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    • Dr. Thorsten Janning

    Management Consultant

    thorsten.janning(at)kegon.de
    Tel +49 611 20 50 80

    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)

    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

    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