Scrum Masters in Munich

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

• Responsible for introducing agile methods within the Interface & Integration Team (2 Scrum Teams)
• Planning and delivering trainings in agile methods
• Facilitating workshops and Scrum events
• Removing impediments
• Increasing sprint performance

• Build an AI product end-to-end, hands-on across the full delivery cycle so I stay current on how software teams actually work: modern development, CI/CD, and shipping to production.

• Promoting a leadership culture
• Building structures for the agile teams
• Training the mindset for a product-centered way of working
• Establishing a Definition of Done
• Embedding team responsibility
• Using ConceptBoard as a tool for workshops, retrospectives, and training

• Guided a large-scale agile transformation, improving team agility, DevOps adoption, and cloud readiness.
• Supported DevOps & CI/CD practices to optimize cloud deployment strategies and reduce time-to-market.
• Led agile coaching initiatives to enhance cross-functional collaboration between IT and business teams.
• designed agile governance structures to align executive leadership with cloud and digital transformation goals.
• Technologies & Frameworks: Agile (Scrum, SAFe), DevOps, Cloud Adoption, IT Governance, CI/CD, Change Management

• Guiding and coaching clients in introducing agile methods (Scrum, Kanban) to optimize processes and team collaboration
• Ensuring the continuous development of agile collaboration models and the agile mindset through targeted measures and retrospectives
• Introducing KPIs to measure team velocity, quality of user stories, and deliverables for data-driven project management
• Designing and implementing dashboards for real-time transparency of work processes
• Removing operational impediments and representing the team's interests to ensure a smooth workflow
• Designing and implementing efficient risk and requirements management processes to identify bottlenecks early
• Building and maintaining internal knowledge platforms (blog, newsletter, internal academy) for sustainable information retention and sharing
• Preparing, facilitating, and conducting agile meetings/workshops (retrospectives, reviews, refinements) for continuous improvement of collaboration
• Serving as the interface between business and IT departments to align agile initiatives with strategic goals
• Mentoring new employees and conducting training on agile best practices, especially Jira and Confluence
• Leading the internal AI initiative to explore AI-driven process automations

• Participated in the Riyadh Public Transport (KAPT) project introducing public transportation in Riyadh, supporting multimodal journeys combining bus, metro, car on demand.
• Worked via Thiqah and partnered with Andersen to refactor the mobile MaaS application DARB into a new microservices architecture under SCRUM framework, successfully completing Phase 1.
• Facilitated a team of 40 developers across Android, iOS, Web, Java, DevOps, architecture, analysis, and QA.
• Moderated Scrum events and communicated with the client, proactively reporting on project deadlines, scope, and challenges.
• Coordinated cross-team efforts between Thiqah specialists and GPS development teams, managing Jira and Azure DevOps trackers.
• Supported and improved Scrum processes throughout the project.
• Due to Thiqah’s takeover by Elm, subsequent phases were handled entirely in Saudi Arabia with GPS providing IT consulting.
• Tools: Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Draw.IO, ChatGPT

• PO/PM for digital products such as Search, Recommendations & AI (IR/ML)-related projects, Knowledge and Document Management Systems, and Search with LLMs, RAG, and Knowledge Graphs
• Agile evangelist helping people, teams, and organizations work in an agile way

• Customer discovery and product-market fit validation for an AI tutoring platform
• MVP experiments: customer interviews, landing page tests
• Entrepreneurship training: product-market fit, go-to-market strategy

• Agile coaching at BMW – 8 coaching projects

• Advised BMW department on introducing agile software development

• Coaching product owners, Scrum Masters, managers and teams

• Trainer for product owner workshops

• Consulting firm project (Jan 2017 to present): Steadforce was the main partner in developing products that consultants used on client sites

• As Scrum Master, supported scaling the project from six developers to three distributed Scrum teams with developers in Germany, Poland, Romania and Ukraine as well as stakeholders in Germany, US and India

• Agile values evangelist

• Organizing Scrum meetings

• Facilitating retrospectives

• Co-organizing team workshops

• Working on code quality and test coverage for almost daily releases

• UMS at BMW (Sept 2016 to present): Scrum Master for a team of 3 software developers

• Organizing Scrum meetings and collaborating in Jira with the product owner at the client for agile fixed-price billing (payment based on t-shirt sizing)

• Steadforce Campus: Redefining software development processes at Steadforce with a focus on clean code, code reviews and Scrum

• Agile Coach and Scrum Master in the Baykom project
• Coaching the PO and the team
• Reorganization of previous processes with noticeable performance improvement (no statistics yet due to the few sprints, only feedback from the team and from the PO with their supervisor)

Streamline – implementation of S/4 HANA Utilities in cooperation with Accenture

• Consulting and coaching of program management (OPL)

• Planning and support in executing all organizational and system technical activities to migrate from SAP IS-U to SAP S/4 HANA Utilities

• Communication and coordination with involved stakeholders and committees (core team, program management, steering committee)

• Project and process management

• Coaching of the stream leads in the main project

• Requirements management for interface connection of ancillary systems (non-SAP systems)

• Risk management

• Resource and capacity planning

• Consulting the existing migration, test, interface/ancillary system, and training teams

• Consulting on managing the SAP systems cut-over

• Planning and management including necessary post-migration activities (e.g., verification, documentation, adjustments)

• Team coaching & servant leadership: supporting one or more Scrum teams as coach, facilitator, and servant leader

• Promoting self-organization, personal responsibility, and continuous improvement

• Facilitation and continuous improvement of Scrum events (daily, planning, review, retrospective)

• Ensuring adherence to Scrum values, principles, and practices

• Identifying and actively managing impediments to ensure team productivity

• Working with product owners, agile coaches, and leaders to resolve structural hurdles

• Supporting agile scaling in frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Nexus

• Co-designing agile transitions as part of MVV's digital strategy

• Building an agile mindset in the organization through training, workshops, and active role modeling of agile principles

• Collaborating with other Scrum Masters and agile coaches in the company-wide agile chapter

• IT systems: ERP: SAP IS-U, SAP S/4 HANA Utilities

• Led the largest agile project at Telefonica O2 (€21+ million, 11 Scrum & system teams in Germany and India, 80+ developers, 3 vendors) using SAFe, Scrum and Kanban. A showcase project at Telefonica for agile scaling.
• Scaled agile processes to a large project using SAFe.
• Delivered the project at half the cost and time compared to similar projects.
• Test management / coordination of system testing.
• Coached teams (SAFe & Scrum).
• Rollout planning/management.