Frederik Metz, Munich. Curriculum vitae
Department Manager, Agile Enablement at MediaMarktSaturn in Munich. I build AI tools on the side.
Department Manager, Agile Enablement at MediaMarktSaturn. Before that founder, consultant, and startup operator.
Experience
Four chapters, from startups to leading a coaching department.
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2023 to now Strategic Leadership Now
Department Manager, Agile Enablement
MediaMarktSaturn, Munich
MediaMarktSaturn, Department Manager Agile Enablement. I lead 14 coaches supporting around 800 engineers. Measurably improved delivery reliability across coached teams, cut idea-to-live cycle time, halved cross-team dependency cycle time, embedded outcome-based planning. Architect the system, coach the coaches.
- Founded and lead the Agile Enablement function: 14 coaches supporting around 800 engineers.
- Implemented a product operating model across three value streams and twelve teams. Idea to live improved from twelve weeks to eight weeks within two quarters.
- Built a coaching metrics system. Delivery reliability across coached teams increased from 60 percent to 78 percent within six months.
- Reduced cross team handoffs by 35 percent through dependency mapping and WIP rules. Dependency cycle time dropped from ten days to five days.
- Established outcome based planning. Share of work with defined success metrics rose from 30 percent to 85 percent within two quarters.
- Introduced portfolio decision forums. Decision latency from request to go decreased from fourteen days to six days.
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2021 to 2023 Founder Reality Check
Co-Founder
Automateagile (part-time)
Co-founded Automateagile. Jira automation that cut backlog admin time 25% for 120 users. Commercial risk with my own name on it.
- Rolled out Jira automation and templates to two enterprise clients. Backlog administration time per team reduced by 25 percent for 120 users.
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2018 to 2021 Corporate Scale
Senior Consultant, Agile Transformation
Capgemini Invent
Capgemini Invent, Senior Consultant. 10 enterprise transformations, 25 trainings delivered, 100+ roles enabled. Learned to formalise, teach, and scale what startups do by instinct.
- Led ten enterprise level transformations focused on structure, roles and flow. Median cycle time improved by 20 percent within the first two quarters.
- Delivered twenty five trainings and enabled more than one hundred roles across product and technology.
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2013 to 2017 Native Agility
Early career
McMakler, HRS Group / Conichi, Stern Stewart & Co
Startups first: scaled regional operations at McMakler, MVP product work at HRS Group and Conichi, analytical foundation at Stern Stewart. Agile by survival, not by framework.
- McMakler: scaled regional operations through data driven management and efficiency improvements.
- HRS Group / Conichi: worked at the interface of product and technology on MVP driven initiatives.
- Stern Stewart & Co: supported C level consulting projects and built strong analytical and structuring skills.
Applied AI
The part most CVs cannot show.
I run my own AI operation: multi-agent orchestration in production, supervisor-worker patterns across Claude and Codex, an evening build cadence that ships real products. Not prompting fluency, working systems.
Foundations
Education, certifications, languages.
- Education
- M.Sc. Management and Technology, Technical University of Munich. Oxford Fintech Programme, Said Business School.
- Certifications
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
- Certified LeSS Practitioner
- Professional Scrum Master I
- SAFe 5 Agilist
- Languages
- German (native), English (native), Slovak (fluent), Spanish (fluent).
A running catalogue of shipped, live products, from Workshopmatic to OKR Orca to mucwahl.de, lives on the homepage.