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Mike Leenaars

Transformation & Delivery Leader | Agile & DevOps

€1,000/day
Eindhoven, NL
15+ years

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About Mike

Transformation leader helping organizations translate strategy into predictable delivery and autonomous high-performing teams.
Transformation and Delivery leader helping organizations translate strategy into predictable and sustainable value delivery. Combines in-depth experience in Agile, DevOps and organizational change with strong coaching and stakeholder management skills.
Brings structure to complex environments by connecting strategy, governance, delivery and cultural change. Focuses on creating autonomous, high-performing teams and organizations that demonstrably deliver faster, more predictably, and with higher quality.
Known for connecting business, IT and leadership and realizing behavioral change that leads to lasting performance improvement.
Core Competencies
• Organizational and Agile transformations
• DevOps and Delivery performance improvement
• Leadership coaching and stakeholder alignment
• Operating model and governance setup
• Portfolio and value stream optimization
• Culture and behavioral change
• Team and people development
• Flow, predictability and performance metrics
• Complex stakeholder management
• Translating strategy into execution

Methodologies & Expertise
Agile | Scrum | Kanban | SAFe | Lean | DevOps
Organizational Change | Portfolio alignment | Governance
Flow optimization | Performance metrics | Continuous improvement
  • Dutch

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • IMIK Solutions
    Agile DevOps Coach
    DIGITAL AND IT
    June 2024 - Today (2 years)
    Helmond, Netherlands
    Ghostwriter for a book for professionals about cargo cults.
    - Blind copying: The term is used to refer to situations where someone copies the outward form of something without understanding the underlying principles or seeing the logic behind it.
    "Cargo cult agile": Applying agile methods like Scrum without embracing the underlying principles of collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement.

    Development of a two-day course for recognizing, preventing, or recovering from cargo cults.

    An advisory report to scan an organization for this to test our ideas.
    Agile Method Change and Transformation Management
  • ABN AMRO NL
    Agile DevOps Coach
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    December 2022 - May 2024 (1 year and 6 months)
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    A Grid consisting of multiple superblocks/clusters, which in turn have multiple teams/blocks, with a total size of 450 FTE. Agile maturity has decreased after the Scrum Master role disappeared; the teams want guidance to take the next steps for DevOps.
    Assignment:
    Improve Agile maturity.
    DevOps roadmap for the teams (after the team has migrated to the Azure DevOps environment).
    Involve business in the transformation.
    Interventions in teams for better sprint planning (no overcommitment), sprint goal, team charter, Agile Maturity Scan, etc.
    Set up PI planning event (SAFe) for the various superblocks and ultimately the entire Grid.
    Kickstart for Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, and support hackathon Continuous Delivery.
    Teams are looking more at the purpose of the various scrum events and improving on them.
    PI planning events rolled out for the entire Grid, with teams and stakeholders focusing more on improving predictability, risks, and dependencies.
    Teams are working on a roadmap for Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, using dashboarding and KPIs (e.g., DORA metrics) to monitor progress.
    Agile Method Continuous Integration Digital Transformation Change and Transformation Management Coaching
  • IMIK Solutions BV
    Founder & Owner
    DIGITAL AND IT
    January 2008 - Today (18 years and 5 months)
    Helmond, Netherlands
    Transformation & Delivery Leader | Agile & DevOps at Scale | Organizational Change & Leadership Coaching

    Transformation and Delivery leader helping organizations translate strategy into predictable and sustainable value delivery. Combines in-depth experience in Agile, DevOps and organizational change with strong coaching and stakeholder management skills
    change-and-transformation-management Coaching Change and Transformation Management

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Education

  • Ing., Higher Information Technology
    Hogeschool West Brabant
    1997
    Ing., Hogere Informatica
  • HAVO, Beta
    Schaepman College
    1989
    HAVO, Beta

Certifications

  • SAFe for teams
    Gladdwell
    2018
    SAFe
  • SAFe DevOps
    Gladdwell
    2019
    SAFe Devops

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