My Services

Scale Smarter, Move Faster, Reduce Costs
I work with product and tech leaders to remove blockers, streamline organizations, and build systems that scale—without turning your company into a bureaucracy.
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If you're a CPO, CTO, or Engineering Leader...

You're probably facing one or more of these challenges:

High Operating Costs
Teams are busy, but you're not seeing the results. Manual processes, unclear priorities, and constant firefighting are eating time and money.
Slow Execution
You've hired smart people, yet decisions lag and shipping feels like dragging an anchor.
Scaling Pain
Growth is stalling autonomy and slowing teams. Dependencies creep in, and clarity fades.
Innovation & Strategy Challenges
You want discovery—but teams are drowning in delivery. Your big bets don't make it past the PowerPoint, and teams execute in fragments.

How I Help

Reduce Operating Costs and Complexity

  • Spot and eliminate hidden inefficiencies and org debt
  • Reduce rework, overhead, and manual coordination
  • Simplify team structures so they can focus on what matters

Accelerate Time-to-Market and Product Fit

  • Connect strategy to execution, end-to-end
  • Boost team autonomy without creating silos
  • Upgrade product ops to turn insight into impact, faster

Scale Without Breaking Execution

  • Design orgs that grow (or shrink) without chaos
  • Enable fast decision-making across functions
  • Build governance that aligns—without micromanagement

Strengthen Discovery and Innovation

  • Shift teams from ticket-taking to real problem-solving
  • Set up systems that support continuous innovation
  • Improve cross-functional collaboration and product thinking

Ready to scale smarter and reduce costs?

Let's discuss how I can help your organization move faster without the bureaucracy.

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Ways We Can Work Together

Executive Coaching for Product & Tech Leaders
Ongoing 1:1 or leadership team coaching for CPOs, CTOs, and Directors. Navigate complexity, align product and tech, and lead orgs that scale.
Org X-Ray: Deep-Dive Assessments
Get a fast, clear diagnosis of what's slowing you down—plus an actionable plan to fix it. Ideal for scale-ups, new leadership teams, or post-reorg cleanup.
Custom Leadership Training
Train your Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and Agile Coaches in practical, systems-focused ways of leading. No fluff, no frameworks-for-their-own-sake.
High-Impact Interventions
Need help right now? I run short, focused engagements to solve urgent challenges—like org redesigns, delivery breakdowns, or aligning teams to strategy.

What Leaders Say

"Viktor exemplifies a rare combination of technical expertise and empathetic leadership. In the year that I had the pleasure of working with Viktor, he brought his unique style of humility, deep agile knowledge, insightful observations around human dynamics, and patient coaching/teaching to every interaction."
Shawn Carney
VP of Engineering
"Viktor has been key in Viaplay's transformation toward Product Teams. His approach enables organizations to recognize where they need to change. What impressed me most about Viktor is his ability to carefully listen, capture, and understand team and group dynamics, and then present patterns back to them."
Ali Myftiu
Product Manager
"Viktor is one of the best Organizational and Agile coaches that I've had the opportunity to work with. His ability to quickly grasp business needs, frame up issues, and propose innovative solutions made him a great asset at Viaplay. His coaching style was truly inspirational—he often brought such clarity with simple, powerful questions or observations that created self-awareness and forward momentum!"
Angela Pejoska
Product Manager
"Viktor helped us during our organizational transformation to product and customer journey teams, and he was a crucial part of its success. He helped us analyze the root cause of our challenges and worked closely with our management team throughout the journey."
Johanna Belfrage
Head of Engineering
"Viktor doesn't only help organizations and teams to shift. He really applies coaching as his main driving factor, so he doesn't make the change—the orgs, teams, and people do with his guidance. Viktor has helped us open our eyes to new ways of thinking."
Alberto López
Director of Engineering
"Viktor is one of the best coaches I've worked with. Your organization needs him to uncover its hidden potential."
Magdalena Björkman
Engineering Manager
"Any organization would benefit from having Viktor Cessan around! The success of our transformation to a product-driven organization is in no small part down to his amazing work!"
Peter Allwin
VP of Engineering

Let's Get Started

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Contact Questionnaire

To help me understand your situation better, please answer a few quick questions. This will ensure our first conversation is as productive as possible.
Step 1 of 8
1
What organizational challenges are you currently experiencing?
Select all that apply
Teams are slow to deliver
Operating costs are too high
Scaling is creating chaos
Strategy isn't translating to execution
Too much time spent on coordination
Quality and reliability concerns
2
What best describes your company?
Startup
Small/Medium Enterprise
Large Enterprise
3
How many teams are you looking to improve?
This helps determine the scope of potential engagement
5 teams
4
Branch question
Did you know
5
Which best describes how your teams are coupled?
Independent - Teams own their full stack and deploy autonomously
  • Clear service boundaries
  • Independent deployments
  • Failures stay isolated
  • Teams rarely block each other
Loosely coupled - Some shared services but teams mostly deploy independently
  • Mix of independent and shared components
  • Most deployments are autonomous
  • Occasional coordination needed
  • Issues rarely cascade
Tightly coupled - Significant shared code/data requiring coordinated deployments
  • Many shared components or databases
  • Deployments often need coordination
  • Changes in one area often affect others
  • Testing requires multiple teams
Highly integrated - Most changes require multi-team coordination and carry system-wide risk
  • Monolithic or highly interconnected architecture
  • Deployments need extensive coordination
  • High risk of cascading failures
  • One team's change can break many others
6
How often do teams need to collaborate to deliver customer features?
Consider planning, development, testing, and deployment
Rarely - teams can deliver independently
Sometimes - occasional coordination needed
Often - most features require multiple teams
Always - can't ship without coordinating
7
Which of these dependency-related patterns do you recognize?
Select all that apply
Teams constantly waiting on each other
Excessive coordination meetings and planning sessions
Teams building duplicate solutions to avoid dependencies
Complex release coordination and dependency tracking
Unclear ownership and responsibility boundaries
Integration and testing bottlenecks
Design system inconsistencies and component conflicts
Did you know
8
What approaches have you already tried?
Select all that apply
Added more processes or governance
Agile or other methodology transformation
Team or department reorganization
New tools or platforms
External consultants
Haven't tried formal approaches yet
Insight
8
In an ideal scenario, when would you like to begin addressing these challenges?
Within 2 weeks
Within a month
Next quarter
Just exploring timelines
Summary of Your Situation
Based on your responses, here's what I understand about your organizational context:

Organizational Context

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      Currently accepting 2 new clients for 2025. If this sounds like a fit, let's discuss your specific situation.