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  • Kurt Jäger

    Management Consultant

    Language(s): German, English

    • Brief profile

    Kurt Jäger, a physicist by background, began his professional career in software development. He took on various roles at Software AG, including Head of Department for a core product. He was then responsible for software development at TONBELLER, introduced Scrum and managed the development of banking software. As a business unit manager and agile coach, he helped customers of andrena objects to become agile. Since 2013, he has been an agile management consultant and partner at KEGON AG. He is a certified Scrum Master, SAFe® Practice Consultant Trainer (SPCT), and Certified Profit Streams™ Trainer (CPS-T).

    Over the past 15 years, he has advised and accompanied agile transitions at Audi, Berner Kantonalbank, BMW, Bosch, Commerzbank, CompuGroup Medical, Continental, CosmosDirekt, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Lufthansa, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Bundesbank, ECB, FUJITSU, Generali, GfK, Uniqa, Janssen, Porsche, Rewe, Roche, SBB, Schufa, SAG, SAP, Siemens, Société Générale, Vaillant and VW.

    • Agile & Lean Organizational development
    • Portfolio Management
    • Value Stream Management
    • Profit Stream Optimization
    • Scaling Agile: SAFe, Less Nexus et.al.
    • Lean Process Optimization e.g. Flight Levels
    • Business Assessments 
    • Scrum & Kanban Coaching
    • Requirements Engineering
    • DevOps
    • Interim Management

    Trainings

    Date Training Language Price (Net) Places available
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    03.03.2026 – 06.03.2026

    		 Implementing SAFe® (SPC)

    Dorint Pallas, Auguste-Viktoria-Straße 15, 65185 Wiesbaden 08:30 – 18:00 h

    Book     		German 2.949 EUR 2.799 EUR 11 Book
    Book

    09.03.2026 – 27.04.2026

    		 Advanced SAFe® Practice Consultant (ASPC)

    Remote 14:00 – 18:00 h

    Book     		German 3.490 EUR 2.949 EUR 9 Book
    Book

    21.04.2026 – 24.04.2026

    		 Advanced SAFe® Practice Consultant (ASPC)

    Wiesbaden 08:30 – 17:30 h

    Book     		German 3.490 EUR 2.949 EUR 13 Book
    Book

    04.05.2026 – 15.06.2026

    		 Advanced SAFe® Practice Consultant (ASPC)

    Remote 14:00 – 18:00 h

    Book     		English 3.490 EUR 2.949 EUR 9 Book
    Book

    22.06.2026 – 03.08.2026

    		 Advanced SAFe® Practice Consultant (ASPC)

    Remote 14:00 – 18:00 h

    Book     		German 3.490 EUR 2.949 EUR 10 Book
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    01.09.2026 – 04.09.2026

    		 Implementing SAFe® (SPC)

    Dorint Pallas, Auguste-Viktoria-Straße 15, 65185 Wiesbaden 08:30 – 18:00 h

    Book     		German 2.949 EUR 2.799 EUR 15 Book
    Book

    22.09.2026 – 24.09.2026

    		 SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE)

    Wiesbaden 08:30 – 17:00 h

    Book     		German 2.649 EUR 2.499 EUR 15 Book
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    17.11.2026 – 19.11.2026

    		 SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE)

    Dorint Pallas, Auguste-Viktoria-Straße 15, 65185 Wiesbaden 08:30 – 17:00 h

    Book     		German 2.649 EUR 15 Book
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    07.12.2026 – 11.12.2026

    		 Implementing SAFe® (SPC)

    Remote 08:30 – 18:00 h

    Book     		German 2.949 EUR 2.799 EUR 15 Book

    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.

    • Individual training on agile and lean mindset and methods
    • Golden Circle Why What How
    • Effects on Lean Portfolio Management
    • Capex/Opex
    • Control and decision-making options for a CFO
       

    • Individual SAFe training for the ECB's Programme Management
    • Individual SAFe training for the coalition (ECB and NCBs)
       

    • Coaching of five internal method managers of the company
    • Development of a transition roadmap with the method managers
    • Conducting preparatory management briefings on SAFe implementation
    • Team self-assessments (SAFe Measure & Grow workshops) and retrospectives with teams to get a baseline and derive improvement measures for the change backlog
    • SAFe Value Stream Identification Workshops (Identifikation von Operational Value Streams und Development Value Streams)
    • LPM Trining to connect the H2R Train to the company's budget
    • Generating training nuggets in the form of videos
       

    • Workshops in IT management to teach Lean Agile methods
    • Coaching in prioritizing an IT portfolio
    • Setting up a project KANBAN board 
    • Workshops to find agile autonomous teams that are aligned with value creation.
       

    • Develop individual training for DBB division managers
    • Piloting and delivering the training
    • Training of DBB employees for this training

    • Consulting in the organization of sponsors and suppliers in agile teams
    • Agile cross-functional team cuts
    • Consulting on capacity allocation in team and train (feature, enabler, maintenace)
    • SAP Delivery Excellence und SAFe Rollen
    • RTE ART Readiness to Steer Transformation
    • PM has a good requirements backlog 
    • BO training for the train's stakeholders
       

    • SAFe4Architects Training, LPM-Training, SPC-Training
    • Advising the Board of Directors and IT Management on Value Streams
    • Advising the LPM also on the requirements process
    • Revision of the PM and RTE roles
    • Assessment of teams, trains and management 
    • Integration of the agile organization into Uniqa's line processes

    Advising management on realignment of initial SAFe implementation.

    • Leading SAFe trainings with assessment
    • Value Stream Identification Workshop

    Basic training for management and directors of Janssen Germany

    • Management integration 
    • Scrum pilot project
    • Value Stream Identification Workshop
    • Concepts for agile marketing and agile sales

    Basic training for all FUJITSU executives in Germany..

    • Management and line integration
    • Scrum and SAFe pilot projects
    • Value Stream Identification Work Shops
    • SAFe Train Setup support

    Consulting of the central LACE HUB e.g. on

    • Consulting of the central LACE HUB e.g. on 
    • Business Owners and line integration
    • Agile hardware development 
    • Portfolio Management and Financial Control
    • Cross-Solution Management 
    • Value Stream Management 
    • OKR utilization

    Coordination of 4 consultants (SPCs) who each coached SAFe Trains and their RTE's and proposed Lean Portfolio Management

    • Assessment and execution of a Value Stream Workshop according to SAFe
    • Teaching Agiles basics to middle management

    • Analysis of the Lean Portfolio implementation at Berner Kantonalbank
    • Assessment and suggestions for improvement for the further development of the portfolio

    • Analysis of the department and consulting of the team leaders for team cut and introduction of Kanban and Lean methods
    • Introduction of a Kanban system from portfolio to teams
    • Various trainings, workshops and consulting activities department and team management as well as consulting of individual teams

    • Implementation of SAFe for a first Agile Release Train in development. Consulting for the integration of the train and the extension to SAFe in the business unit.
    • Various trainings, workshops and consulting with top and middle management

    • Various workshops with the management of the bank on SAFe and its possibilities
    • Implementation of a SAFe4Executives workshop for the board
    • Value stream workshop for determining the train cut

    • SAFe Lean Portfolio Management Workshop 
    • Coaching 
      o    Summarize features into epics
      o    Derive new epics from strategic themes using portfolio canvas
      o    Set up a portfolio Kanban
      o    Change in the meeting structure and decision-making processes in management

    • LPM Workshop & Q&A
    • Coaching of portfolio group strategy and finance to set up an organization and processes for portfolio management

    • Workshops on the cooperation model of the participating companies
    • Introduction of Agile Product Management
    • Definition of Portfolio SAFe as cooperation model
    • Training and coaching of the participants
    • Top management workshop for the board members of the participating companies for the strategic orientation and control

    • Presentation of SAFe
    • Workshop definition of the team cut
    • Workshop on the definition of a backlog

    • Overall responsibility for the customer project
    • Coordination of the LACE Team
    • Lectures and organization of speakers
    • Agile management workshops for the BUs
    • Coaching of the employees of a software ART
    • Implementation of a train the trainer concept 
    • Various SAFe trainings and workshops

    • Training for PO's & SM's 
    • Product management and marketing line management
    • Coaching of HR & purchasing

    • Training and moderation

    • International Train from D, GB, E & India
    • Training of an agile Release Train consisting of 70 employees
    • Moderation of the Big Planning Meetings
    • Moderation of the I&A Meetings
    • Coaching of the Requirements Engineering's for Portfolio and Program Backlogs

    • Workshops zu Leading SAFe und SAFe 4 Executives
    • Concept/Offer for the Introduction of a SAFe Pilot with Training and Coaching

    • Coaching of the program leader/RTE's/PM
    • Introduction of SAFe
    • Moderation and coaching of the PI-Meetings
    • Support during the I&A meetings

    • Consulting of the LACE team
    • Consulting of various Agile Release Trains RTE's
    • Standard SAFe trainings

    • Agile Workshop elaborated and carried out (to date 10% of all employees)
    • Agilisation of the largest program of the insurance company with approx. 200 FTE's
    • Coaching at Portfolio Backlog creation for all areas of insurance
    • Coaching of the business consultants and various specialist areas of insurance

    • Presentation of SAFe
    • Analysis and improvement of the requirements engineering process
    • Coaching of various agile process optimizations in a direct insurance workshop with IT
    • Area managers of direct insurance

    • Value Stream Identification Workshops
       

    • Training of team leaders on a common prioritized list of requirements.
    • Coaching of an agile requirements process
    • Coaching of a SAFe PI planning with 2-week Scrum iterations 
    • Introduction of an I&A workshop
    • Risk Management
    • Establishing an RTE
       

    Articles by Kurt Jäger

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    • SAFe

    New SAFe® Business Owner Microcredential - finally a training programme for the SAFe® Business Owner role

    The Business Owner - as the person with business responsibility for Agile Release Trains, Valuestreams or an entire SAFe® portfolio - is one of the most influential SAFe® roles and has a significant impact on the success of SAFe® through the targeted fulfilment of their role.

    Read more 03.04.2025
    • Profit Streams

    Profit & Compliance, Compliance & Profit, go hand in hand like a Möbius Strip!

    Imagine you could not only fulfil legal requirements, but also find new ways to increase your profits.

    Read more 02.07.2024
    • SAFe

    First training from the Scaled Agile Framework® available in German with German exam

    The Scaled Agile Framework® now offers Leading SAFe®, the first training with German documentation and German examination. As the first European provider of SAFe training, our KEGON experts were directly involved in the translation.

    Read more 15.11.2022