Tomas Löfstrand
Tomas Löfstrand
RTE & Senior Agile Coach
Special Sauce
Extensive Agile coaching expertise
Public and private sector experience
Strong agile toolbox applied to major organisational transformations
Education
Linköping University
Master in Science, Applied Physics & Electrical Engineering, 2003
Certifications
SAFe 4.5 Program Consultant Scaled Agile
Certified Scrum Master
Agile Certified Practitioner
Certified Project Manager
Availability
Immediately
Languages
Swedish
English
Tomas is a senior Senior Agile Coach with almost 25 years of experience from the software development area. He has been promoting agility and been truly passionate about improving, learning, listening and leading since 2007. Tomas has a huge agile toolbox and a personality naturally suited for coaching and servant leadership. He has lead and supported agile transformations since 2010 (a Lean/Kanban journey at Fara in Norway and agility using the SAFe framework at the Swedish Tax Administration for example), but what Tomas wants most of all is to be close to “where it all happens” – the teams.
RTE & Agile Coach | Postnord
Nov 2020 - Current
KEY RESPONSIBILITY
Coaching the RTE, the Scrum Maters and the Product Owners. I have also been involved in teaching "SAFe for Teams" twice and holding short courses about Retrosepctives, User Stories, Features, SAFe, Objectives and more; all with great feedback.
Assessment Author | Pluralsight
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
Tomas wrote assessment questions within agile subjects for pluralsight.com
RTE & Agile Coach | Swedish Tax Administration [Skatteverket]
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
KEY RESPONSIBILITY
Working at the portfolio level, Tomas helped to introduce agile ways of thinking and working and implement SAFe in the department for taxation of real estates. Coaching the RTE, the Scrum Maters and the Product Owners. Holding short courses about Retrosepctives, User Stories, Features, SAFe, Objectives etc.
Agile Coach | Extenda
Sep 2016 - Aug 2018
Tomas worked as an Agile Coach supporting 12 software development teams at Extenda. The teams are located in three Swedish cities and two cities in Eastern Europe. The main goal was to help the teams in their quest to become highly effective and prosperous
Scrum Master | Scania
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Tomas lead and facilitated a development project in which an IoT platform was developed. This involved synchronizing and reporting to stakeholders, agile coaching and making the way forward smooth (but, as always, a learning process) for the development team.
Scrum Master | Swedish Customs
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Tomas was responsible for Scrum activities and test management in a project where the Swedish Customs integrated with the governmental service for safe digital messages, "My messages". As Scrum master, he served the project team and communicated with various stakeholders to facilitate an agile way of working.
Scrum Master | Norsskog
Dec 2013 - Apr 2014
Tomas was Senior Project Manager and Scrum Master in a development project for an operational system. In his role as Project Manager he was involved in planning, execution and follow-up (budget, time and quality), customer meetings and process improvements. Tomas also had the role as Service Manager.
Agile Coach | Neon Stingray
Jan 2013 - Jun 2013
The teams Tomas helped worked with streaming video applications. The teams worked in close collaboration with customers. Tomas contributed with process improvement work and agile coaching.
Agile Coach | Fara Asa
Oct 2012 - Jan 2015
Tomas worked as leader for several small distributed teams (with people in Trondheim, Warsaw and Nässjö) developing software for public transportation. He also contributed to the company by working with agile coaching and process development (introducing Lean and Kanban, strengthening the teamwork in the global team etc). Tomas worked wholeheartedly to create well-functioning teams over borders.
System Architect | Atodia
Aug 2007 - July 2011
Tomas was responsible for the architecture of the company's digital clipping process and media storage system. The team worked successfully with Scrum.