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  • Klaus-Dieter Jäger

    Management Consultant

    Language(s): German, English

    • Brief profile

    Klaus-Dieter Jäger (born 1975) holds a degree in Computer Engineering (FH) and has been working in the IT industry since 1997. His professional career has taken him to various consulting and development companies as an application developer, architect, project manager and coach.

    The focus of his professional activities is coaching and the implementation of training courses on scaled agility, the development/implementation of IT strategies at the interface between development and operation.

    In addition, he has extensive experience in the development and testing of IT architectures, application performance management, cloud, monitoring and DevOps in the area of tension between development, test and operation.

    • Agile Coach (RTE, Scrum Master)
    • Enterprise DevOps
    • Software Architecture/Engineering
    • Enterprise Architectures
    • System-Integration/Engineering
    • Monitoring/Profiling
    • Project Management IT Operations
       

    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
    • Organisation und Coaching von interdisziplinäreren Agile Team-of-Teams
    • Interim Release Train Engineer
    • Konzeption und Coaching im Lean Portfoliomanagement
    • Coaching von Führungskräften (Key Area und Cluster Lead Ebene)

    • Coach and Consultant for Scaled Agile Framework, Agile and Lean
    • Release Train Engineer coaching (Hard- and Software)
    • Support for PI Planning Meetings preparation, execution and postprocessing with more than 80 attendees 
    • Support for preparation, execution and post-processing of SAFe Inspect & Adapt workshops incl. large group retrospectives
    • Consulting in terms of the adaption of the Scaled Agile Framework to a customer context

    • Subproject/Teamlead Core Application
    • Planning and conception of the IT landscape in cooperation with the Enterprise Architecture Team
    • Planning and organization of the operation of the Dev & Test systems (use of KANBAN for transparent, self-organized control)

    • Leadership of the application Performance Management Taskforce
    • Conception and implementation of performance, scaling and load tests
    • Verification of the application architecture with regard to non-functional requirements
    • Development of optimization options and coordination of these with offshore development in India

    • Employee in system test design and execution of load tests including testing the limit load
    • Implementation of various performance optimizations
    • Implementation of the production hardware sizing

    • Agile Coach:
    • Anchoring the new agile delivery model and consolidating the new company-wide role model at the business unit, tribe and squad level
    • Conception of role-specific enablement formats for architecture and info-sec officers 
    • Accompaniment/training of the RTEs in various tribes and temporary assumption of the RTE role as a substitute  
    • Unify the use of Jira to enable meaningful cross-tribe evaluations
       

    • Agile Coach
    • Introduction of the RTE and STE roles and temporary assumption of the STE/RTE roles as a substitute
    • Impulses of individual teams (so-called cells) with DevOps approaches from outside the company, such as Zelle Atlassian Tooling, and
    • Support in the introduction of Jira Plan Roadmaps to map the artifact hierarchy in a Jira multi-project setup
    • Organization and coaching of more interdisciplinary Agile Team-of-Teams (so-called ValueStreams with 50-80 people):

    • Enable the design, development and staffing of the clusters and teams by imparting methodological know-how and best practices

    • Optimize the OKR process and the annual OKR process
    • Coaching of Executives (Cluster Lead; SAT, ValueStream level)