Curriculum vitae
René Hussong got his Ph.D. in Computer Science (M.Sc.) in 2010 from Saarland University,
Saarbrücken, Germany. Following interdiscipli-nary research with fellowships in the US and Luxembourg, Dr. Hussong is focusing on agile software and product development since 2013. He held positions as Product Owner, Scrum Mas-ter and Senior Project Manager – in scaled, agile environments, as well as in classical project set-tings. Dr. Hussong is management consultant and partner at KEGON AG, certified SAFe® pro-gram consultant (SPC) und SAFe® Release Train engineer (RTE). In the last years, he has coached and driven agile transformations with numerous, globally acting customers in various industry sectors.
Knowledge and key topics
- Scaling, e.g. using SAFe®
- Agile software and product development
- Scrum and agile leadership
- Agile transformation and transition
- Coaching and training
Project experiences (selection)
Intelligent energy transmission & distribution – a stepwise implementation of SAFe
- Agile coach and management consultant
- Creation of a context-specific, highly individual transformation roadmap
- Coaching the LACE team
Global automotive supplier – Cross-domain SAFe® initiative
- SAFe® trainer, coach und consultant
- Co-training/-coaching with internal coaches
Energy Automation
- SAFe® trainer and coach
- ART preparation, launch and coaching
- Preparation & execution of a fully virtual value stream workshop for multiple locations
- Stepwise extension to a SAFe® Large Solution
Automobile manufacturer – SAFe® ART Launch
- SAFe® trainer and coach
- ART identification and setup
Global automotive supplier – SAFe® implementation
- Analysis of existing implementation, preparation of multi-project scenarios, derivation and implementation of a change backlog, ART relaunch and restructuring of the PI planning, coaching the execution phases
- Consulting & coaching w.r.t the OEM interface & the collaboration model
- SAFe® trainings
- Training and coaching of internal SAFe® Program Consultants (SPCs)
Medical Engineering – SAFe® implementation
- SAFe® trainings on management and PO/PM-level to support on-boarding of employees
SAFe® Coaching at an international automotive supplier
- Coaching of an individual large solution with two internationally active and distributed Agile Release Trains (ARTs)
- Implementation of SAFe® Trainings
Agiles Coaching and consulting in a logistics company
- Establishment of a new, agile project structure across distributed locations and several teams
Team Lead in an e-commerce direct insurance
- Product Owner and Senior Project Manager
- Scrum Master and Agile Coach
- Project-specific implementations of agile scaling, using SAFe® Essential, partly in combination with a classic project environment
Agile Transformation in an IT Direct Insurance
- Process design and change management
- Introduction and development of agile teams (Scrum and Kanban)
- Initiation of DevOps and development of continuous integration and test automation
- Roya Afshar
- David Baer
- Marc Bauer
- Susanne Bauer
- Florian Beck
- Stefan Becker
- Rune Christensen
- Dr. Michael Diefenbach
- Yevhen Domchenko
- Stefan Engels
- Sebastian Friedsam
- Frederic Gerome
- Dr. Yvonne Görlitz
- Stefan Hampel
- Dr. René Hussong
- Klaus-Dieter Jäger
- Kurt Jäger
- Rick Janda
- Dr. Thorsten Janning
- Jörg Jungermann
- Nikoloas Kaintantzis
- Silke Kainzbauer
- Volkhard Kantner
- Reiner Kuhn
- Manuel Marsch
- Katrin Petzold
- Facher Qader
- Matthias Racke
- Claus Rothenburg
- Felix Rüssel
- Christoph Schmiedt
- Andreas Selter
- Carl Starendal
- Konrad Swistelnicki
- Marco Tommasone
- Ilka Tröschel
- Thomas van Aken
- Peter Vollmer
- Heike Weil