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Scrum Master & Delivery Manager · Tatra banka · Bratislava

Portrait of Marián Ščípa
Based in Bratislava

Agile Leader& DeliveryManager.

AI Adoption & Digital Transformation

Are you looking for an open-minded, creative and future-oriented person whose natural curiosity drives him to constantly learn and improve everything around him?

Who follows and inspires others to follow. Who explores innovative solutions and brings them to practice, contributing to business sustainability in the time of digital transformation.

Then you are probably looking for me :)

Let’s talk Download CV PDF · 2 pages LinkedIn

01 / One story

Lead the people.
Land the delivery.
Make AI useful.

  1. 01

    Agile leadership & coaching

    Developing teams, facilitation, collaboration and changing the way we work. Motivation and agility workshops, retrospectives people look forward to, Scrum master guild, SAFe, agile coaching.

  2. 02

    Delivery management

    Priorities, blockers, dependencies, communication and delivering value. Tens of product releases and enhancements across the bank’s mobile apps.

  3. 03

    AI adoption & people-oriented

    Practical experiments, usable workflows and sharing what works, so every role can automate repetitive work and focus on value.

02 / Experience

Where I do it.

Tatra bankaScrum Master & Delivery ManagerApril 2025 – presentBratislava, Slovakia

A leading bank in Slovakia for innovation and digital services. I lead an acquisition shared team that created the children’s mobile app TABI and heavily contributes to the main Tatra banka mobile app.

  • Large-team agile leadership. Scrum master of almost 40 people: backend, web and mobile frontend, testers, analysts, architects, product owner and business.
  • Delivery at volume. Led tens of product releases and enhancements, and several new cloud applications from scratch to production.
  • SAFe portfolio level. Quarterly planning of big epics across 3–5 teams: IT development, business, product, cloud and DevOps, database.
  • Among the top delivery managers by release volume in under two years (internal data), while leading one of the bank’s largest development teams.
  • Community. One of the most active members of the Scrum master guild, sharing agile coaching and SAFe leadership experience.

Selected deliveries

  • 01

    Financial health application

    Led development and deployment of an application that calculates and reviews clients’ financial health and suggests which areas to improve. Part of the mobile application portfolio, connecting mobile banking with a web application.

  • 02

    Digital account closure

    Led delivery of the digital closing of a bank account: a large, highly complex set of multiple applications working together end to end.

  • 03

    Digital term deposit management

    Leading development of an application that lets clients manage term (fixed-term) deposits digitally.

  • 04

    TABI enhancements for children

    Led enhancements of the children’s app, including games and a leaderboard that connect fun with a basic overview of personal finances.

Earlier

Dell Technologies, CBRE and IBM, across finance, business intelligence, product and agile coaching in international environments. Full history on LinkedIn.

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03 / Culture & talks

Process is the frame.
Energy is the engine.

Delivery does not get better because a framework says so. It gets better when people want to improve. That is why a big part of my work is motivation, learning and keeping our ceremonies alive.

Workshops

Motivation & agility workshops

I run workshops that help teams understand why agile ways of working matter, not just how to follow them, and that keep motivation high in a large, multi-role team.

Ceremonies

Retrospectives people look forward to

I bring fresh ideas and formats that revive our ceremonies, especially retrospectives, so they stay honest, engaging and useful instead of becoming routine.

Follow-through

Retro actions that actually close

Every improvement idea from a retrospective is recorded, given an owner and actively resolved, then checked at the next retro. The loop matters more than the meeting.

  1. Capture
  2. Own
  3. Resolve
  4. Review

Road to Productivity · From Will to Habit

A research-backed talk series I am preparing for colleagues: why we procrastinate, how to manage energy instead of time, and how small habits build lasting change. Available in English and Slovak.

Title slide: What if you never start?
Road to Productivity · Part 1 · 35 slides

Willpower Works: getting moving

Fear, clarity, energy and order. How to get moving when you don’t feel like it.

Open slides ↗
Title slide: Autopilot. Small steps, real change.
Road to Productivity · Part 2 · 21 slides

Autopilot: small steps, real change

How to move good decisions from willpower into habit, and make them stick.

Open slides ↗

04 / AI in practice

Tools I built to run a
40-person delivery machine.

Without these, managing this scope and team size would not be possible. Below are interactive illustrations of how they work. They use sample data only, never real bank data.

How the real ones work. Most of them live in Confluence and JIRA, so anyone on the team can open and use them without installing anything. The mock-ups below show the idea, not the actual screens.

One roof for the roadmap.

Visualises the delivery roadmap, key data and release status in one place. No more confusion about where we are, what we are releasing and where we are going.

Delivery roadmapsample data
JanFebMarAprMayJun
App ARelease 1Release 2Release 3
App BFeaturesCloud service
JointJoint release
today
Released In progress Planned

05 / The full file

Everything else,
one click away.

Career history, certifications, education, languages, awards, references and a bit about me. Pick a drawer, or press ⌘K / Ctrl K to jump straight to anything.

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  1. Scrum Master & Delivery Manager

    Tatra banka

    Agile leadership and delivery for one of the bank’s largest development teams (about 40 people): TABI, the main mobile app and new cloud applications. Details above.

  2. Senior Agile / SAFe Product Manager

    Dell Technologies

    IT development team for Compute & Storage capacity planning. Grew from Senior Scrum Master to Product Owner to Product Manager, driving agile at scale across multiple teams.

    More
    • Infrastructure forecasting with BI and data science
    • Product and sprint backlog management, product vision and strategy with team and org leaders
    • Team performance via POMA KPIs and SAFe: faster time to market, better quality
    • Coached the team in Agile, SAFe and BI; facilitated knowledge-sharing sessions
    • Co-founded the Bratislava Intelligent Business Automation (BIBA) program

  3. Business Intelligence Manager & Scrum Master

    Dell Technologies

    Established an agile environment and led the team that built BI infrastructure and applications from scratch.

    More
    • KPI and CPI automated reporting dashboards and analytics
    • Business performance management through automated reporting and insights
    • BI coaching and best practices for team members and other business units

  4. Project Manager & Scrum Master Trainee

    Dell Technologies

    Managed projects in the Telecom ICM Removal / Call Center Rationalization program, overseeing design of a new call center platform for EMEA and US.

    More
    • Automated and semi-automated BI dashboards across site and business-unit projects
    • Dell Bratislava CIO People (IT) Grow Pillar Lead: education sessions and growth of the local IT unit
    • “My Profile” project: skills, education and experience map with HR dashboards

  5. BI Data Analyst & Project Manager

    CBRE Corporate Outsourcing

    FMP system administration for the BP account, BI reporting solutions, Lean Six Sigma project support and account transition technology lead.

  6. Asset Management Analyst

    IBM

    E-shop administration, data analytics, education project lead, process improvement and user support.

  7. Finance Analyst (volunteer)

    Freelance

    Financial statement analysis, financial health analysis and financial planning for various companies during my studies.

  8. Intern

    Sfera

    Part-time support for a sales manager during university. Where it all started.

06 / Contact

Let’s build
what’s next.

mscipa007@gmail.com LinkedIn CV (PDF)

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