Friends
Welcome
This is the homepage of Rieke and Jan Behrens. We live and work in the lifestyle city of Christchurch, New Zealand. This page is a first attempt at a central information source for friends & family as well as business and research partners. We know that this is a bit of a broad focus, but nevertheless we thought it worth while to at least do one web presence right - instead of having multiple out of date ones.
About
A little bit on who we are and what we do.
Jan started his career in logistics before moving into computer science and project management. After receiving his BSc of Science from Oldenburg University (http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/en/) he worked for a R&D consultancy (http://www.offis.de/) as a consultant and project manager. This is where he got interested in agile principles. He moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2007 where he worked as a project manager and Scrum Master at House of Travel (http://www.hot.co.nz) - and later as acting solution architect and Java Application Development Manager. He has fostered the introduction of agile principles into the organisation and lead the first full time Scrum team at HOT. Jan's interests include software engineering best practices & principles, XP, coding in Java, team building, the problems around self organisation and acceptance of responsibility, and ways to scale Scrum (e.g. Scrum of Scrums).
Photo Sets
Links to some of our flickr photo sets. (Just click on the picture to open up the photo set in flickr.)
