Curriculum Vitae
Yvonne Görlitz holds a doctorate in natural sciences with additional training in business management and has been advising IT organisations since 2000.
Dr. Görlitz's professional activities focus on the development of lean agile organisations and processes as well as change management. Within the scope of her activities, she is always responsible for projects with a strong focus on sustainable change in the client organisation. Dr. Görlitz is a Product Owner, Scrum Master and certified SAFe Practice Consultant for Dean Leffingwell's Scaled Agile Framework.
At KEGON AG, Dr Görlitz leads product development for agile processes and has been a board member since the beginning of 2018.
Knowledge and main topics
- Introduction of agile processes
- Organizational development for agile organizations and teams
- agile@enterprise™
- Value Stream Analysis
- Business Transformation
- Management of changes
- Economic efficiency considerations
- Communication management
- Process optimization
- Key figure systems and benchmarking
Project Experiences (Selection)
Various trainings and workshops at different customers, mostly focusing on the Scaled Agile Framework, Product Management and Organizational Development
Preparation and execution of standard trainings of Scaled Agile Inc., design, preparation and execution of customer specific trainings and workshops in the context of several SAFe Transformations.
Pharmaceutical service provider
- Analyzing the processes according to the principle of value stream mapping with a focus on delays in the value chain
- Summarizing the findings in a report with prioritized recommendations for action
- Capacity building and support for the transformation team and managers in dealing with change
- Methodological consulting
- Supporting the application and further development of agile working methods
- Anchoring a continuous learning culture and iterative improvement loops in the organization
- Setting up processes for scaling the agile organization and supporting implementation
State center (public client)
- Analysis of work processes and communication structures based on the value stream mapping method
- Creation of an interview guide
- Conducting interviews
- Summarizing the results into fields of action and recommending possible solutions and presenting them
International vehicle manufacturer (non passenger car)
- Accompanying the agile transformation, starting with the development organization for new large-capacity electric vehicles from kick-off to the first PI planning (4 ARTs with approx. 60-120 participants each) as SAFe coach and management consultant,
- Development of further Agile Release Trains
- Development of lean portfolio management instead of project organization
- Accompanying the transformation of the organizational structure from a classic to an agile organization and
- Coaching of the top management
Market leader Robotics systems - agile transformation of an entire organisation
- Planning and implementation of overall transformation and design of structures of Agile Release Trains and Value Streams
- Participation in the Enterprise Transformation Team
- Coaching C-Level
- Coaching Portfolio Level
- Conducting a company-wide prioritization workshop
Agile transformation of a specialist department of a company in the aviation industry
- Agile Coach / Management Consultant
- Analysis of the value stream for the department
- Development of a target picture for the organization incl. alternatives for team cut
- Design of the Agile Portfolio Management sense of the Scaled Agile Framework
- Planning of change management measures
- Concretization of the transformation roadmap and implementation of the next steps
Transition to an agile corporate culture in a bank
- Execution of diagnosis workshops to identify needs for action and activate employees
- Recommendation of measures to accompany agile transition
- Coaching of roles
Various workshops to convey agile basics for different customers in different industries
- Concept of workshops to convey content on Scrum and agile processes for different target groups and adapted to the respective customer context
- Analysis of processes by means of value stream analysis
- Execution of workshops to convey content and presentation of practical examples on the topics Scrum, Product Owner Ship, Agile Transformation for executives
Introduction of agile requirements and portfolio management for an IT service provider in the real estate and finance sector
- Project management and coaching
- New definition of requirements management in the sense of the Scaled Agile Framework
- Conception of the new procedure with the participants
- Iterative introduction of a new procedure model
- Development of a requirements backlog
- Introduction of new prioritisation methods and lightweight requirements documents