Lorenz Hahn

Nerdic by nature I started my career as a software engineer in the area of hard real time operating systems where direct access to hardware and inavailability of usual debugging tools is the rule. One has to focus on a high level of software maintainability since the most effective tool for debugging in this context is a glance at the source code.
With that attitude I started as backend developer at ImmobilienScout24 responsible for the business critical backend systems. With the company growth it took a team to handle the development load on these systems so I became team lead. Back at that time the organisation was more tayloristic than agile. In 2008 another team lead in the development department and me changed the working mode of our teams to Scrum, initiating a change that quickly transformed the whole company.
We experienced a huge gain in quality of work, life and product. That was a so amazing experience that I felt the urge to spread the word - and I stuck to it. Since then I worked in various roles in different companies always helping my employers or clients to maximise their chances to become and stay economically successful by adopting agile values, procedures and best practices.