Hello, I'mOlaf SchuhmannAgile Coach | Trainer

About Me

  • I empower distributed teams to deliver exiting technology products incrementally.
  • I am a passionate and empathic servant leader who loves to work with international teams and growing organisations.
  • I focus on Coaching, Mentoring & Training using methods like Scrum, Lean, Kanban, SAFe and Training from the BACK of the room.

Skills

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Agile Transformation & Scaling

Scrum | KANBAN | XP | Lean | SAFe

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Delivery Leadership

Delivery Vision | Success Metrics | User Story Mapping

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Training & Mentoring

Agile Awareness workshops | Scrum & Kanban classes | Training from the back of the room | Leadership & communication

Mindset

Agile mindset | Bottoms up | Vision driven | Based on values & principles | Respect | Transparency | Continuous improvement

Leadership

Servant leadership | Dynamic | Passionate | Team builder | Confidence booster | Energetic | Accountable | Empathic | Entrepreneur | Management 3.0

Communication

Clear & concise | Empathic | Knowledge sharing | Networking | Presentation skills | Sense of humour

Certifications

We learn all our life, I am constantly studying to be able to provide teams with all the tools they need to master their challenges.

SMC
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KMP
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CSPO
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Trainer
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SPC
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SSM
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Practitioner
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Practitioner
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Education is not preparation
for life, education is life itself.

Career

An excerpt of the most influencing positions of my career.

Agile Coach & Delivery Leadsennder GmbH2020-2021

Organisation in hypergrowth phase, ramping up tech team 400% within 1 year, working purely remote.

Responsible for the success of a business area with 6 product teams. Working together with product & tech leadership to empower BA and teams. Support constant scaling up and keeping business in sync & establish a sustainable product development lifecycle across the BA.

Agile Coach & TrainerVehiculum GmbH2019

Mid sized tech startup, slowly growing tech & product teams. Working on site & remote.

Train & empower development & BI departments to become more efficient and introduce faster product delivery in close collaboration with business and executive management. Coaching executive management & product team to work agile.

CEO & OwnerVishnu Artists GmbH2016-2019

Founded a company to empower individuals, teams and entire organisations to work agile and trigger continuous learning, through training and coaching.

Agile Coach & Delivery LeadAuctionTech GmbH2018-2019

Establish Delivery leadership role, support CTO & relief from overburden, support DEV team in product delivery and forecasting, empower business to be sustainable.

Agile Coach & Product MangerDeutsche Post AG2017-2018

Owning product development, establish incremental releases and finding a more effective way to deliver and improve continuously within the team.

Agile Coach & Product OwnerAklamio GmbH2016-2017

Lead the team towards effectiveness, own Aklamio’s internal & external products, create roadmap, speed up product delivery.

Scrum Master & Product ManagerAuctionata AG2012-2015

Lead fast growing dev team(s), establish an optimal product delivery, follow roadmap and deliver continuously.

PRODUCT MANAGER & DEVELOPERJack Wolfskin GmbH2000-2011

Development, Design and Management of all Jack Wolfskin web platforms (B2C, B2B portal & e-commerce platform)

Industries & Technologies

Start-up’s | SMU | International Corporations | Transport & Logistics | Referral Marketing | Government Services | Automotive | Auction & Live Auction | e-Commerce | Real estate management | Big data | Vehicle Leasing | SaaS | Payment provider | Web applications | Mobile apps | API
21Years in Tech Industry
10Years Agile
200Successful projects
5Fails

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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

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International
Design Awards
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European
Design Awards

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Portfolio

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Testimonials

Testimonials

Olaf has a sharp creative mind and a positive mindset enabling him to find surprising and efficient solutions to challenges. He has a deep toolbox within agile methods, and is a very proficient in training, facilitation and coaching of teams and individuals in agile methods. With his warm and empathic attitude he is approachable, and people around naturally involve him in solving problems they cannot solve on their own. I can highly recommend Olaf as an asset in any team.

Rune HansenAgile Coach and Trainer (SPC, RTE)

With his experience and his good relation to the engineers, he helped us to be more effective and focused on our daily work. His biggest project at Aklamio was to support the process of implementing structural changes in the engineering team, which has been achieved in professional and successful manner. Furthermore, he coached and supported our Product Owners in agile principles and helped to overcome issues that happen from time to time. I highly recommend to work with Olaf, and we will also do so again whenever we have the need for an Agile Coach or Scrum Master.

Holger GrosseCTO & Founder at aklamio GmbH

Contact

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Dresden,
Germany

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General Enquiries
info(at)olafschuhmann.de