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News: I published the 2nd edition of Agile Softwareentwicklung in großen Projekten: Teams, Prozesse und Technologien - Strategien für den Wandel im Unternehmen!
I am an experienced independent coach, consultant, and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany, for agile software development.
My know-how in agile processes is based on over ten years experience in developing object-oriented applications. I am an experienced XP, and agile process coach and trainer. I have worked with teams using agile processes successfully on medium-sized to large mission-critical projects. As a coach I'm focusing on the process as well as on the quality and on soft factors like communication. I work also as a facilitator for retrospectives. With retrospectives I help my clients to improve their software engineering process.
Besides engineering software I have been designing and teaching OT courses in industry. Having completed a course of teacher training and led many 'train the trainer' programs in industry, I focus also on techniques that help to teach object technology and I am a main lead in the pedagogical patterns project. I have presented work in my main areas at conferences such as ACCU (UK), OOPSLA (USA), SPA (UK), XP (Europe) and Agile (USA). I am a member of the AgileAlliance (I have served the board of directors from 2003-2007), a supporter of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and a member of several Interest Groups.
Now published: My latest work is on Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams: Staying Agile in a Global World, published by Dorset House. The according book has been published in German as 'Agile Softwareentwicklung mit Verteilten Teams') by DPunkt.Verlag.
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I've recently been elected into the Top 100 most important persons of the German IT!