Curriculum Vitae
Rick has a degree in computer science and is certified SAFe SPC5, APM5 and RTE5.
Rick's experience with agile software development dates back to the year 2002.
As SPC he has successfully launched several ARTs and supported many product and line managers in SAFe and DevOps transformations.
He has coached nearly forty Scrum and Kanban teams and trained over six hundred students in agility.
Before his time as a coach, he worked as a software developer, software architect and project manager and has managed scaled and distributed development mandates himself.
Knowledge and main topics
- Agile Coaching
- Lean-agile transformation
- Scaling Agility
- BizDevOps and Continuous Delivery
- Distributed development
- Leading development teams
Project Experiences (Selection)
Lean-Agile Portfolio Management for Group Services
- Moderation initial prioritization according to ROI and cost-of-delay classes
- Set up initial kanban
- Moderation Portfolio Sync Meeting
- Design of rolling SWAG-based resource planning
Introduction of Kanban at the Swiss National Bank
- Structure of the physical Kanban boards
- Monitoring of the introduction
- Coaching of the division manager
- Moderation Retrospectives
- Introduction of replenishment and prioritization scheme with ROI and cost-of-delay classes
SAFe Train- and Large-Solution Coaching at a large Swiss telecommunications company
- Organization of several extended product management teams
- Establishing a structured backlog definition process
- Consulting and rollout support for a new collaboration model between product management and solution management
- Consulting and rollout support of a uniform WSJF for the entire large solution
- Introduction of two new RTEs
- Improvement of the PI-Plannings
- SAFe Advance Scrum Master Training
- Transition from process expert team to shared service team
ScrumKanban introduction Portal development at a power supplier
- Board Design
- Moderation of planning and retrospectives
- Structure product owner and scrum master
SAFe-Train-Launch Portal and Online Marketing for a large Swiss telecommunications company
- Structure of RTE and PMs
- SAFe4Teams Trainings
- Introduction PI-Planning, Inspect&Adapt, ART-Sync, System-Demo, Program-Backlog-Refinement and Program-Kanban
- Initial adaptation of SAFe to the organisational circumstances