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).

He is a Certified Scrum Master, co-founder of the Agile Users Group Christchurch (http://behrens.co.nz/agile/), and a member of the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN).

Rieke ... will follow soon...