Curriculum vitae
Dr. Thorsten Janning is a graduate mathematician and has worked in the IT industry since 1990. His professional career as an architect and project manager led him through consulting and user companies as well as a university professorship into the consulting and training business. As co-founder (in 2002) he is a partner and was a member of the board of KEGON AG until the end of 2017. His professional activities focus 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 train-ing development and he was the editor-in-Chief of OBJEKTspektrum from 2012 to summer 2018. He is the first SAFe Program Consultant Trainer in Germany since 09/2016. As the firstGermanSAFe 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)
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
Management Coaching of the agile portfolio process at an international automotive company supplier
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
- Marc Bauer
- Florian Beck
- Andreas Becker
- Stefan Becker
- Dr. Wolfgang Brandhuber
- Ulrich Brawand
- Dr. Michael Diefenbach
- Klaus Fricke
- Sebastian Friedsam
- Frederic Gerome
- Rachel Gibson
- Dr. Yvonne Görlitz
- Luke Hohmann
- Dr. René Hussong
- Klaus-Dieter Jäger
- Kurt Jäger
- Michaela Jäger
- Dr. Thorsten Janning
- Jörg Jungermann
- Nikoloas Kaintantzis
- Silke Kainzbauer
- Reiner Kuhn
- Christoph Mair
- Manuel Marsch
- Facher Qader
- Mark Rehberg
- Claus Rothenburg
- Felix Rüssel
- Christoph Schmiedt
- Andreas Selter
- Carl Starendal
- Konrad Swistelnicki
- Marco Tommasone
- Thomas van Aken
- Joe Vallone
- Peter Vollmer
- Markus Wissekal
- Oliver Wörl