Ivan Petković

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ABOUT IVAN PETKOVIĆ

I lead Technical Program Management and coach product leaders to align KPIs with engineering reality. My focus: organizational transparency, decision cadence, and measurable flow. The system is simple: visible queues, small batch sizes, and a handful of metrics leaders actually use. I translate KPIs into engineering signals such as lead time, cycle time, and investment profiles, then coach leaders and teams to decide faster with less noise. I favor directness and measurable effects over ceremony. Portfolio reviews become working meetings, not slide theatre. Leaders get faster choices and teams face fewer escalations. I combine soft and hard skills. Facilitation, feedback culture, and conflict navigation sit next to architecture aware methods like Team Topologies, Domain-Driven Design, and Wardley Mapping. When structure meets dialogue, throughput and predictability improve. Leaders gain a shared view of trade-offs, teams get clearer interfaces, and escalations drop.At XING I lead Technical Program Management. I partner with engineering and product leadership to shape decision cadence, hiring focus, and delivery flow. I also take selective freelance engagements through ipcoaching.eu, helping enterprise product orgs install transparent steering without bureaucracy.Open to Director or Head of Technical Program Management roles across Germany and EU remote. Also open to fractional TPM and leadership coaching focused on metrics, decision making, and cross-functional collaboration. If your roadmap needs clarity fast, we should discuss scope, outcomes, and timing first.