Curriculum vitae
Thorsten Janning (born 1962) is a graduate mathematician working in the IT industry since 1990. His professional career took him as an architect and project manager of consulting and corporate users, as well as a college professor in the consulting and training business. As a co-founder (in 2002) he is partner and was CEO of the KEGON AG until the end of 2017.
His professional activity focuses on the development of lean and agile organizations, as well as the implementation of leanagile strategy and portfolio processes. Thorsten brought his years of experience in innovative development technologies in a variety of publications and training development and he was the editor-in-Chief of OBJEKTspektrum from 2012 to summer 2018. He is the first SAFe Practice Consultant Trainer in Germany since 09/2016. As the first German SAFe Fellow he is experienced counterpart for C-Level Management on their way in the digital future for their enterprises.
Knowledge and focus
- Agile organizations
- Portfolio management
- Strategy development
Project Experiences (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.
Market leader Robotics systems - agile transformation of an entire organisation
- Planning and implementation of overall transformation and design of structures of Agile Release Trains and Value Streams
- Collaboration in the Enterprise Transformation Team
- Coaching C-Level
- Coaching Portfolio Level
- Conducting an enterprise-wide prioritisation workshop
Automotive supplier - digital transformation
- Establishment of an agile strategy process
- Design of a customer-specific scaling approach
- Design and implementation of an overarching portfolio process
- Value stream identification
- Collaboration in the Enterprise Transformation Team
- Training and coaching of internal change agents
- Coaching C-Level
Insurance - agile transformation of an overall IT
- Planning and implementation of overall transformation and design of structures of Agile Release Trains and Value Streams
- Coaching C-Level
- Coaching Portfolio Level
- Conducting a company-wide prioritisation workshop
Telecommunications - Lean Agile Portfolio Management
- Coaching Portfolio Level
- Setting up a process for the systematic derivation of portfolio epics
- Conducting a company-wide prioritisation workshop
- Creating guardrails for decentralised decision making
Insurance Industry - Agile Transformation and Lean Agile Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Management
- Coaching portfolio level
- Setting up a Lean Portfolio Management
- Setting up an agile strategy process and committee rhythm
- Creating a key performance indicator system for systematic improvement
- Define guardrails for decentralised decision making
Agile Transformation of a global development organization
- Management of the Agile change concept of the scaling approach
- Training and coaching of the internal change agents
- Coaching at PI Plannings
- Training and coaching of the internal transformation agents
Agile strategy and portfolio process at a medium-sized software company
- transformation coach
- KEGON Strategy and Portfolio Process at Program Level
Agile transformation of the overall IT of a bank (development & IT operations)
- Management of the agile change concept of the customer-specific scaling approach
- Training and coaching of the internal change agents
- Training and coaching of the teams
- Management coaching
Transformation of a strategic software company
Agile transformation of the entire IT of a bank (development & IT operations)
- Management of the agile change
Development program at an international logistics company
- Head of the Agile Change Team
- Overall concept
- Training
- Management Coaching
- Management workshops for planning and agile transformation
- Inventory of the situation
- Short introduction of SAFe
- Development of the future structure of the organization
- Development of the transformation roadmap and the initial change backlog
Transformation of a Swiss bank Software house into an agile organization
- Agilization Portfolio management and release management on the basis of SAFe
- Transformation of the entire development on Scrum and Kanban
- Overall concept and management coaching
International introduction of SAFe in a software house
- Project management
- Training and coaching of the Agile Center
- Introduction in the US