Mihai is a Scrum.org certified Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and a PMI Authorized Training Partner Instructor, delivering courses to teams in Dublin, Warsaw, Oslo, Paris, Bucharest and Chisinau.

Mihai is leading PM Access’ Agile division and he is a co-founder of the Agile Minds Romania community.

Over the course of more than 15 years he has inspired and led software development teams in fields like medical, telecom, airspace & defense, software distribution, e-commerce, etc.
From these interactions he has learnt that collaboration is the most valuable aspect contributing to product success.
Working with very different development life cycles along the years, Mihai has recognized the value of agile approaches to software development and he became their promoter inside organizations and also as an agile community speaker for conferences, meetups and events.

His favorite work method remains Scrum, yet Mihai recognizes the benefits of teams who are able to apply more complementary methods like Extreme Programming, Kanban and DevOps, thus delivering higher value towards reaching business objectives and clients’ high standards.

mihai.olaru@pmaccess.ro
http://ro.linkedin.com/in/mihaiolaru

Experience

  • 16 years of leadership experience in roles of project management, scrum master or program management
  • 14 years of training experience
  • 6 years of Agile coaching experience
  • More than 1650 students trained during 2200 hours
  • PMI Certified - since 2025 - Authorized Training Partner Instructor
  • PST Certified - since 2021 - Professional Scrum Trainer by Scrum.org
  • PSM III Certified - since 2021 - Professional Scrum Master Level III by Scrum.org
  • PSPO I Certified - since 2020 - Professional Scrum Product Owner Level I by Scrum.org
  • PSK I Certified - since 2019 - Professional Scrum with Kanban by Scrum.org
  • PSM II Certified - since 2017 - Professional Scrum Master Level II by Scrum.org
  • PMI-ACP Certified - since 2015 - Agile Certified Practitioner by PMI
  • PMP Certified - since 2009 - Project Management Professional by PMI
  • CNFPA (ANC) Certified Trainer – since 2009 - by ANC

Specialties

  • Working with cross-functional teams
  • Agile estimation and planning techniques
  • Collaboration tools and techniques
  • Product Management
  • Remote work and communication principles

Sustained trainings

Articles, Papers