Agile Coach & Scrum Master · Dortmund
Two services, one standard: PI Planning as a Service and Agile Coaching.
“Miracles between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.; the impossible takes a little longer.”
Services
We support agile organizations on two levels — on their own or combined. Pick what you need right now.
Your big-room plannings — effectively planned, facilitated and delivered. From advising your RTE to full service including travel, catering and event management.
Service lines LL1, LL5 and LL6 — see the scope
Guidance on the path to real agility — for teams, Scrum Masters, RTEs and leaders. So agile collaboration becomes a mindset, not just a method.
Service lines LL2, LL3 and LL4 — see the scope
Service 01 · PIPaaS
PIPaaS is the effective delivery of your Big-Room Plannings.
In PI Planning, the planning scope of all teams for the next Planning Interval is defined. This means that significant business decisions are made during PI Planning. A Planning Interval usually lasts around 3 months and spans several sprints of 2–4 weeks each.
In most organizations everyone travels to the PI Planning — anyone who can’t be on-site joins remotely, whenever the presence of all is required. PI Plannings usually take place every 12 weeks, often quarterly. This rare opportunity to bring everyone to one table should be used to the fullest.
In detail: what a PI Planning is, who attends, how the two days run — and where it fails in practice.
Process
Here’s how we work together — in four phases.
Clarifying the basics: stakeholders, teams and team sizes, location and travel readiness, further planning context.
Setting the basics, travel and location concept (who travels where, workshop location), catering and accommodation — hotels and catering.
Facilitating the central events: introduction to PI Planning, opening and organization, sorting stakeholders/business owners/teams, giving planning context, management review. Optional: team-building activity.
Q&A, feedback and lessons learned, next steps.
How those two days run in terms of content — whoever facilitates them — is set out item by item in the PI Planning agenda on our explainer page.
Maturity
Six levels on the path to the perfect PI Planning. Where are you — and what comes next?
Better predictability
Cross-team planning
Kick-off for scaled agility
Better exchange / team building
Relief for the RTE, more efficient PIP, lower travel costs
Synergies and cost reduction
This is usually where you pass through during the transformation — we are happy to support you here with agile coaching (→ Agile Coaching).
This is our home turf — here we take over for you: PIPaaS.
When external facilitation is worth it — and when it is not — is written up openly on the explainer page.
Agenda
The classic two-day PI Planning — extended with an optional Day 0 for team building, trainings and a company celebration. “Planning is already a bit of team building — so why not do it properly?”
“An army marches on its stomach” — breakfast, lunch and dinner are all thoughtfully planned in.
What sits behind each agenda item, and where PI Plannings fail in practice, is explained on What is a PI Planning?
Service lines
Every service is bookable on its own — no forced bundles, no minimum commitment. You are billed monthly for what you actually called off.
per PI Planning · 2 days · up to 80 participants
Facilitation of a two-day PI Planning including agenda design, preparation with business owners and teams, delivery and documentation of the results.
More than 80 participants? No problem.
We plan and facilitate larger groups too — variants 1a, 1b and 1c cover up to 80 participants, and the setup grows from there. From 81 participants two facilitators are firmly scheduled, so the breakouts are covered throughout as well.
per workshop · up to 8 hrs · up to 25 participants · on-site or remote
Role clarification, team kickoff, retrospective formats — preparation, delivery, follow-up and documentation included.
per session · 120 min · up to 12 people · on-site or remote
Facilitating Scrum events, team supervision and day-to-day support — regularly or on demand.
per session · 60 min · 1 person · remote or on-site
Leadership sparring, communication coaching, coach the coach and supervision.
per concept package · 1 deliverable · up to 8 hrs · remote
Analysis and design of coaching and development needs — the usual entry point before delivery starts.
per event · half day 4 hrs or full day 8 hrs · up to 80 participants
Facilitation of a team event including concept, delivery and follow-up.
Attach the team event to the same dates as a PI Planning with location (1b or 1c) and both share the trip and the venue — the event is billed as a combination rather than as a second event.
On request we handle hotels, travel and logistics for the participants end to end — bookable as an add-on to any event.
We put together a tailored quote after a short conversation. Let’s talk.
Service 02
Not every organization has arrived at PI Planning yet — and not every challenge is solved with a single event. We support you on the way there: in your transformation, in the team and in leadership.
Shaping the move into agile ways of working and scaled frameworks — from the first steps to your first real big-room planning.
Coaching for teams and for the key roles — Scrum Masters, Product Owners and RTEs — so agile collaboration really holds up day to day.
Authentic connection within the team and a fresh perspective on leadership — coaching for leaders who want to shape their role consciously.
Not sure where you stand yet? Let’s talk.
About us
We bring PI Plannings and agile collaboration to where they take effect — with experience from corporate environments, the public sector and event logistics.
I’m Tina Thieme — Agile Coach and Scrum Master based in Dortmund. More than ten years of professional experience have taken me from commercial purchasing through technical customer service and team leadership to executive assistance. Most recently, I planned and ran quarterly PI Plannings for around 180 people for the Digital Business Unit of KION AG, organized customer events and facilitated workshops. On top of that comes public-sector experience: as a benefits caseworker under SGB II, I processed citizen’s-allowance applications and supported protection cases with particular attention to data protection. Today I bring all of that together in six service lines around PI Planning as a Service and agile coaching.
Contact
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