Curriculum Vitae
Kurt Jäger has been working as a software engineer for 40 years. More than 10 years as a developer, architect, project and team leader and product manager at Software AG. Then another decade as head of development at TONBELLER AG; in this role also responsible for the product management team. From 2008-2010, he introduced Scrum company-wide. As a business field manager and agile coach, he helped customers of andrena objects ag to become agile. Since 2013, he has been an agile management consultant and partner at KEGON AG. He is a certified Scrum Master, SAFe Practice Consultant Trainer (SPCT), and Certified Profit Streams™ Trainer (CPS-T).
Over the past 15 years, he has advised and accompanied agile transitions at Audi, Berner Kantonalbank, BMW, Bosch, Commerzbank, CompuGroup Medical, Continental, CosmosDirekt, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Bundesbank, ECB, FUJITSU, Generali, GfK, Uniqa, Janssen, Porsche, Rewe, Roche, SBB, Schufa, SAG, SAP, Siemens, Société Générale and VW/CARIAD.
Knowledge and main topics
- Agile & Lean Organizational development
- Portfolio Management
- Value Stream Management
- Profit Stream Optimization
- Scaling Agile: SAFe, Less Nexus et.al.
- Lean Process Optimization e.g. Flight Levels
- Business Assessments
- Scrum & Kanban Coaching
- Requirements Engineering
- DevOps
- Interim Management
Training and Project experience (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.
Advice to the CFO Audi HU VW CN
- Individual training on agile and lean mindset and methods
- Golden Circle Why What How
- Effects on Lean Portfolio Management
- Capex/Opex
- Control and decision-making options for a CFO
SAFe workshops for the ECB's Digital Euro Programme
- Individual SAFe training for the ECB's Programme Management
- Individual SAFe training for the coalition (ECB and NCBs)
Advising the IT department of an international specialty chemicals company
- Training of team leaders on a common prioritized list of requirements.
- Coaching of an agile requirements process
- Coaching of a SAFe PI planning with 2-week Scrum iterations
- Introduction of an I&A workshop
- Risk Management
- Establishing an RTE
Value Stream Identification Workshops bei Audi Big Data
- Value Stream Identification Workshops
SAFe implementation at Audi H2R
- Coaching of five internal method managers of the company
- Development of a transition roadmap with the method managers
- Conducting preparatory management briefings on SAFe implementation
- Team self-assessments (SAFe Measure & Grow workshops) and retrospectives with teams to get a baseline and derive improvement measures for the change backlog
- SAFe Value Stream Identification Workshops (Identifikation von Operational Value Streams und Development Value Streams)
- LPM Trining to connect the H2R Train to the company's budget
- Generating training nuggets in the form of videos
Introduction of agile methods at Audi HU in Győr
- Workshops in IT management to teach Lean Agile methods
- Coaching in prioritizing an IT portfolio
- Setting up a project KANBAN board
- Workshops to find agile autonomous teams that are aligned with value creation.
Training of the heads of division of the Deutsche Bundesbank
- Develop individual training for DBB division managers
- Piloting and delivering the training
- Training of DBB employees for this training
Advising the Group Master Data Governance Program
- Consulting in the organization of sponsors and suppliers in agile teams
- Agile cross-functional team cuts
- Consulting on capacity allocation in team and train (feature, enabler, maintenace)
- SAP Delivery Excellence und SAFe Rollen
- RTE ART Readiness to Steer Transformation
- PM has a good requirements backlog
- BO training for the train's stakeholders
Advising an Austrian insurance company on the SAFe transformation
- SAFe4Architects Training, LPM-Training, SPC-Training
- Advising the Board of Directors and IT Management on Value Streams
- Advising the LPM also on the requirements process
- Revision of the PM and RTE roles
- Assessment of teams, trains and management
- Integration of the agile organization into Uniqa's line processes
Decision preparation SAFe Transformation for toom Baumarkt GmbH
Advising management on realignment of initial SAFe implementation.
- Leading SAFe trainings with assessment
- Value Stream Identification Workshop
Advising the management and the strategy & innovation management
Basic training for management and directors of Janssen Germany
- Management integration
- Scrum pilot project
- Value Stream Identification Workshop
- Concepts for agile marketing and agile sales
Advising the management and the LACE team of FUJITSU Germany
Basic training for all FUJITSU executives in Germany..
- Management and line integration
- Scrum and SAFe pilot projects
- Value Stream Identification Work Shops
- SAFe Train Setup support
Advisory of the LACE team of CARIAD
Consulting of the central LACE HUB e.g. on
- Consulting of the central LACE HUB e.g. on
- Business Owners and line integration
- Agile hardware development
- Portfolio Management and Financial Control
- Cross-Solution Management
- Value Stream Management
- OKR utilization
Agile coaching of the Catena-X project
Coordination of 4 consultants (SPCs) who each coached SAFe Trains and their RTE's and proposed Lean Portfolio Management
Valuestream Workshop and Agile Basics for WS Audiology Denmark A/S
- Assessment and execution of a Value Stream Workshop according to SAFe
- Teaching Agiles basics to middle management
Assessment of the portfolio of the Cantonal Bank of Bern
- Analysis of the Lean Portfolio implementation at Berner Kantonalbank
- Assessment and suggestions for improvement for the further development of the portfolio
Agile consulting of the IT-SEC department at AUDI
- Analysis of the department and consulting of the team leaders for team cut and introduction of Kanban and Lean methods
- Introduction of a Kanban system from portfolio to teams
- Various trainings, workshops and consulting activities department and team management as well as consulting of individual teams
SAFe introduction at Siemens AG Smart Infrastructure Digital Grid worldwide
- Implementation of SAFe for a first Agile Release Train in development. Consulting for the integration of the train and the extension to SAFe in the business unit.
- Various trainings, workshops and consulting with top and middle management
SAFe introduction at the Nürnberger Insurance
- Various workshops with the management of the bank on SAFe and its possibilities
- Implementation of a SAFe4Executives workshop for the board
- Value stream workshop for determining the train cut
Introduction of Lean Portfolio Management at AUDI
- SAFe Lean Portfolio Management Workshop
- Coaching
o Summarize features into epics
o Derive new epics from strategic themes using portfolio canvas
o Set up a portfolio Kanban
o Change in the meeting structure and decision-making processes in management
Introduction of group-wide SAFe conform Lean Portfolio Management at Commerzbank
- LPM Workshop & Q&A
- Coaching of portfolio group strategy and finance to set up an organization and processes for portfolio management
Development of an Agile Software product house at Meine Gesundheit GmbH
- Workshops on the cooperation model of the participating companies
- Introduction of Agile Product Management
- Definition of Portfolio SAFe as cooperation model
- Training and coaching of the participants
- Top management workshop for the board members of the participating companies for the strategic orientation and control
Advising the IT of Porsche Sales on Agile Lean and SAFe
- Presentation of SAFe
- Workshop definition of the team cut
- Workshop on the definition of a backlog
Company-wide introduction of SAFe at Siemens Healthineers
- Overall responsibility for the customer project
- Coordination of the LACE Team
- Lectures and organization of speakers
- Agile management workshops for the BUs
- Coaching of the employees of a software ART
- Implementation of a train the trainer concept
- Various SAFe trainings and workshops
Advisor to the Audi sales department
- Training for PO's & SM's
- Product management and marketing line management
- Coaching of HR & purchasing
Facilitation of a Value Stream Workshop to define an ART at Bosch
- Training and moderation
Coaching the use of SAFe for the central platform of a globally operating Big Data company
- International Train from D, GB, E & India
- Training of an agile Release Train consisting of 70 employees
- Moderation of the Big Planning Meetings
- Moderation of the I&A Meetings
- Coaching of the Requirements Engineering's for Portfolio and Program Backlogs
Management consulting in the introduction of SAFe in a large German logistics company
- Workshops zu Leading SAFe und SAFe 4 Executives
- Concept/Offer for the Introduction of a SAFe Pilot with Training and Coaching
Introduction of SAFe in a program at Audi
- Coaching of the program leader/RTE's/PM
- Introduction of SAFe
- Moderation and coaching of the PI-Meetings
- Support during the I&A meetings
Coaching SAFe Transformation of Generali Germany
- Consulting of the LACE team
- Consulting of various Agile Release Trains RTE's
- Standard SAFe trainings
Accompaniment of R+V in an agile transition
- Agile Workshop elaborated and carried out (to date 10% of all employees)
- Agilisation of the largest program of the insurance company with approx. 200 FTE's
- Coaching at Portfolio Backlog creation for all areas of insurance
- Coaching of the business consultants and various specialist areas of insurance
Consulting the IT of Germany's largest food company on the agile orientation
- Presentation of SAFe
- Analysis and improvement of the requirements engineering process
- Coaching of various agile process optimizations in a direct insurance workshop with IT
- Area managers of direct insurance