Ursula H.-Product Owner | Scrum Master | Finance Expert

Sub-project lead in an agile IT environment

Leading a software development team (10 employees)

• Leading a software development team with 10 employees
• Budget responsibility approx. 3 million euros per year
• Conducting employee and job interviews
• Responsibility for resource planning (budget and employees)
• Digitalization of a web interface
• Regular reporting to customers and stakeholders (C-level)
• Product management: developing and implementing product strategies; defining requirements to guide product development
• Structuring product development & continuous testing efficiently to quickly incorporate feedback & compliance points
• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, set priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Project experience in an energy industry company, including the functioning of energy markets, the basics of energy generation and distribution, as well as current challenges and developments in the industry
• Project experience in the railway sector - including the structure and operation of railway systems.
• Project experience within the 16.7 Hz traction power sector incl. knowledge of regulatory processes
• Formulating the sub-project charter and the project profile according to the project standard together with the project management
• Controlling service delivery according to the project charter
• Planning and controlling human resources including budget planning for the sub-project
• Ensuring the work capacity of the sub-project participants, e.g. by requesting access rights and documents for the sub-project team
• Planning and control for the respective sub-project (time, scope, budget) including the creation of necessary documents
• Alignment with the business department and Product Owners to plan the sub-project scope and the corresponding implications
• Executing milestone planning according to the agreed process model
• Effort estimation and support of sub-project controlling as well as overall project controlling in forecasting and planning
• Reporting sub-project status (according to status slide template) including progress (according to progress measurement)
• Analyzing, preparing, and addressing action and decision requirements
• Escalating sub-project issues to the project management
• Creating and managing Change Requests (CR)
• Quality assessment of completed task packages from a project management perspective (time, scope, and budget)
• Implementation management of the overarching guidelines and requirements in the sub-project, supported by cross-functional roles on the functional and technical side.
• Identifying, managing, documenting, and communicating opportunities, risks, and dependencies within and across sub-projects
• Supporting project management in creating the overall project plan and overall status reports
• Preparing and managing commissioning including the required documents and protection needs assessment

Scrum Master in an agile IT environment supporting a software development team in the full-stack area (7 people)

• Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, set priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
• Implementation of the selected Scrum method, including the required events, meetings, artifacts (product backlog, sprint backlog, burndown charts), metrics, as well as conducting required training in an agile IT environment
• Preparation of Scrum events such as Daily, retrospectives, Review, Sprint planning, estimation, and refinement (agile way of working)
• Moderation of retrospectives and elimination of obstacles to move the team and product forward
• Preparation of action items and retros via whiteboard and Figma
• Application and improvement of agile methods such as Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, or Scrum of Scrums
• Tracking the "Definition of Done" and "Definition of Ready" for all work results of the development team
• Advising on information flow and communication improvements between Product Owner and project team
• Experience with automation, validation such as mandatory field checks, notification functions, creation of filters, boards, and reports via JQL, and setting up cycle time
• Use of Jira & Confluence
• Setting up a progress measurement for project management to transparently map planned vs. actual team capacities and actual efforts for user stories
• Measuring team progress: creating team KPIs: "velocity", "burn-down chart", "throughput", "costs", "quality", "scope"
• Evaluation of agile metrics, process management, and process modeling methods (BPMN, EPC, UML)
• Communication and moderation know-how
• Methodological competence proven in conflict discussions

• Training of Scrum workshops and design of Scrum events by transferring the structure and framework of Scrum to the financial education sector (Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Excel, PPT)
• Acquisition of companies that offer their employees educational workshops using their individual training budgets
• Development of an own homepage using Wordpress and HTML
• Creation of informational material for the agile workshops
• Development of a workshop guide to scale Finanz-Helfer
• Creation of Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok posts with corresponding design and content (Figma)
• Communication and moderation know-how, methodological competence
• Elaborating the asset building concept of a company
• Conducting several workshops in Munich + online
• Trading & Agile Helfer for experts (4 people)
• Since 2022: Lecturer for Investment and Finance at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich (Master's program)

Product Management

• Responsibility for the plausibility checks and validation of FX options and IRS, credit derivatives, structured products
• Efficiency improvement, e.g., through automation of IT processes
• Management and knowledge input for a new trading system requiring both hardware and software components
• Product Owner: digitalization of payment processes such as incoming and outgoing invoices, payment processing
• Writing user stories and visualizing the roadmap
• Increasing process efficiency: setting up the IT architecture to increase the degree of automation in process and project management tools (Jira, Confluence, Miro)
• Leading a team of 10 software engineers
• Contact person for informational visits and organizing functional training within the unit. Agile Coach for experts (2 people)
• To meet time and budget targets: managing resources and setting milestones (team size of 10 people).

Venture Capital

• Research of investment requests regarding seed and growth capital, (private equity, venture capital), real estate, and other assets
• Support in calculating key figures and valuations based on balance sheets (DCF, multiples, CAPM)
• Networking at investor conferences across Europe (Pirate Summit, DLD, Bits & Pretzels, Web Summit, Mobile World Congress)
• Acquisition of potential start-ups; leading meetings with the management team and overseeing the development and presentation of ideas and strategies (roll-out)
• Research and process handling for participation in funding programs and evaluation of MVPs (99chairs, Amorelie)
• Review of personal traits, ideas, and strategies (roll-out)
• Examination and evaluation of information (due diligence)
• Deal research (approx. 500 p. a.) in areas such as automotive, e-commerce, eHealth, SaaS, IoT - financial data via SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• Implementation of accounting systems in start-ups via SAP (ERP)
• Assessment of management qualities, markets, ideas, and processes
• Leading (contract) negotiations (Amorelie)
• Onboarding of interns and working students to introduce them to pitches and business plans, contract structures: term sheet, LOI, liquidation preference, drag-along, tag-along, vesting, anti-dilution,
• Driving compliance with agreed agile processes, definitions, and methods (team sizes between 5-80 people).