People often ask “What exactly do you do?”
The short version: I help individuals, teams and organizations move in a direction that actually makes sense — for them.
Not every assignment is useful. Not every environment is ready. I only take on work where I believe I can contribute to real progress. In more than three decades, I never had to leave a mission prematurely. I simply don’t extend engagements when all signals show that my contribution would turn into decoration rather than impact.
Below you find the services I offer. All of them are things I’ve done for many years, in many environments, across industries, cultures and organizational maturity levels. None of this is theory. It’s lived practice.
Agile Coaching
From individual coaching to team development, all the way up to the C‑level.
I step in when an organization wants to become more adaptive but isn’t quite sure how to get there — or why things feel harder than they should. I work equally well in clean, fully agile environments and in the far more common “semi‑agile” ecosystems where waterfall, hierarchy and agile aspirations collide.
My style is pragmatic. No dogma. No rituals for the sake of rituals.
One of my sayings is: “I am not agile. I am the agility.”
Not because I claim perfection, but because agility is something you embody, not something you implement.
Product Owner / Business Analyst
Throughout my career, I have built almost everything you can imagine — and a few things you probably can’t.
The Product Owner role (in the Scrum Guide sense, but without worshipping the book) fits me naturally: shaping vision, structuring backlogs, bringing clarity when everything around is fog, and taking responsibility for value, not ceremonies.
Every new project still proves that my “I’ve built everything already” is gloriously wrong — and that’s the fun of it.
Workshop: “Agile Is a State of Mind”
A one‑day workshop for teams, departments or entire organizations.
This workshop is not a tool training and not a Scrum lecture.
It is an exploration of mindset, adaptability, human behavior, and why agility has far more to do with how we think than with how we plan.
It has been delivered to developers, managers, business departments, HR, finance, and everyone in between — in Belgium, Germany, India and beyond.
Participants leave with something practical: small personal measures to make their daily work a little more agile, without waiting for “the system” to change first.
Project Management in Semi‑Agile Environments
Some organizations want agility but still operate in rigorous waterfall structures. Others must coexist with external governance, compliance or supplier constraints.
This is where hybrid approaches shine — if done with intent rather than confusion.
I help organizations navigate this reality without falling into the trap of cosmetic agility (“stand‑ups by the book, thinking by the old rules”). I bring transparency, stakeholder alignment, and a sense of direction that respects both worlds.
Lead Developer (or Solo Developer)
Before becoming an Agile Coach, I was — and remain — a developer and architect at heart.
I can lead teams, mentor developers, design architectures, or simply build things myself when needed. My projects span ERP, Web, Cloud, Microservices, LIMS, POS, EAI, and more technologies and industries than I can reasonably list here without boring you.
Give me a codebase or a team. I’ll make both better than I found them.
About References and Past Projects
If you want to see project histories, technical achievements or agile case studies:
I maintain two reference documents — one for software engineering projects, one for agile environments.
They can be downloaded anytime from my website www.der-e-coach.de, always in their most recent version.
There is a small overlap between them, because real projects rarely stay within a single box.