Curriculum Vitae
Ilka Troeschel completed her studies in computer science in Dresden at the Technical University. She has gained her professional experience both in the corporate environment and in medium-sized companies as a Consultant, Practice and Project Manager, RTE and in various management positions.
In the last few years, Ilka Tröschel has worked as Agile Coach, Agile Leader, RTE and CIO. In the various roles, she supported the organization in the change process to align product development closer to customer needs and to improve the customer experience. Designing working environments which focus to the customer and employees have fun is an essential glue to her. She likes to combine her knowledge and experience from classic, agile and lean approaches to create solutions that fit the organization and move a company forward.
Knowledge and key topics
- Agile Transformation
- Transition and Change-Management
- Organisational Design and Development
- Training and Coaching
Training and Project experience (selection)
Various trainings and workshops at different customers
Preparation and delivery of SAFe® standard trainings and own trainings on Scrum and agility, conception, preparation and delivery of customer-specific trainings and workshops in the context of several agile transformations.
Manager and agile coach with expertise in agile transformations
- Organizational development and systemic thinking: Design and further development of agile organizations
- Structural and cultural analysis: identifying potential for improvement
- Process design and change management: Supporting change processes and introducing new ways of working
- Learning cycles: Continuous optimization in short iterations
- Training and coaching: teaching lean and agile methods
- Measuring success: introducing meaningful metrics and indicators
- Management coaching: Developing agile leadership skills
- Preparation and moderation of large group events: Big room planning, executive workshops, customer and partner events etc.
Consultant and program manager with expertise in the classic project environment
- Development of demand and delivery organizations: Consulting, conception and development of portfolio and program management in the IT service provider, logistics and real estate sectors
- Program management: Successful management of complex programs with several sub-projects and teams in the logistics sector
- Project management: Planning, control and completion of projects of various sizes and in various sectors, e.g. for group purchasing, logistics and distribution centers, implementation and operation of internet portals, outsourcing of corporate divisions
- Change management: accompanying change processes and supporting employees in adapting to new requirements
- Business unit development: Full-service e-commerce from strategy to processing with customers
ERP & PLM Migration - Project
- Assist in building the Agile Release Train & the LACE Team
- SAFe® Trainer, Agile Coach and Management Consultant
Support Agile Transformation Team – Automotive
- Development of a department wide structure and culture analysis
- Building understanding for organisational development and systemic thinking
- building the change backlog at division level for a continuous scaled
- Training and coaching Lean and Agile methods and ways of working
- Mentoring RTE
Agile Coach in a major German bank during the transformation to a digital tech company
- training and coaching lean and agile methods and practices
- training internal staff as multipliers for the improvement of the Development Value Stream, DevOps, Agile QM and QA, XP-Practices (Train the Trainer)
- building the change backlog at division level and establishing a continuous scaled transformation backlog
- mentoring and coaching Cluster and Chapter Leads, Scrum Master and Product Owner
- preparation and facilitation of various workshops: purpose, agile roles, frameworks, methods, practices, team topology, refinements, retrospectives and team building
- building understanding for organizational development and systemic thinking with Leaders and employees
SAFe Transformation – Assurance company
- classic tasks of a RTE
- introduction of metrics and PI objectives
- establishing of a continuous improvement process, setting up a change backlog and supporting ART-wide experiments
- supporting and moderating team topology workshops
- introduction of agile approaches and tools to support decentralized decision making
- coaching and mentoring executives to becoming Agile Leaders
Agile transformation: product development car and bike sharing provider
- Agile Leader - disciplinary superior, advisor and coach of the employees
- RTE
o Chief Scrum Master, coaching at all levels of the company, especially
programme-Level
o Training and coaching Program and team level
o Process design and change management
o Definition and introduction of indicators for performance improvements
o Reporting to the management and the management team - CIO - Overall responsibility for the IT area (development, support, operation)
Software product development for tax consultants - Agile Transformation
- Head of the Application Lifecycle Management department
- Moderation and impetus for the joint development of a mission and vision for the area
- Development of a common backlog and introduction of comprehensive agile events
- Revision of the release process
- Definition of a comprehensive product planning and control process from portfolio management to management at team level
Software product development for e-commerce solutions
- Product development manager
- Release Train Engineer
- Adaptation of business processes of the eCommerce solution to market requirements
- Setting up new development processes
- Expansion of an Omni-Channel solution