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Jochen (Joe) Krebs, is an agile coach, trainer and consultant and most important practitioner. In 2005, Joe founded Incrementor, a consulting company specialized in helping organizations with the successful adoption of agile processes (Scrum, XP, Lean and other iterative-incremental processes) either on a corporate enterprise-level or team-level. His programs are characterized by a unique blend of knowledge transfer with hands-on work. In 2008/2009 for example, he transformed AOL from waterfall to agile project management with Scrum which impacted the daily life of at least 3,000 employees around the globe. The transformation included up to 100 agile project teams with an average of 40-60 projects performing in parallel. For more than 15 years, he has been focusing on agile project management, leadership, organizational transformation and agile development.
Joe worked as a team member, Scrum Master, Product Owner and guided small and large project teams through a successful transition as a coach. More recently, Jochen began to deliver targeted workshops to customers who would like to improve project success by improving communication and collaboration.
During his career, he has taught thousands of professionals in Scrum, Object-Orientation, Requirements Management (User Stories or Use Cases) or object-oriented programming languages. He has successfully delivered services and training courses in 46 of the 50 United States, Canada, Mexico, India, Germany, Switzerland, UK and France. He has also been delivering training courses with both creators of Scrum ; Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.
Joe gained experience in several industries including manufacturing, finance, retail and media. Major stepping stones were Mercedes-Benz, ParcPlace, Valtech, IBM and AOL and of course INCREMENTOR. Like other key players in the agile community, Jochen's agile career began with the Smalltalk programming language in 1990s.
Joe is the author of Agile Portfolio Management and the RUP Reference and Certification Guide and he speaks occasionally at local chapter events as well as conferences. He also published numerous articles in magazines about agile practices and processes. In 2007, Joe became founded AGILE NYC, and became a vital player in the local agile community by organizing user group events in the largest city in the USA. In 2010, Joe organized the first AGILE DAY (September 15th), a 1-Day conference from New Yorkers for New Yorkers. On September 27th 2011, the Agile Day will grow to an approximately 250 person event. In 2010, Joe began recording podcasts with speakers who presented to the User Group, known as the Agile NYC Podcast. The episodes are either available through RSS feed or iTunes subscription.
His style is probably best described by using feedback from some of my past students and clients:
"Best Scrum training I've had".
"Very hands-on, great instructor".
"I am pumped-up!".
"Energetic, entertaining, gets people involved".
"Great presentation skills, kept everyone involved and had great real life examples".
"He was excellent. Very knowledgeable, high energy, responds well to all questions".
"I really enjoyed Jochen's teaching style".
"He made it easy and entertaining".
"Where were you when I was in high-school?".
"Very knowledgable. Maintained an atmosphere conducive to participation".
"He kept it real. We used simple examples people could relate to. He was funny and entertaining".
"Very knowledgable, flexible, patient and approachable".
"Joe not only understands the course content but he also knew how it applies to the real world. Joe did an excellent job explaining the concepts and mentoring us on how to apply them. Joe also connected well with the students".
"Hands-on - like that. Joe rules. Keep rockin'. Thx".
"Most interactive training I had ever attended. Trainer is always available and very knowledgable"
"He teaches to the point, precise, very confident".
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| 16-bit Intel 8088 chip |
with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disk drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write on) disks in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.
Charles Bukowski
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| Scrum Power Pack's |
After four successful Scrum Power Pack's with Ken Schwaber , INCREMENTOR has scheduled one more "Pack" this Spring in NYC. On April 16th - 18th 2012 you can join us for this 3-day event which consists of a Professional Scrum Master (PSM) and the INCREMENTOR Scrum Workshop. We recommend to act fast, not only because the Early Bird window will close, but the last Power Pack in NYC was sold out early.
During the Scrum Workshop we will be focusing purely on exercises, case studies, games, ad-hoc facilitation and shared practical experiences with a Zero-Powerpoint policy. This workshop serves as an ideal intensifier for everyone who took the Professional Scrum Master course with Ken, or everyone who had participated in Scrum training courses in the past. It is a great way to learn or recap by doing. Please keep in mind, that I usually focus on on-site private seminars directly with our customers. Very rarely, I offer public enrollment seminars. These are a few of them.
04/16-04/18/2012 - Enrollment for Scrum Power Pack New York City
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| Reader's Feedback - Thank You! |
"This book (Agile Portfolio Management) is very well written - it is easy to read and is interesting and useful throughout. I am a business analyst/project manager with recent PMP and ITIL v3 certifications. I found this book to be a valuable tool in expanding my skills and strategies in both these job roles. I find Jochen's many suggestions to be practical, useful, and logical."
-Eddie Campanelli
"In Agile Portfolio Management, Jochen sees both, the forest and the trees."
-Israel Gat, Cutter Consortium - The Agile Executive
"So many books concentrate on the intricate details behind running an Agile IT project I however wanted to look at the Strategic benefits Agile brings to the Organization to see how well it would support Six Sigma. Even though the book does not describe using Agile in a Six Sigma environment, anyone that has been in the industry for a while will be able to get a good overview of Agile and using their own knowledge be able to see from this book how the Agile approach to the IT portfolio can interconnect with current best IT portfolio management practices.
For anyone in Management wanting to get a quick understanding of Agile in action, I recommend this book"
-Charles Hunter, Innovative Senior Business Technology Consultant with Senior Project Management and Senior Business Analysis experience.
"Excellent additional reading to build on key concepts of balancing Agile and Discipline."
-Gregory J.D. Smith, Medical Software Trainer
"Excellent background and overview of roles and responsibilities utilizing in managing and Agile or Scrum portfolio."
-Gary Stolpa, Agile Implementation Manager
"Explains nicely how agile projects can be married with the organization at large, contrasts it with the traditional approaches and hints on pitfalls and how to avoid them."
-Michael Kaestner, CIO COMIT
"A different take on the Agile approach placing it well in the whole buisiness context. Along with Barry Boehm and Steve McConnell's articles helps in where and when to apply Agile methods."
-Gordon McDonald, NPD Engineering Manager
"This morning I passed the test successfully and the book proved to be
very useful in preparing for the examination."
-Gert Helsen, Capgemini Belgium
"During my studies the book IBM Rational Unified Process Reference and Certification Guide: Solution Designer (RUP) was the best reference that I've found and It helped me a lot to became an IBM Certified Solution Designer RUP V7."
-Fernando Dantas, IBM Brazil
If you found the book(s) helpful and would like to provide a quote, please send me an e-mail.
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