transformation projects in Europe
• Blueprinting of functionalities
• Functional/technical definition, concept development, and detailed design of API processes
• Concept development and creation of acceptance test specifications
• Technical consulting and concept development for component development
• Coordination and execution of final acceptance tests before commissioning & go-live

Approach/Methods:

• Requirements management
• BPMN
• Lean blueprinting
• Stakeholder management in an international project context

• Implementation of the SAFe framework in corporate IT with around 100 people
• Interface management
• Requirements management
• Coaching of Product Owners
• Setting up and first support of CoPs (Community of Practice)
• Establishing processes/decision structures around the CoPs
• Workshops to sharpen the "Agile" CoP
• Moderation of SAFe ceremonies
• Further development/adaptation of the SAFe framework to the customer organization
• Development of an innovation process
• Management sparring with stakeholders
• Scrum Master for three development teams
• Building an "Agile Leadership" team to develop agility in the company
• Development of workshops to introduce Scrum/SAFe and sharpen the understanding of them

Approach/Methods:

• BPMN process visualization
• Stakeholder management
• Close collaboration with the internal Product Owners/Scrum Masters, daily sparring sessions

• Project management for the relocation of an international company in the production sector
• Coordination of funding applications
• Time/cost planning
• Support with various approval processes
• Creation of a ramp-up phase plan together with the responsible person

Approach/Methods:

• Stakeholder management
• Ongoing adjustments to the project plan

• Concept development for an inventory management system for the financial subsidiary of an insurance company
• Requirements analysis and management
• Refinement & change management
• Preparation of master data
• Development of end-to-end processes
• Interface management
• Coordination with various business units/stakeholders of the parent company
• Functional development of microservices in an SDA environment
• Creation of user stories
• Prioritization and versioning
• Coaching of the customer's Product Owner

Approach/Methods:

• Workshops with various stakeholders from the business units
• Development of the product vision & creation of an environmental analysis
• Documentation of requirements and processes in Jira/Confluence
• Maintenance of the product backlog/refinement
• Agile way of working according to Scrum

• Creation of a market analysis and development of sales strategies and sales fields
• Consulting on spinning off a project into a new company

Approach/Methods:

• Regular workshops
• Development of a Business Model Canvas

• Concept development for a vocational training platform
• Development of digitalization strategies for the vocational training sector
• Requirements management
• Concept development of the overall solution and release planning
• Overall project management (including budget planning/project controlling)
• Consulting on founding a joint venture incl. support in developing a business plan
• Development of a sales strategy

Approach/Methods:

• Customer workshops
• Development of a product vision
• Development of a market analysis
• Creation of the overall concept
• Maintenance of the product backlog/refinement
• Process analysis and visualization
• Project management based on Prince2
• Project audit of the development project