• Joseph Assaf

    Consultant

    Language(s): German, English, French, Spanish, Arabic
  • Brief profile

    Joseph Assaf is passionate about driving agile transformations. He is an experienced agile trainer and coach with a unique advantage—his background as a NAAB-certified architect. With his background in architecture, Joseph has acquired the mindset of focusing on end results while always placing great emphasis on involving all stakeholders in an agile work environment that is creative, innovative, and organized. With his strong intercultural communication skills, he thrives in diverse environments and helps teams and organizations excel in dynamic settings. His track record speaks for itself, with achievements such as shortening delivery times and improving team productivity and collaboration.

    Soft Skills:

    • Leadership mindset
    • Relentless improvement
    • Creative and Innovative
    • System Thinker
    • Energy pulse by working on the context and not the people

    Main areas of consulting:

    • Agile Transformation

    • Entrepreneurship

    • UI – System Thinking

    • SAFe® Framework

    • Team Leadership/Team Building

    • Scrum + Lean Flow

    Business sectors:

    • Architecture Design & Construction

    • Hardware enthusiast

    • Entrepreneurship, Business Venture

    • Manufacture – IT

    • Agile Transformation
    • Entrepreneurship
    • UI – System Thinking
    • SAFe® Framework
    • Team Leadership/Team Building
    • Scrum + Lean Flow

    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.

    • Agile Coach / Scrum Master
    • Portfolio Management / ART Coach
    • Build Crossfunctional Agile Teams

    • Agile Coach / Scrum Master
    • Portfolio Management / ART Coach
    • Build Crossfunctional Agile Teams

    • Assisting consultant for the implementation of the value stream workshop
    • Agile Coach / Moderator
    • Coaching team level
    • Training team and management level
    • Conducting preparatory meetings with ART RTE prior to the workshop to create value on a common basis

    • Definition and implementation of agile teams
    • Creating guardrails for decentralized decision making
    • Managing a series of systematic Agile "diagnostic" sessions with the RTE
    • Explain and clarify the idea to move from “Push” to “Pull” system.
    • Agile Coach / Moderator

    • Co-led the introduction of Essential SAFe and Agile mindset adoption, including customized SAFe city simulation to enhance understanding of PI Planning.
    • Derived the Agile practices and Kanban usage while establishing systematic processes to embed SAFe principles across the organization
    • Agile Coach / Moderator