Julian Ehmer, MBA

Compassionate Lean & Agile Coach

Fuldabrück, Hesse, Germany

About

Lean & DevOps enthusiast, organizational and agile coach. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certified Scrum@Scale practitioner with Jeff Sutherland, Kanban Coach, Design Thinking Coach, Systemic Coach interested in DevOps, XP, Story Mapping, CI/CD, Cloud, System Theory

Experience

  • MBition (4 yrs 7 mos)
    • Release Train Engineer and SAFe Program Consultant
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

      Coaching the creation of a new value stream organization to enable better lead times and quality for software development process data use-cases - identifying the value stream - coaching SAFe Roles - support building an initial roadmap - gathering support for creating a new value stream organization - coaching teams in effective planning and collaboration - training team members in the SAFe framwork - training the organization in lean & agile principles - fostering a lean & agile mindset - PI planning preparation & execution - supporting teams and SAFe roles in PI execution

    • Senior Agile Coach (DevOps)
      Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

      Agile Coach for the CI/CD Platform of MB.OS - enabling CI/CD for In-Car Software by providing a complete developers tool set - coaching several teams along the developer journey - facilitating cross department alignments - encouraging a focus on cycle time and built in quality - support hiring and staffing, choosing the department’s first UX designer - supporting the move to SAFe - Initiated the first agile coaches offsite

  • Lehrbeauftragter: Organizational Behavior at AMD Akademie Mode & Design
    Mar 2023 - Aug 2023 · 6 mos

    Lecturer: Organizational Behavior - group dynamics - leadership styles - development of organizations - self leadership

  • Lehrbeauftragter: Agiles Projektmanagement at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
    Mar 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Lecturer: Agile Project Management - teaching fundamentals of agile product development - principles of lean and agile - Scrum and Kanban simulations - helping students deliver successful software projects

  • Agile Teamcoach at Thalia Digital Retail Solutions
    Oct 2020 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Agile Coach for Native Apps Teams - coaching native app development teams - scaling Scrum with LeSS - collaborating with B2B customer - initiated book club to foster learning and cross team discussions - started DevOps CoP - conducting Value Stream Map workshops - having 1on1s with team members

  • Agile Coach at XING
    May 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Agile Coach for the Growth Cluster - fostering platform growth by improving customer on and up boarding - coaching distributed development teams across 3 timezones - introducing quarterly health checks for the cluster - OKR “Jedi”, OKR coach for the department, part of OKR CoP - Introducing flow metrics and Monte Carlo forecasting - mediating conflicts - having 1on1s with team members