Thomas Schissler

Thomas comes from a developer background working more than a decade as a software developer with Microsoft technologies. He then worked several years as a Project Manager with classic waterfall methodologies before he discovered agile as his new favorite approach. He run his first agile project in 2005 and started using Scrum in 2008. In 2010 he joined scrum.org and became a PSD.Net Trainer. Since this time he helped numerous individuals and companies to introduce or improve scrum. He does trainings and works with teams helping to improve their agile skills. For Thomas this not only means to understand and adopt scrum but to get the best out of agile practices like continuous delivery, test automation, self-organized teams, build-measure-learn and many others. From his broad background and experiences he is able to teach developers using these practices. His current passion are agile testing practices which allows teams to deliver in a very high quality by using techniques like Unit Testing, TDD, automated UI Tests and more. Additionally he is very passionate about agile architecture to allow teams to create testable and maintainable code to lower costs for new features.

He worked almost his whole time as a professional with Microsoft technologies. He is focused on Microsoft Visual Studio ALM and Team Foundation server and has been continuously awarded since 2007 with the Microsoft MVP award for Visual Studio ALM. He is a community player, running a local user group and speaking regularly on German conferences. He is also open to other agile methodologies beside Scrum like Kanban trying to get out the best of all this for the specific scenarios of his customers. A big advantage for him are the 4 teams he is coaching at his company which are the first to proof new ideas and giving feedback from real world projects.