• Dr. Thorsten Janning

    Management Consultant

    Language(s): German, English
  • Brief profile

    Thorsten Janning (born 1962) is a graduate mathematician working in the IT industry since 1990. His professional career took him as an architect and project manager of consulting and corporate users, as well as a college professor in the consulting and training business. As a co-founder (in 2002) he is partner and was CEO of the KEGON AG until the end of 2017.

    His professional activity focuses on the development of lean and agile organizations, as well as the implementation of leanagile strategy and portfolio processes. Thorsten brought his years of experience in innovative development technologies in a variety of publications and training development and he was the editor-in-Chief of OBJEKTspektrum from 2012 to summer 2018. He is the first SAFe Practice Consultant Trainer in Germany since 09/2016. As the first German SAFe Fellow he is experienced counterpart for C-Level Management on their way in the digital future for their enterprises.

    • Agile organizations
    • Portfolio management
    • Strategy development

    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.

    • Planning and implementation of overall transformation and design of structures of Agile Release Trains and Value Streams
    • Participation in the Enterprise Transformation Team
    • Coaching Business Owner
       

    • Planning and implementation of overall transformation and design of structures of Agile Release Trains and Value Streams
    • Collaboration in the Enterprise Transformation Team
    • Coaching C-Level
    • Coaching Portfolio Level
    • Conducting an enterprise-wide prioritisation workshop

    • Establishment of an agile strategy process
    • Design of a customer-specific scaling approach
    • Design and implementation of an overarching portfolio process
    • Value stream identification
    • Collaboration in the Enterprise Transformation Team
    • Training and coaching of internal change agents
    • Coaching C-Level

    • Planning and implementation of overall transformation and design of structures of Agile Release Trains and Value Streams
    • Coaching C-Level
    • Coaching Portfolio Level
    • Conducting a company-wide prioritisation workshop

    • Coaching Portfolio Level
    • Setting up a process for the systematic derivation of portfolio epics
    • Conducting a company-wide prioritisation workshop
    • Creating guardrails for decentralised decision making

    • Portfolio Management
    • Coaching portfolio level
    • Setting up a Lean Portfolio Management 
    • Setting up an agile strategy process and committee rhythm
    • Creating a key performance indicator system for systematic improvement
    • Define guardrails for decentralised decision making

    • Management of the Agile change concept of the scaling approach
    • Training and coaching of the internal change agents
    • Coaching at PI Plannings
    • Training and coaching of the internal transformation agents

    • transformation coach
    • KEGON Strategy and Portfolio Process at Program Level

    • Management of the agile change concept of the customer-specific scaling approach
    • Training and coaching of the internal change agents
    • Training and coaching of the teams
    • Management coaching

    • Management of the agile change

    • Head of the Agile Change Team
    • Overall concept
    • Training
    • Management Coaching
    • Management workshops for planning and agile transformation
    • Inventory of the situation
    • Short introduction of SAFe
    • Development of the future structure of the organization
    • Development of the transformation roadmap and the initial change backlog

    • Agilization Portfolio management and release management on the basis of SAFe
    • Transformation of the entire development on Scrum and Kanban
    • Overall concept and management coaching

    • Project management
    • Training and coaching of the Agile Center
    • Introduction in the US