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Denis Gubin

Interim Project Manager & Agile Coach

€900/day
Cassel, DE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Denis

I am Denis Gubin – an agile coach with over 10 years of experience in successfully implementing transformations in large organizations. My strength lies in pragmatically and creatively solving complex challenges while shaping sustainable changes. At Volkswagen, I led over 260 employees through agile transformations, realized international scaling projects, and significantly reduced release times – with measurable successes such as 97% fewer bugs.

My mission: To create work cultures where people enjoy working and companies achieve excellent results. As the founder of Stepwise Growth, I support organizations in modernizing their collaboration, effectively establishing agile structures, and rethinking leadership – hands-on, empathetic, and goal-oriented.
  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Russian

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Cassel (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Freibeufler Stepwise Growth
    Interim Manager / Agile Coach
    March 2025 - Today (1 year and 3 months)
    Baunatal, Germany
    Introduction or optimization of agile working methods. Transformation of existing structures towards greater flexibility & adaptability. Support for managers in dealing with agile teams and their own roles. Step-by-step scaling of project and product organizations. Transformation of business units towards corporate agility. Taking on responsibility in a specific agile role (Scrum Master, Product Owner, etc.). Coaching of role holders. Agile workshops & hands-on training. Moderation of retrospectives, refinements, planning, and workshops.
    Certified Scrum Master Change and Transformation Management Product Management IT Project Management International Project Management
  • Volkswagen
    Chief Scrum Master / Project Enterprise v.2
    AUTOMOBILE
    December 2020 - October 2024 (3 years and 10 months)
    Wolfsburg, Germany
    Initial situation: Global pricing system threatened to fail due to the complexity of its introduction. 70 employees, 26 countries, 6 brands. My contribution: Introduction of Scaled Scrum, team setup, simplification of decision-making paths.
  • Volkswagen
    Scrum Master / Project End-to-End Vehicle Bill of Materials
    AUTOMOBILE
    January 2016 - September 2018 (2 years and 8 months)
    Wolfsburg, Germany
    Initial situation: Replacement of 25 IT systems with the central SAP landscape. The challenge lay in the complexity of the legacy IT, long release cycles, and close coordination between business departments and IT. My contribution: Introduction of Scaled Scrum, reorganization of test management, establishment of fast key-user feedback cycles, introduction of consistent agile requirements management. Result: Reduction of release times from 1.5 years to 0.5 years. Introduction of minor releases. Duration < 1 month. Reduction of bugs per release from approx. 800 to 20 per release. Elimination of the bug-fixing phase after each major release. Restructuring from a project to a product organization.

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Education

  • Agile IT Expert
    Auto Uni Wolfsburg
    2018
    Agiler IT Experte
  • Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
    Auto Uni Wolfsburg
    2019
    Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)

Certifications

  • Agile IT Expert Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) @ Volkswagen
    Auto Uni
    2019
    Lean Management Certified Scrum Professional Agile Testing Kanban Agile Coaching Agile Methodology (SAFe) Scaled Scrum LESS Requirement Engineering IT Project Management

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