About Patrycja
- Team leadership - I’ve helped 30+ teams on their way to team maturity.
- Risk management & problem solving - scope creeps, budget overruns, schedule delays, technical challenges, stakeholder misalignments, team's internal conflicts, and more - I’ve seen projects through numerous hardships and I know my way around them.
- Change management - I’ve helped a range of corporate and startup clients transform from Waterfall to Agile, and startups to gain clarity on their UVPs and ways of working.
- Budget management - I’ve managed projects ranging from non-profit to multi-million budgets.
- Stakeholder communication - I’ve worked with all levels of international organisations, startup founders, and C-levels, to branch managers, leads, specialists, consultants, and team members.
- Backlog management and feature prioritisation - I’ve led the full cycle of digital delivery, from requirements gathering, through project setup, backlog creation and refinements, to product deployments and versioning past MVP.
- Facilitation - only within the last 3 years, I’ve facilitated over 2k meetings and multiple workshops, including (but not limited to): scrum events, 1:1s, mentoring meetings, event stormings, product development sessions, project/product discovery, PM skills workshops, business value sessions.
English
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Polish
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Spanish
Basic
Slovak
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Experience
- Patrycja PlacheckaOwnerDIGITAL AND ITMarch 2024 - Today (2 years and 3 months)Poland, PolandMy mission is simple: helping passionate people create great products. I aim to simplify processes and deliver innovative ideas, always keeping user needs and business value in mind. By building a collaborative space where everyone can grow and contribute, I enable the people I work with to create products that thrill users and deliver great results for stakeholders.
- Netguru (software agency)IT Project ManagerJanuary 2022 - October 2023 (1 year and 9 months)Poland, PolandWorking closely with clients, I led cross-functional and remote teams with methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban. During that period, I facilitated over 2k meetings, including Scrum events and multiple workshops. By stepping in as an interim Product Owner, I gained hands-on experience in shaping the product lifecycle. To ensure the quality of delivery as a Project Manager, I managed risks, addressed blockers, and monitored budgets. Thanks to my interactions with all levels of the organization, from board members to experts and managers, I have developed an understanding of their business needs and perspectives.The list of workshops I facilitated includes, among others, event storming, project/product discovery, product development, user story mapping, kick-offs, junior PM's academy, and regular mentoring workshops.
- Hospice and Palliative Care ClinicProject ManagerJanuary 2021 - May 2021 (4 months)Poland, PolandI implemented a tailored hybrid approach, blending waterfall and agile methods in the projects I was leading at the time. This led to an improved processes of tackling project bottlenecks and finance management. Thanks to the various projects I've overseen to boost revenue, the clinic managed to sustain a high level of care despite the many challenges posed by COVID in the healthcare sector.
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Education
- Master's Degree: Business and Finance ManagementJagiellonian University2020
- Master's Degree: Journalism and Social CommunicationAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznan2019
Certifications
- Professional Scrum MasterScrum.org2023
- Designing product families: from strategy to implementationMIT Professional Education2021