Current
Advisor · Enabler · Catalyst
Philipp Widmer
Release Train Engineer, Agile Coach & Scrum Master, passionate about Servant Leadership, continuous improvement and agile product development.
I am driven by advising and supporting people and teams, combined with evolving and applying technologies and processes. I love consulting and coaching — helping people unlock their full potential as a Servant Leader.
As a hands-on agile practitioner I value a methodical approach and a holistic view of challenges. My focus is on reflection and the continuous improvement that follows from it.
Experience
14 roles
25+ years
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09/2022 – 10/2024 2 years 2 months
Scrum Master / Agile Coach
Fostering self-organisation and continuous improvement in the teams; in the online-shop environment for Migros' specialty retail brands.
Onboarding, building up and supporting new teams.
Supporting the Release Train Engineer (RTE) with the tasks emerging in the agile release train.
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06/2021 – 08/2022 1 year 3 months
Scrum Master
Scrum Master for three product teams.
Member of the development management team for continuous improvement of cross-Scrum software-development topics.
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01/2021 – 05/2021 5 months
Agile Master / Scrum Master
Accompanying and coaching two product teams in the workflow environment.
Coaching the product owners of both teams.
Setting up and supporting the organisational evolution of the workflow environment together with other Agile Masters; in particular setting up an experiment to split a team.
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09/2019 – 12/2020 1 year 4 months
People Manager
Responsibility as Servant Leader and People Coach for the two CMS teams (12 employees).
Employee satisfaction at work (happy).
Individual productivity and contribution within the teams (productive).
Personal development of the employees (growing).
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03/2015 – 12/2020 5 years 10 months
Scrum Master / Agile Coach
Scrum Master of the Mobile App Team (SRF News / SRF Sport).
Scrum Master of the CMS team (srf.ch) — organised according to LeSS.
Evolving and establishing continuous improvement within the team and with further stakeholders.
Supporting and advising SRF-Online with regard to agile ways of working.
Technical and content realisation of an agile controlling solution with interfaces to Jira.
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03/2014 – 01/2015 11 months
Scrum Master
Scrum Master in the Lounge project (Phase II) — evolving zurich.ch with responsive design on the new Customer Experience platform (Sitecore).
Supporting and coaching internal and external developers in the Lounge project.
Supporting and advising the Product Owner and the business with regard to Scrum and agility.
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01/2014 – 02/2014 2 months
Head of CMS Teams
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06/2012 – 12/2013 1 year 7 months
Application Owner, IT Project Manager, Scrum Master
Scrum Master in the Lounge project — introducing zurich.ch with responsive design on the new Customer Experience platform (Sitecore).
Technical lead of the external development team in the Lounge project.
Supporting and advising the Product Owner and the business with regard to Scrum and agility.
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11/2009 – 05/2012 2 years 7 months
Head of Technical Production
Technical production management for Enterprise CMS and eCommerce.
Coaching and supporting project managers and developers.
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11/2006 – 10/2009 3 years
Project Manager, Application Developer
Project management for the evolution of a Human Resources information system.
Application development based on Visual Basic .NET.
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07/2006 – 09/2006 3 months
Research Associate
St. Gallen University of Applied Sciences -
03/2002 – 09/2003 1 year 7 months
Web Engineer / Web Programmer
TechTour AG -
12/1998 – 01/2002 3 years 2 months
Managing Director
Education
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2009 – 2011 2 years
Master of Advanced Studies ZFH in Project Management
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2003 – 2007 4 years
Wirtschaftsinformatiker FH (B.Sc. in Business Information Technology)
Skills
Leadership & Coaching
Servant Leadership
Coaching
Consulting
Facilitation
Methods
Scrum
Kanban
LeSS
Personal Kanban
Project Management
AI-Augmented Agility
Technology
IT Management
Software Development
Web & App Development
Prompt Engineering
AI Tooling
Languages
German (native)
English (fluent)
Contact
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Address Hofacherstrasse 4, 8634 Hombrechtikon, Switzerland
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