Jarek Procházka, PhD.
Together with company leaders we build agile and innovative product culture where it makes sense and people want to. Usually, I work in pair to have more perspectives, various experience and utilize different talents. I also like to make my hands dirty, therefore I dive deeper in early implementation stages and provide on-the-job hands-on support. I’m also co-founder of 2 startups (QuickJOBS and SimplyIT.cloud) and experienced everything what I’m talking about, sometimes painfully 🙂
We try to drive all the change efforts and our work in a way to be joyfull and valuable for our clients, and for us. We believe, that such attitude and work environment defines also great products and services, but also workers taking this attitude and personal state with them to their homes.
I gathered my experience here:
- 20 years of leading change efforts, and building teams and products (for-profit, but also non-profit ones),
- running many innovation projects at small startups, various SMBs, as well as large banks, leading to successful products,
- 20+ years experience of teaching, lecturing, workshoping, coaching and mentoring (daily hands-on support of agile, lean and product transitions).
- 10 years hands-on experience in software development (Java EE, ME, MS Business Solutions, QI information system), support and maintenance (information systems and IT services).
- experience from telecommunication, banking, energy and public sector with the customers in Nothern and Western Europe.
- I trained about 5000 people over that time and cooperated on daily basis with roughly 1200 specialists and managers.
- I was part of TEDxOstrava core organizing team for a few years.
- Author of the book Operate IT differently, (in Czech), Grada, 2011.
- Author of books and free e-books.
- I earned also some certifications during that time, e,g,. (1) SEI/Carnegie Mellon University Software Architecture Professional Certificate in 2007 or (2) IBM Certified Solution Designer Rational Unified Process (RUP) v7.0 in 2009 or (3) Managers Certificate in IT Service Management (ITIL) in 2007 and ITILv3 Foundation in 2011. (4) Presentation, (5) Intercultural and (6) Negotiation skills were one of those most interesting. I also obtained some certifications due to the fact that I haven’t fallen asleep during 2 days (e.g. Certified Scrum Master in 2007 :))
The results of our early work are published, discussed and accepted by IT industry that is supported by our invitations and presentations at prestigious international conferences (see our presentations from European Lean IT summit 2011 or Information System Development 2010 or short video):
