Milan Schwarz Email & Phone Number

South Moravian Region, Czechia

Brno, South Moravia, Czechia

The purpose of our team of Coaches: Enable continuous improvement by constantly focusing on the main challenges and opportunities in product development. We do this by observing, coaching, guiding and supporting PO, teams and stakeholders and their collaboration.Context- 16+ teams working on 1 product- manager-less structure, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) framework- using Obeya and SCRUM for collaboration(and priorities alignment) of the group of coaches, HRBP, stakeholders and (internal) customers- each coach is building a deeper knowledge in a selected area. I am focusing more on helping in the Technical Excellence area (Continuous Integration, Continous Delivery, Development practices, Security, Testing, etc.)- focusing on pure Individual and Team Coaching right now (self-education + practising)Most used tools* Miro Boards, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, IntelliJ IDEA, GIT, etc.Next interesting steps during our journey:Flip II.- teams are self-redesigned based on learnings engineers get during the last year- flatter organization (just Head of product is between an engineer and CEO)Frontline Support transformation- CSS and Sales departments are merged based on optimization goals and constraints- Teams are self-designed with a focus on self-management in >90% of activities in terms of getting and supporting a customer

District Brno-City, Czech Republic

Many success stories and lessons learned during journey from component teams to 13+ teams scaling on 1 product by usage https://less.works/ as scaling scrum framework. Many thanks to Jurgen De Smet and Co-Learning who help us on daily basis.Before Flip to LeSS environment- I became a Scrum Master, because our team saw a big advantage to have somebody like me in such a position, I liked facilitation of improvements in our team and also journey to scaling scrum (LeSS) was promising.- I started to be a member of Scrum Masters community and help in LeSS adoption- I started to focus on the whole system (not just one team)- Actively participated in preparation of the company for Flip into LeSS environment for our main productFlip I.- I actively participated in the facilitation of four days event called Flip (switch in the way of working from separated teams into the team of teams) with 80+ participants.Outcomes:- new estimated product backlog (backlogs were reduced to 1)- top of the backlog refined- new self-designed cross-functional teams- Sprint 1 planned- new experiment for L4 support startedAfter Flip I.- Facilitation of overall events (planning, refinement, review, retrospective) for 10+ teams on 5 locations + PO + stakeholders- Guiding teams to be more and more self-managed- Focusing on regular system improvementsLater- Focusing on improving Large-Scale Scrum effectiveness (overall refinement, planning, …) in a distributed environment.- Guiding team to be self-managed and helping them to be able to sustainably achieve their goals.- Started to focus on Technical excellence as a key aspect of scaling scrum.

District Brno-City, Czech Republic

- Making design and implementation decisions up to the architecture level in alignment with Product Architect(s).- Proposing changes into product architecture based on emerging issues and experience within the engineering team.- Accountable for proper implementation of product architecture within the team as well as communication and explanation of such architecture into the team.Used technologies: Java SE, JMX, ObjectDB, Infinispan, ZeroMQ, Groovy, PostgreSQL, ...Used tools: IntelliJ IDEA, VisualVM, Visual Paradigm, FreeMind, Evernote, Git, Atlassian stack (JIRA, Stash, Bamboo), Elastic Stack (Elastic Search, LogStash, Kibana, Kafka), Wireshark, Grafana, InfluxDB, Slack, ...

Czech Republic

1. Head of Product "Speech Analytics for Contact Centers"- nice article about the product based on an interview with me can be found here (just in Czech): http://byznys.ihned.cz/c1-63817590-brnenska-firma-chce-vylepsit-povest-call-center-nahrane-hovory-meni-na-data2. Horizon 2020 project coordinator:- Big Speech Data Analytics for Contact Centers (BISON)- 8 partners (6 companies, 2 Universities) from 5 countries- Funded by the EC under the Horizon 2020 program, ICT 15 – 2014 “Big data and Open Data Innovation and take-up”- Total budget: 4.1M EUR- Nice article about the project based on an interview with me: http://www.zdnet.com/article/watch-your-mouth-the-call-center-software-that-knows-what-you-want-before-youve-finished-speaking/- More info about the project: www.bison-project.euResponsibility:- product owner (product strategy definition and road map for future product development)- business development based on our partnership model- sales and development activities coordination- conversion of business needs into product-specific requests and user stories- team leader- active attendance at trade fairs, conferences, seminars, etc.- product architect (in the initial stage of the product)Used technologies: Java EE, Spring, Spring Security, MySQL, MyBATIS, Wicket, JQuery, …Used tools: Eclipse, Maven, Jenkins, Redmine, SQuirreL, Evernote, FreeMind, SVN, MS Office, Pencil, …

District Brno-City, Czech Republic

Team leader and main solver of project: 'Possibilities of technological upgrade analysis for the largest information system in the Czech Republic Army'.Member of the technology team – analysis, solution design, prototyping, etc.Used technologies: Java EE, EMF, Spring, Spring Security, CAS (JASIG), JSF, JPA, JUnit, 4GL,C, C++, Informix, Oracle, ...Used tools: Eclipse, Magic Draw, Maven, JMeter, YourKit Profiler, JRockit Mission Control, Bugzilla, SQuirreL, Evernote, FreeMind, SVN, ...

District Brno-City, Czech Republic

Analysis, design and implementation of new platform for systems of city transport.Used technologies: Java SE, Spring, Hibernate, JFormDesigner, JGoodies, CheckStyle, JUnit, PMD, SVN

District Brno-City, Czech Republic

Approval process of loans. Design description and implementation of customer requirements by specification using on the basis. Used technologies: Struts, GWT, Javascript, HTML, XML, Spring, iBATIS, JDBC, Hibernate, Oracle, WebLogic, Tomcat, Web Services, JMS

District Ostrava-City, Czech Republic

GUI layer design and implementation of banking application for Payment Solutions department in Norway.Used technologies: JSF, JavaScript, HTML, XML, WebSphere

District Brno-City, Czech Republic

User interfaces development for engines of speech recognition. Scripts writing, video converting. English documentation.Used technologies: Java Swing, JMF, HTML, XML, Perl, AWK, VirtualDub