Insourcing einer Consumer-Website für die UK-Tochtergesellschaft mit einem verteilten Team in Essen, Hamburg, London und Nottingham.
Hauptaufgaben:
PROFILE:
Stefan is an experienced Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org, an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and Product Owner with excellent knowledge of software companies and an entrepreneurial mindset.
He is specializing in coaching agile practices for change, for example, agile software development with Scrum, LeSS, Kanban, and Lean Startup, as well as product management.
He also serves as one of the XSCALE Alliance stewards and coaches organizations in business agility. Additionally, he is a licensed facilitator of the Agile Fluency? Team Diagnostic.
He has served in senior leadership positions several times throughout his career. His agile coaching expertise focuses on scaling product delivery organizations of fast-growing, venture-capital funded startups, and transitioning existing product teams in established enterprise organizations.
Stefan is also curating a popular newsletter for the global Agile community with 22,000-plus subscribers. He blogs about his experiences on Age-of-Product.com and hosts the most significant global Slack community of agile practitioners with more than 5,400 members. His ebooks on agile topics have been downloaded more than 35,000 times. Lastly, Stefan is the organizer of the Agile Camp Berlin 2019, a Barcamp for 200-plus agile practitioners.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Global Technology Company
Agile Coach
September 2018 ? Mai 2019
Berlin, Germany. A freelancing assignment to support a platform team to become agile. Stefan also supported the agile transformation team at a company-wide level.
Dax-30 Energy Company
Agile Coach, Scrum Master
January 2017 ? September 2018
Essen, Germany. A freelancing assignment to support the creation of two internal E.ON applications for energy efficiency management. (B2B as well as B2C.)
Project scope:
Introducing agile methodologies to traditionally organized regional units
Build-up and coaching of three Scrum teams
Coaching of the product management team members in agile product discovery methods.
Improving stakeholders? communication with the product and engineering department by organizing multi-day product roadmap training workshops.
Movinga.de
Agile Coach, Scrum Master
July 2016 ? January 2017
Berlin, Germany. A freelancing assignment with the leading European marketplace for moving services.
Project scope:
Supporting the transition of the organization to agile methodologies
Build-up and coaching of four Scrum teams and a Kanban team
Coaching of the product management team members in agile product discovery methods.
Improving stakeholders? communication with the product and engineering de- partment.
Blacklane.com:
Agile Coach, Interim Head of Product
Januar 2015 ? Januar 2016
A freelancing assignment with the global leader in ground transportation for business transfers, Stefan is currently providing crucial support for Blacklane?s transition to agile methodologies. He has established five Scrum and Kanban teams at the company, coaches these teams regularly, and educates product managers throughout the company in Agile Product Discovery methods such as User Story Mapping, Rapid Prototyping, and User Interviews.
Here.com:
Senior Product Manager (Interim)
September 2014 ? December 2015
A freelancing assignment for Nokia?s maps division, formerly known as Navteq. The division provides maps to technology companies including Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, as well as to the majority of manufacturers in the automotive industry.
DailyDeal.de (A Google subsidiary from 2011-2013):
Senior Product Manager/Head of Product
July 2010 ? February 2014
Freelancing assignment as senior product manager for a Berlin-based B2C couponing site, that was a wholly ownedGooglesubsidiary from September 2011 to March 2013.
[URL available on request]:
Founder, CEO
January 2012 ? June 2013
Founder and CEO of [URL on request], a SaaS online-editor for e-books as well as personalized e-book-based product-catalogs for online retailers. (Currently, [Product name on request] is in talks to be acquired.)
[Organization name available on request]:
Founder, President
Mai 2010 ? Mai 2012
Founder and president of [Organization name on request]. The [Organization name on request] is a non-profit organization to further networking among Berlin-based technology startups. The [Organization name on request] has also been the organizing body of the Startup Camp Berlin conference since 2011. The 2014 conference was attended by 600+ attendees.
[Company name available on request]:
Founder, CEO
July 2007 ? July 2010
[Company name on request] was a multi-lingual marketplace for services focusing on small and medium-sized businesses (SMB).
Responsibilities: Product management, usability, project management for the development of the application (Scrum), category system development, QA & testing, finance, administration, legal & personnel, social media marketing (blog, Twitter), PR, customer support. The startup was forced out of business due to a legal dispute with Deutsche Telekom.
Qype.com (Acquired by Yelp.com in 2013):
Interim Manager (COO)
April 2006 ? Mai 2007
Responsibilities comprised of Finance (due diligence for seed rounds and VC Series A funding in June 2006), accounting, HR/personnel, product management, legal, sourcing, customer support, general administration.
Website:www.qype.com
Xplain, Hamburg (Acquired by PixelPark in 2007):
Project manager, key account manager
January 2005 ? April 2006
Key account and project-manager for a Hamburg-based online agency.
Responsibilities: Introduction of a new business forms management system at Netbank.de, the re-launch of the PR-site for DaimlerChrysler and the introduction of Microsoft CRM for internal agency purposes.
RKW NordWest w.V.:
Consultant
January 2002 ? December 2004
Consultant of the RKW NordWest wV (Hannover) for startup consulting and e-commerce in cooperation with local public bodies, e.g., Bundesanstalt für Arbeit (German unemployment agency) and Chambers of Commerce.
Open Market, Bad Homburg:
Key Account Sales Manager
January 2001 ? December 2001
Development of a sales and partner management concept (technology and system integration) for the then leading Enterprise Content Management software company ? NASDAQ-listed Open Market, Inc. ? in Germany.
Sabbatical: January 2000 ? December 2000
Metis GmbH, Berlin (Wholly owned subsidiary of KPMG Consulting):
Senior SAP Consultant, Business Development Manager
February 1999 ? December 1999
Identification and acquisition of a German-Turkish textile conglomerate as key cooperation partner for the SAP R/3 Apparel Footwear Solution model company on behalf of SAP. Conception of project schedule and staffing with business processes analyzed and documented in New York, Vienna, Istanbul, and Cologne.
Conception for a branch office in Istanbul submitted to KPMG Board.
Member of the development team of the SAP R/3 Apparel Footwear Solution at SAP Customer Solutions.
Deloitte Consulting GmbH, Heidelberg:
SAP Consultant
November 1998 ? January 1999
Quality assurance for SAP project: Establishing a bug tracking system and the corresponding hotline support for key-users of a construction and real estate management company before the going live with a major SAP project.
Siemens Business Solutions, Hamburg:
Trainee
February 1998 ? October 1998
Trainee for SAP R/3 Logistics (MM, SD, PP, ABAP/4). I am an SAP-certified consultant in the areas of both Material Management (MM) and Sales & Distribution (SD).
Ich bin Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) und bilde für Scrum.org Scrum Master und Product Owner aus.
Des Weiteren bin ich die letzten Jahre in Großunternehmen oder in schnell wachsenden, VC-finanzierten Softwareunternehmen mit Produktentwicklungsabteilungen von 25 bis 60 Mitarbeitern als Agile Coach, Scrum Master bzw. Head of Product tätig gewesen. (U.a. für eine Google-Tochtergesellschaft.)
Zu meinen Tätigkeiten gehören insbesondere Scrum-Schulungen, der Aufbau agiler Product Discovery- sowie Product Delivery-Prozesse auf Basis von Frameworks wie Scrum, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS®), Kanban, Lean Startup oder Lean UX. Desweiteren bin ich Facilitator der Agile Fluency® Diagnose.
Ich blogge regelmäßig über meine Erfahrungen und kuratiere den größten Branchennewsletter weltweit zum Thema Agile & Product mit über 25.000 Abonnenten.
Darüber hinaus organisiere ich das Agile Camp Berlin, veranstalte in Berlin Meetups und administriere eine Slack-Community mit über 7.000 Mitgliedern.
Insourcing einer Consumer-Website für die UK-Tochtergesellschaft mit einem verteilten Team in Essen, Hamburg, London und Nottingham.
Hauptaufgaben:
PROFILE:
Stefan is an experienced Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org, an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and Product Owner with excellent knowledge of software companies and an entrepreneurial mindset.
He is specializing in coaching agile practices for change, for example, agile software development with Scrum, LeSS, Kanban, and Lean Startup, as well as product management.
He also serves as one of the XSCALE Alliance stewards and coaches organizations in business agility. Additionally, he is a licensed facilitator of the Agile Fluency? Team Diagnostic.
He has served in senior leadership positions several times throughout his career. His agile coaching expertise focuses on scaling product delivery organizations of fast-growing, venture-capital funded startups, and transitioning existing product teams in established enterprise organizations.
Stefan is also curating a popular newsletter for the global Agile community with 22,000-plus subscribers. He blogs about his experiences on Age-of-Product.com and hosts the most significant global Slack community of agile practitioners with more than 5,400 members. His ebooks on agile topics have been downloaded more than 35,000 times. Lastly, Stefan is the organizer of the Agile Camp Berlin 2019, a Barcamp for 200-plus agile practitioners.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Global Technology Company
Agile Coach
September 2018 ? Mai 2019
Berlin, Germany. A freelancing assignment to support a platform team to become agile. Stefan also supported the agile transformation team at a company-wide level.
Dax-30 Energy Company
Agile Coach, Scrum Master
January 2017 ? September 2018
Essen, Germany. A freelancing assignment to support the creation of two internal E.ON applications for energy efficiency management. (B2B as well as B2C.)
Project scope:
Introducing agile methodologies to traditionally organized regional units
Build-up and coaching of three Scrum teams
Coaching of the product management team members in agile product discovery methods.
Improving stakeholders? communication with the product and engineering department by organizing multi-day product roadmap training workshops.
Movinga.de
Agile Coach, Scrum Master
July 2016 ? January 2017
Berlin, Germany. A freelancing assignment with the leading European marketplace for moving services.
Project scope:
Supporting the transition of the organization to agile methodologies
Build-up and coaching of four Scrum teams and a Kanban team
Coaching of the product management team members in agile product discovery methods.
Improving stakeholders? communication with the product and engineering de- partment.
Blacklane.com:
Agile Coach, Interim Head of Product
Januar 2015 ? Januar 2016
A freelancing assignment with the global leader in ground transportation for business transfers, Stefan is currently providing crucial support for Blacklane?s transition to agile methodologies. He has established five Scrum and Kanban teams at the company, coaches these teams regularly, and educates product managers throughout the company in Agile Product Discovery methods such as User Story Mapping, Rapid Prototyping, and User Interviews.
Here.com:
Senior Product Manager (Interim)
September 2014 ? December 2015
A freelancing assignment for Nokia?s maps division, formerly known as Navteq. The division provides maps to technology companies including Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, as well as to the majority of manufacturers in the automotive industry.
DailyDeal.de (A Google subsidiary from 2011-2013):
Senior Product Manager/Head of Product
July 2010 ? February 2014
Freelancing assignment as senior product manager for a Berlin-based B2C couponing site, that was a wholly ownedGooglesubsidiary from September 2011 to March 2013.
[URL available on request]:
Founder, CEO
January 2012 ? June 2013
Founder and CEO of [URL on request], a SaaS online-editor for e-books as well as personalized e-book-based product-catalogs for online retailers. (Currently, [Product name on request] is in talks to be acquired.)
[Organization name available on request]:
Founder, President
Mai 2010 ? Mai 2012
Founder and president of [Organization name on request]. The [Organization name on request] is a non-profit organization to further networking among Berlin-based technology startups. The [Organization name on request] has also been the organizing body of the Startup Camp Berlin conference since 2011. The 2014 conference was attended by 600+ attendees.
[Company name available on request]:
Founder, CEO
July 2007 ? July 2010
[Company name on request] was a multi-lingual marketplace for services focusing on small and medium-sized businesses (SMB).
Responsibilities: Product management, usability, project management for the development of the application (Scrum), category system development, QA & testing, finance, administration, legal & personnel, social media marketing (blog, Twitter), PR, customer support. The startup was forced out of business due to a legal dispute with Deutsche Telekom.
Qype.com (Acquired by Yelp.com in 2013):
Interim Manager (COO)
April 2006 ? Mai 2007
Responsibilities comprised of Finance (due diligence for seed rounds and VC Series A funding in June 2006), accounting, HR/personnel, product management, legal, sourcing, customer support, general administration.
Website:www.qype.com
Xplain, Hamburg (Acquired by PixelPark in 2007):
Project manager, key account manager
January 2005 ? April 2006
Key account and project-manager for a Hamburg-based online agency.
Responsibilities: Introduction of a new business forms management system at Netbank.de, the re-launch of the PR-site for DaimlerChrysler and the introduction of Microsoft CRM for internal agency purposes.
RKW NordWest w.V.:
Consultant
January 2002 ? December 2004
Consultant of the RKW NordWest wV (Hannover) for startup consulting and e-commerce in cooperation with local public bodies, e.g., Bundesanstalt für Arbeit (German unemployment agency) and Chambers of Commerce.
Open Market, Bad Homburg:
Key Account Sales Manager
January 2001 ? December 2001
Development of a sales and partner management concept (technology and system integration) for the then leading Enterprise Content Management software company ? NASDAQ-listed Open Market, Inc. ? in Germany.
Sabbatical: January 2000 ? December 2000
Metis GmbH, Berlin (Wholly owned subsidiary of KPMG Consulting):
Senior SAP Consultant, Business Development Manager
February 1999 ? December 1999
Identification and acquisition of a German-Turkish textile conglomerate as key cooperation partner for the SAP R/3 Apparel Footwear Solution model company on behalf of SAP. Conception of project schedule and staffing with business processes analyzed and documented in New York, Vienna, Istanbul, and Cologne.
Conception for a branch office in Istanbul submitted to KPMG Board.
Member of the development team of the SAP R/3 Apparel Footwear Solution at SAP Customer Solutions.
Deloitte Consulting GmbH, Heidelberg:
SAP Consultant
November 1998 ? January 1999
Quality assurance for SAP project: Establishing a bug tracking system and the corresponding hotline support for key-users of a construction and real estate management company before the going live with a major SAP project.
Siemens Business Solutions, Hamburg:
Trainee
February 1998 ? October 1998
Trainee for SAP R/3 Logistics (MM, SD, PP, ABAP/4). I am an SAP-certified consultant in the areas of both Material Management (MM) and Sales & Distribution (SD).
Ich bin Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) und bilde für Scrum.org Scrum Master und Product Owner aus.
Des Weiteren bin ich die letzten Jahre in Großunternehmen oder in schnell wachsenden, VC-finanzierten Softwareunternehmen mit Produktentwicklungsabteilungen von 25 bis 60 Mitarbeitern als Agile Coach, Scrum Master bzw. Head of Product tätig gewesen. (U.a. für eine Google-Tochtergesellschaft.)
Zu meinen Tätigkeiten gehören insbesondere Scrum-Schulungen, der Aufbau agiler Product Discovery- sowie Product Delivery-Prozesse auf Basis von Frameworks wie Scrum, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS®), Kanban, Lean Startup oder Lean UX. Desweiteren bin ich Facilitator der Agile Fluency® Diagnose.
Ich blogge regelmäßig über meine Erfahrungen und kuratiere den größten Branchennewsletter weltweit zum Thema Agile & Product mit über 25.000 Abonnenten.
Darüber hinaus organisiere ich das Agile Camp Berlin, veranstalte in Berlin Meetups und administriere eine Slack-Community mit über 7.000 Mitgliedern.
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