Curriculum Vitae
After studying information design, Johannes Kling began his professional career as a project manager and business analyst. He worked for an engineering service provider, as well as in the insurance industry and medical technology, and worked in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Since 2014, Johannes has been concentrating on agile approaches. He has taken on the roles of Product Owner, Scrum Master and Release Train Engineer, among others. Johannes Kling has been a SAFe® Practice Consultant since 2016. He shares his practical experience with Lean-Agile approaches at team level and in scaled agility as an Agile Coach, Trainer and Organizational Consultant.
Skills and main topics
- Agile Transformation
- Training and Lean-Agile Coaching
- (Team Level and Scaled Agile with e.g. SAFe®, LeSS, Nexus, Scrum@Scale etc.)
- Alternative organizational forms (Sociocracy 3.0, Collegial Leadership, unFIX, ...)
- Lean Portfolio Management
- Business Analysis
- Project Management (traditional and Agile)
- Leadership Coaching
Project experiences (selection)
Various trainings and workshops with different customers
Since beginning of 2016 preparation and delivery of SAFe® standard trainings and own trainings on Scrum and Agile, conception, preparation and delivery of customer specific trainings and workshops in the context of several agile transformation
ERP-Entwickler – Agiles Team of Teams
- Agile Coach and Scrum Master
- Advising key roles
- Set up a team of five agile, interdisciplinary teams with the corresponding roles, artifacts and events according to agile and lean principles
- Coaching der Teams
- Consultancy
Bank – Agile Transformation
- Training key roles (especially RTE) and teams in agile methodologies
- Implementation of Value Stream & ART Identification Workshops
- Workshops to identify measures for the further development of the organization
- Consultancy
Machine manufacturer - Launch of an Agile Release Train
- Training of teams in agile methods
- Coaching of Scrum Masters and Product Owners on ART and team level
- Support in preparing the ART and the first PI Planning
- Management consulting
Pharmaceutical company – adoption of agile approaches in marketing
- Training of teams in agile methods
- Coaching of Scrum Masters and Product Owners
- Management consulting
Major German bank during the transformation to a digital tech company
- Execution of agile formats for several teams at distributed locations in different time periods
- Coaching of the teams in agile topics such as Backlog Refinement, Definition of Ready/Definition of Done, T-Shaping etc.
- Onboarding of new employees (internal/external) with regard to agile methods
- Coaching of teams regarding cross-team work (following SAFe®, LESS etc)
- Developing and implementing metrics
- Supporting the teams in the use of Atlassian Confluence & Jira
- Support of other Scrum Masters
Agile Coach at a passenger transport service company
- Agile coaching on the team and team-of-teams/program levels
- Consulting of key people (department managers, budget controllers, product owners)
- Process design and change management
- Facilitation of regular cross-team events for synchronization, reviews and continuous improvement
- Consulting and support for the implementation of KPI and appropriate metrics
Agile coach for the Agile transformation of the manufacturer of a smart home solution
- Coaching of a first interdisciplinary distributed team
- Consulting of CEO and CTO
- Scrum trainings
- Coaching of key people (e.g. Scrum Master and Product Owner)
- Introduction of Lean Portfolio Management
- Training of the WSJF method
Agile Coach during the Agile Transformation of a telecommunication service provider
Lean/Agile coaching on the team and team-of-teams/program levels
Transformation of teams and projects/Agile release trains in different value chains
Conducting trainings and consulting and coaching of key people (e.g. Scrum Master and Product Owner, project and line managers, partly intercultural between Switzerland/China)
Partial temporary assumption of the Scrum Master role
Management and coordination of a consulting team