Organisational Agile Coach

I help continuously improve effectiveness of the large-scale, multi-team product development through the adaptation of the organizational system that drives a cultural shift towards Agility and ultimately serves strategic business goals

• Adapted People Management for Agile companies
• Agile Methodologie17 J.
• Agile transformation
• large-scale product development
• Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
• Organisation der Produktentwicklung12 J.
• Organisationsentwicklung12 J.
• Organizational Design
• Prof. assessment and development of Scrum Masters
• Scrum17 J.

Main motivation factor at work: I am driven by seeing the results of my efforts in more successful product companies, happier customers and employees.

Expertise Areas: organizational design for large-scale product development, Agile culture, self-management, team dysfunctions, Systems Thinking, Lean Thinking, value maximization, Adapted People Operations (incl. performance evaluation, rewards system, multi-skilled technical careers for developers), hiring and professional development of Scrum Masters, Scrum, LeSS, Kanban, XP.

Background: former Software Developer, Project Manager, Head PMO (PMP, Prince II).

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What I do:
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* Helping management understand that they can not change people but only the organizational design can create conditions in which people will change their behaviors; (My relevant article: -Hyperlink entfernt-)
* Helping management understand that the effectiveness of risk management (including risks types.) is the major driver of organizational design for product companies;
* Helping management identify the critical risks in the way towards the strategic business goals of the organization;
* Sharing expertise about critical risks which effective management can be enabled by the high organizational Agility and Optimization Goals of Agile product development; (My relevant article: -Hyperlink entfernt-)
* Helping management make an informed decision about their own Optimization Goals as the critical organizational characteristics necessary to effectively address the critical risks;
* Ensuring that management knows about Systems Thinking and effectively applies it in practice to learn the dynamics of their organizational system;
* Analyzing how the system actually works inside through interviewing people and observing actual work in teams, between teams, between roles, and other structural elements.
* Based on previous experiences and the learning within the organization - challenging the conclusions about cause-effect relations in the organizational system to minimize the risks of cognitive biases and suboptimal conclusions;
* Sharing own experience with various solutions in organizational design and their consequences;
* Ensuring that management knows how to effectively apply in practice the chosen Optimization Goals for alignment of all organizational decisions at all levels;
* Helping management make a qualified decision while choosing from Agile frameworks based on their consistency with the chosen Optimization Goals; sharing own experience with various frameworks and their consequences for various organizational characteristics;
* Helping with LeSS framework adoption, if it is chosen;
* Helping management and all roles in product fevelopment adopt an Agile mindset and a clear focus on customer value maximization; sharing own expertise about numerous relevant approaches and practices;
* Providing feedback to management from within the organizational system to reveal deficiencies of the org. design restraining the necessary cultural shift;
* Building high-performing teams by creating conditions in which they step out of their comfort zone of Forming stage, dive into Storming, and find a way from Norming to Performing;
* Revealing and causing the eradication of Team Dysfunctions within teams, between teams, between PO and teams - by revealing and addressing the root causes;
* Helping self-managing establish their perfection vision consistent with the Optimization Goals; helping them continuously improve towards that perfection vision;
* Helping with hiring, professional assessment, and development of Scrum Masters; (My relevant article: -Hyperlink entfernt-)
* Helping Product Managers / Product Owners grow professionally;
* Helping the company adapt its People Operations - such as performance assessment, professional development, career development, rewards system - to foster a necessary cultural shift towards teamwork and value maximization.

How I work:
* Mirror-holding
* Teaching and Mentoring
* Coaching and Facilitating
* Causing change and impediment removal