Matti Saarinen is certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) and SAFe Release Train Engineer. He has gained experience about agile best practices in different roles like Scrum Master, Product Owner, Epic Owner, and Portfolio Manager. He has a great track record in managing stakeholders, product development and driving change.Matti Saarinen has experience in creating roadmaps, managing development and application portfolio of IT unit with 50 M€ yearly budget, managing needs and technical requirements from markets and business units, managing architecture based on strategy and opportunities based on new technologies and concepts.Matti Saarinen has led several change projects that each included 1) managing stakeholder needs and requirements 2) process design, 3) service design and 4) change management, training and deployment of new/changed IT-capabilities. Matti Saarinen has over 10 years' experience in leading people as line manager and in matrix environments. He has collaborated successfully with different stakeholders from executives to subject matter experts. He has also facilitated cross-organizational forums like portfolio board, architecture management forum and requirement management board. Matti Saarinen is excited about coaching agile ways of working, building an internal start-up culture, creating common understanding on current digitalization initiatives and facilitating a funnel for new business opportunities with clear steps from pre-scanning to production. Specialities: Agile Methodology (SAFe, SCRUM, Kanban), Portfolio Management, Program and Project Management, Business Process Management, Process Development, Change Management, Service Design, IT Service Management, IT Demand Management, IT Architecture, Governance, Vendor Management, Business Transformation (In-/Outsourcing), people management, leadership, Coaching & Training. Certified to teach Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) courses (for example: SAFe for Teams, Leading SAFe, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe DevOps, Lean Portfolio Management and Agile Software Engineering).Contact information:email: matti.s.saarinen (at) outlook dot com