Dr. Yvonne Görlitz

Management Consultant

yvonne.goerlitz(at)kegon.de
Tel +49 611 20 50 80

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.

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