Jakub Jurkiewicz Email & Phone Number

Frankton, Otago, Nz

Frankton, Otago, Nz

As the host of the Tech Waka Podcast, I lead thought-provoking conversations with senior technology leaders, exploring topics that resonate with aspiring leaders in the tech industry.

Auckland, Nz

An intensive 9-weeks program for agile coaches and scrum masters who want to level up and lead.www.agilecoachinglab.comAgile Coaching Lab is not your typical training course. It is a platform for your change and growth. It’s an experience for the participants who want to discover the depth of agile coaching and scrum mastery.During the 9 weeks, you will explore the core competencies of agile coaching, dive into the practice of self-reflection and learn from the constant feedback. By the end of the program, you will have increased your confidence and found your higher potential.

Created and developed a wine quiz app called WineUni. This iOS app helps students prepare for their WSET and sommelier exams.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Contributing to the Business Agility Institute research and whitepapers creation.White papers:"Hiring for culture": https://businessagility.institute/learn/whitepaper-hiring-for-culture/"Employee Engagement": https://businessagility.institute/learn/whitepaper-employee-engagement/

Foster City, California, Us

Auckland, Nz

Working with one of the banks in New Zealand.- Coaching and mentoring the senior leaders (GMs, Tribe Leads, Delivery Leads)- Establishing a customer oriented tribe: coaching through the transition to the new ways of working, facilitating workshops, helping people to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty.

Auckland, Nz

Working on an enterprise level, coaching and mentoring senior managers, general managers, product managers, delivery managers, agile team facilitators and teams. The purpose of coaching was to help Air New Zealand to embrace agile way of working.Some of my tasks involve:- 1:1 coaching and mentoring General Managers and Senior Managers, Agile Team Facilitators, Delivery Leads, Product Managers and tribe members, helping them in their journey through agile transformation.- Leading the conversations about the culture in the organisation, using Emotional Culture Deck as a way to facilitate these conversations.- Using system thinking to model the complexity of the organisation and understand the underlying problems and impediments, in order to find the best leverage points to solve them.- Working with the HR, Strategy, Finance, and Procurement with the focus on changing the practices, rules and principles to enable business agility.- Introduced Design Thinking to non-product teams (support and change management) as a way to solve complex problems.- The coached tribes showed higher engagement, were able to deliver value faster, used feedback to guide their decisions, treated continuous improvement as part of they work.Some of the feedbacks I've received:- "I feel grateful to have found you in this organisation!"- "Jakub has transformed my teams dramatically and I see they are more engaged and focused."- "At our away day Jakub introduced some new ways of thinking about how we can improve our team behaviours to better support us all as individuals and move the dial on needs that we all share. This was done in a way that everyone felt at ease in contributing to. I think everyone came away from that day feeling better connected and more in tune with everyone else in the team. This has never happened to such a great degree before."

Wellington, Wellington, Nz

Working as a consultant, helping organisations and teams to be agile.- Coaching senior managers in New Zealand organisations on their journey to agility. Helping to decide how the future of the organisation could look like and what changes need to be made in order to become an agile organisation.- Working with both IT departments and non-IT ones, including marketing and HR.- Coaching Product Owners and Scrum Master, helping them understand their roles and how to collaborate in order to satisfy customers' needs and create a sustainable working environment.- Helping with the transition to Kanban. Introducing the ideas of waste, limiting Work in Progress, visualisation of work, creating clear policies and continuous improvement.- Facilitation of events, meetings and workshops. Using multiple techniques, including impact mapping, story mapping, Improv, Liberating Structures and others, in order to make the sessions effective.- Trainer of the ICAgile Agile Coach course - 3-days course which allows participants to embrace Agile Coaching- Identifying the skills required and support internal capability growth in Assurity.- Supporting, coaching and mentoring other Agile Consultants.- Speaker at AgileNZ conference and Agile Auckland meetup- Co-founder of the Auckland Agile Coaching meetup and Business Agility New Zealand meetupComments from my clients:- "You were excellent at balancing coaching / mentoring / teaching and know exactly when to use which approach. You also bring a mindset that is so refreshing and challenging our current ways but you do this in the most professional, positive and calming manner."- "I am thoroughly appreciative of all the help you provided to me and the team – I am exceptionally grateful."- "Friendly and personable nature, and your ability to find relevant examples to clearly explain complicated concepts."

Grafton, Auckland, Nz

Team Leader of a cross-functional team delivering technology enabling other teams, e.g. REST APIs, instant messaging server, portal web components container, GraphQL.Responsibilities:- Playing the role of a Scrum Master - successful facilitation of rituals, close collaboration with Product Owner, removing impediments, evangelising agile values in the team and in the organization.- Technical leadership- Mentoring, coaching and supporting team members.- Stakeholders management.- Recruiting new team members.- Line managing up to 15 people. Key Achievements:- Helped the team to reduce the time between releases from once every few months to once every sprint. This was achieved through high level of automatization of deployments and testing (manual testing was limited to minimum). Quick releases enabled the team to quickly gather feedback, introduce improvements and eliminate waste.- Helped the team to become cross-functional. - Helped team members to grow.- Leader of the Development Guild Committee, which promotes software craftsmanship in the development community in the company.Key comments from the recommendations:- "My time spent under Jakub while he was a Team-Leader was a journey of self-betterment."- "His enthusiasm in Agile impressed me significantly and he was one of the most experienced Agilist I had a chance to work with."- "Jakub is one of the best Scrum Master I ever worked with."- "Jakub is one of those few managers who has the qualities of a great leader, mentor and developer. "- "My most memorable moment would have to be completely re-imagining an agile retrospective to get participants engaged and talking. This was just one of the ways in which Jakub has shown unique approach to a common task, to improve results."

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, De

I was a leader of a team which task was to introduce new banking product into already existing infrastructure at the client side. My tasks in this project were multi-level. First, I was a Scrum Master responsible for following the Scrum process. I also played a role of project manager by monitoring progress of tasks and reporting to the client. I was also a developer and tech mentor, so I worked with the rest of the team on the source code in order to achieve as high quality as possible. Finally, I was the leader of this project, who was responsible for the overall success of this project (from the technological and customer-satisfaction points of view).For few months I was a leader of a team, which task was to design and implement REST-based API for a set of already existing services. The API was created in Node.js-based technologies (with such modules like Express, Winston, Mocha). Our task was also to introduce changes and missing features to the existing services. These services were coded in Java using Spring-based technologies, JMS, multithreading, etc. The project was developed with Scrum principles and practices. To ensure high quality we payed attention to testing, peer reviews, pair programming and continuous integration. The customer for the project was one of the investment banks.

I had a chance to be solely a Scrum Master and Agile Coach for 7 teams. My main task was to make sure that the teams follow Scrum and Kanban principles. I was also facilitating meetings, removing impediments, introducing process optimization and new techniques to the whole company (e.g. I introduced happiness metric). I worked both with local team and distributes ones (also working in different time zones).

In iTraff Technology, which was a classic startup company, we were developing image recognition technology. In this company I was playing the roles of Scrum Master and main developer. This was pretty challenging as we had to deal with constantly changing market, doing pivot after pivot to make sure that our product in right for the market. This meant constantly changing requirements and priorities. This challenges taught me how to organize work of a team and how to create successful implementation of Scrum. From the development point of view I used ObjectiveC to create a number of iOS applications, C++ to implement the algorithms responsible for image recognition and Java to create REST API using Play Framework.

Poznan, Pl

For 6 years I was an academic teacher responsible for laboratories on Software Engineering. During the classes I was introducing students to the topics of agile approaches to software development, project management, requirements engineering, testing, software effort estimation, UML, software architecture, etc.I must say that every year I was able to learn something new from my students as they were forcing me to look at software engineering from new points of view.

Poznan, Pl

Analyzing requirements elicited by our customer for one of his projects - preparing guidelines how requirements should be written to maximize project's quality.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I was working for IBM for almost 4 years. My role was to support IBM's customers in their problems with Eclipse-based products. In this job I was fixing bugs in Eclipse platform, debugging issues and developing new tools. Here I could learn a lot about Eclipse platform itself, about working as a support engineer and about being part of a worldwide support team.

Eliciting functional and nonfunctional requirements together with modeling business processes for a job offering system.

I was a developer responsible for creating Eclipse-based plugins for requirements elicitation tool called UC Workbench. This tool was a research project and was partially supported by IBM.

Kraków, Pl

Porting C# based system to Java Server Faces technology.

Creating a module for web graphical user interface creator. Using JavaScript, Perl, PL\SQL.

Phd, Software Engineering

M.Sc., Computer Science