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Jul 21, 2020
Peter and Thomas make a great team of…
Peter and Thomas make a great team of trainers for their students. Both are very friendly, professional and teach with passion and fun. I thoroughly enjoyed the class. Thank you!
Ravi Vajaria
Jul 3, 2020
Toller Trainer und großartiges Training dessen Wert ich vorab extrem unterschätzt habe
Während der Recherche nach einem Scrum Master und Product Owner Training auf der Scrum.org Seite stieß ich auf das Professional Scrum Developer Training. Nachdem ich Anfangs etwas skeptisch war ob uns dieses Training etwas bringt, oder ob es nicht reicht einfach nur den Scrum Master zu schulen, der dann alle Entwickler bei uns fortbildet, entschloss ich mich das Training trotz meiner Bedenken für das gesamte Team zu buchen. Diese Entscheidung stellte sich als sehr gut heraus.
Thomas ist ein sehr erfahrener Trainer, der Theorie und Praxis aus der "ge- / erlebten Praxis" heraus schult. Anstatt uns einfach nur Scrum Grundlagen mit Folien zu erklären machte er uns anhand einer kurzweiligen Fallstudie sehr praxisnah deutlich welche Probleme auftreten wenn die Scrum Werte nicht gelebt werden, oder Elemente von Scrum wegrationalisiert werden. Durch diese Vorgehensweise kam es im Team viel schneller zu Aha-Erlebnissen, als dies über den Weg, dass nur der Scrum Master geschult wird und er seine Erfahrungen dann weiter gibt, möglich gewesen wäre.
Thomas Empfehlung, dass neben dem Dev-Team auch Scrum Master und Product Owner teilnehmen sollten stellte sich als sehr vorteilhaft heraus. So hatten auch die beiden anderen Rollen die Möglichkeit über die eigene Rolle zu reflektieren und neue Anstöße für die Praxis mitzunehmen.
Mein Fazit zum Training ist, dass es nicht nur sehr viel Spaß gemacht hat, sondern wir viele neue Impulse für unsere tägliche Zusammenarbeit mitnehmen konnten. Ich habe den Eindruck, dass unser Team durch diese Schulung noch einmal richtig Fahrt aufgenommen hat und kann das PSD Training deshalb nur wärmstens empfehlen. Im Nachhinein hätten wir den Kurs schon viel früher buchen sollen.
André Krämer
Jul 1, 2020
Best Scrum.org course there is. Period.
Peter and Thomas are a great trainer pair that provided a fantastic environment for learning to happen. This PSD course had a huge impact on me because I experienced first hand the many challenges a Development Team is faced with. And even though you were just explained what to focus on, when the pressure is high, you easily fall back into a firefighting mode.
Of all the Scrum.org courses I have attended, this is my favorite in terms of learning impact and eye openers. And I would highly recommend Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and managers that work with Scrum Teams to attend this course together with their Development Teams. I believe software development is foremost a communication and collaboration challenge. So I’d suggest to first seek to understand the different roles involved.
Matthijs de Booij
Jul 1, 2020
As a PST student I had good learning…
As a PST student I had good learning experience.. especially with Battlefield case study which not part of my earlier trainings that I attended.
Nisha Patel
Jul 1, 2020
Awesome Scrum experience from the perspective of a Development Team!
Full transparency: I'm a Professional Scrum Trainer myself and had the opportunity to participate in this Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) class with Peter Götz and Thomas Schissler. As someone who knows Scrum very well in the roles of a Scrum Master, Product Owner and stakeholder, this course was an amazing Scrum experience from the perspective of a professional Scrum Development Team. During three days we delivered Increments in a series of Sprints and learned to become more professional by embodying and living the responsibilities of a professional Development Team that "owns" quality and regularly meets the Sprint Goal by delivering „done" Increments. I would like to recommend every Scrum Master and Product Owner to visit this PSD course with Peter and Thomas to experience for yourself how Scrum feels as a Development Team.
Johannes Geske
Jul 1, 2020
Amazing virtual training experience
Amazing virtual training experience. Great learning with the work in small group and with the whole audience.
Olivier Ledru
Jul 1, 2020
Amazing class to learn Scrum
I really like how the class was delivered and it was very helpful to see software in action in real scrum development team role playing.
Guillem Hernandez Sola
Jun 29, 2020
Great experience
I really liked the practical approach of this class. The "designed to fail" Sprint 1 may be kind of discouraging at first, but after few little changes inside the team and a more team oriented approach by the Product Owner (played by the teacher), the benefits of Scrum really come to shine in the following Sprints, namely the close interchange inside the Dev team itself and between the Dev team and the PO.
The actual task for the project was fun as well.
Also, the constant switching between theory and practical tasks, with little breaks in between, gave the whole 3 day experience a dynamic feel without getting boring or tiresome.
Alexander Dell
Jun 27, 2020
One of the best classes I ever had
One of the best classes I ever had. Thomas is a well experienced trainer. His teaching methods are unique. I really enjoyed the class and recommend it to anyone working in a Scrum Team.
Andrej Reimer
Feb 19, 2020
Very good Training and good discussion…
Very good Training and good discussion with the trainer
Dirk Westphal
Dec 5, 2019
Great trainer, great course!
Thomas is a great trainer with a lot of hands on experience in the software development industry! The class was both joyful and with lot of insights and learnings.
Thanks for 3 great days of training in Poland Thomas
Sahin Ozdemir
Jul 18, 2019
Great Training
Trainer was well prepared; all materials and exercises were very good.
Additionally, the trainer was very knowledgeable and had good answers for all our questions about scrum and all related technologies and practices.
Training was fun, thank you a lot.
Bernd Goldschmidt
Jun 28, 2019
Agile Software Development Experience with PSD Course
I really loved the topics of the course. Especially Emergent Architecture and Quality Software. Great content with great trainers makes me understand the essence of the topic.
ilkay Polat
Apr 6, 2019
perfect start
For me - without any scrum experiences - this was a perfect way to start my scrum Business way of life
Patrick Gebhard
Feb 26, 2019
Die Inhouse-Schulung an sich top
Die Inhouse-Schulung an sich top! Konkret im Arbeitsumfeld wäre eine andere Vorgehensweise sinnvoller gewesen. Dies hat aber nichts mit der Schulung an sich zu tun.
Michael Forster
Feb 11, 2019
Very good training
Very good training. Afterwards you definitely know how SCRUM works and you already did the process four times.
David Weisgerber
Jan 21, 2019
I would very much recommend this training with Peter Götz
I would recommend this training with Peter Götz to any friend and colleague. His workshop is very well structured while at the same time he keeps a sense for spontaneity to answer questions and fill explanations with one of his many experiences in this field. I feel that I have learned very much and had a very fun time during that training.
SD
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Thomas's Bio
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 ran 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 is DevOps which brings great benefits for organizations by gaining the ability to deliver software in shorter release cycles. Additionally he is very passionate about agile architecture to allow teams to create testable and maintainable code to balance sustainability with optimum value creation.
He worked almost his whole time as a professional with Microsoft technologies. He is focused on Microsoft Visual Studio and Azure DevOps and has been continuously awarded since 2007 with the Microsoft MVP award. He is a community player, running a local user group and speaking regularly on German and international conferences. He is also open to other agile methodologies beside Scrum like Kanban combining the best out of each, for the specific scenarios of his customers.
As one of two stewards he keeps the curriculum of the PSD training up to date for scrum.org and the PST community.
Spoken Languages
- German
- English
Courses taught by Thomas
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Jul 21, 2020
Peter and Thomas make a great team of…
Peter and Thomas make a great team of trainers for their students. Both are very friendly, professional and teach with passion and fun. I thoroughly enjoyed the class. Thank you!
Ravi Vajaria
Jul 3, 2020
Toller Trainer und großartiges Training dessen Wert ich vorab extrem unterschätzt habe
Während der Recherche nach einem Scrum Master und Product Owner Training auf der Scrum.org Seite stieß ich auf das Professional Scrum Developer Training. Nachdem ich Anfangs etwas skeptisch war ob uns dieses Training etwas bringt, oder ob es nicht reicht einfach nur den Scrum Master zu schulen, der dann alle Entwickler bei uns fortbildet, entschloss ich mich das Training trotz meiner Bedenken für das gesamte Team zu buchen. Diese Entscheidung stellte sich als sehr gut heraus.
Thomas ist ein sehr erfahrener Trainer, der Theorie und Praxis aus der "ge- / erlebten Praxis" heraus schult. Anstatt uns einfach nur Scrum Grundlagen mit Folien zu erklären machte er uns anhand einer kurzweiligen Fallstudie sehr praxisnah deutlich welche Probleme auftreten wenn die Scrum Werte nicht gelebt werden, oder Elemente von Scrum wegrationalisiert werden. Durch diese Vorgehensweise kam es im Team viel schneller zu Aha-Erlebnissen, als dies über den Weg, dass nur der Scrum Master geschult wird und er seine Erfahrungen dann weiter gibt, möglich gewesen wäre.
Thomas Empfehlung, dass neben dem Dev-Team auch Scrum Master und Product Owner teilnehmen sollten stellte sich als sehr vorteilhaft heraus. So hatten auch die beiden anderen Rollen die Möglichkeit über die eigene Rolle zu reflektieren und neue Anstöße für die Praxis mitzunehmen.
Mein Fazit zum Training ist, dass es nicht nur sehr viel Spaß gemacht hat, sondern wir viele neue Impulse für unsere tägliche Zusammenarbeit mitnehmen konnten. Ich habe den Eindruck, dass unser Team durch diese Schulung noch einmal richtig Fahrt aufgenommen hat und kann das PSD Training deshalb nur wärmstens empfehlen. Im Nachhinein hätten wir den Kurs schon viel früher buchen sollen.
André Krämer
Jul 1, 2020
Best Scrum.org course there is. Period.
Peter and Thomas are a great trainer pair that provided a fantastic environment for learning to happen. This PSD course had a huge impact on me because I experienced first hand the many challenges a Development Team is faced with. And even though you were just explained what to focus on, when the pressure is high, you easily fall back into a firefighting mode.
Of all the Scrum.org courses I have attended, this is my favorite in terms of learning impact and eye openers. And I would highly recommend Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and managers that work with Scrum Teams to attend this course together with their Development Teams. I believe software development is foremost a communication and collaboration challenge. So I’d suggest to first seek to understand the different roles involved.
Matthijs de Booij
Jul 1, 2020
As a PST student I had good learning…
As a PST student I had good learning experience.. especially with Battlefield case study which not part of my earlier trainings that I attended.
Nisha Patel
Jul 1, 2020
Awesome Scrum experience from the perspective of a Development Team!
Full transparency: I'm a Professional Scrum Trainer myself and had the opportunity to participate in this Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) class with Peter Götz and Thomas Schissler. As someone who knows Scrum very well in the roles of a Scrum Master, Product Owner and stakeholder, this course was an amazing Scrum experience from the perspective of a professional Scrum Development Team. During three days we delivered Increments in a series of Sprints and learned to become more professional by embodying and living the responsibilities of a professional Development Team that "owns" quality and regularly meets the Sprint Goal by delivering „done" Increments. I would like to recommend every Scrum Master and Product Owner to visit this PSD course with Peter and Thomas to experience for yourself how Scrum feels as a Development Team.
Johannes Geske
Jul 1, 2020
Amazing virtual training experience
Amazing virtual training experience. Great learning with the work in small group and with the whole audience.
Olivier Ledru
Jul 1, 2020
Amazing class to learn Scrum
I really like how the class was delivered and it was very helpful to see software in action in real scrum development team role playing.
Guillem Hernandez Sola
Jun 29, 2020
Great experience
I really liked the practical approach of this class. The "designed to fail" Sprint 1 may be kind of discouraging at first, but after few little changes inside the team and a more team oriented approach by the Product Owner (played by the teacher), the benefits of Scrum really come to shine in the following Sprints, namely the close interchange inside the Dev team itself and between the Dev team and the PO.
The actual task for the project was fun as well.
Also, the constant switching between theory and practical tasks, with little breaks in between, gave the whole 3 day experience a dynamic feel without getting boring or tiresome.
Alexander Dell
Jun 27, 2020
One of the best classes I ever had
One of the best classes I ever had. Thomas is a well experienced trainer. His teaching methods are unique. I really enjoyed the class and recommend it to anyone working in a Scrum Team.
Andrej Reimer
Feb 19, 2020
Very good Training and good discussion…
Very good Training and good discussion with the trainer
Dirk Westphal
Dec 5, 2019
Great trainer, great course!
Thomas is a great trainer with a lot of hands on experience in the software development industry! The class was both joyful and with lot of insights and learnings.
Thanks for 3 great days of training in Poland Thomas
Sahin Ozdemir
Jul 18, 2019
Great Training
Trainer was well prepared; all materials and exercises were very good.
Additionally, the trainer was very knowledgeable and had good answers for all our questions about scrum and all related technologies and practices.
Training was fun, thank you a lot.
Bernd Goldschmidt
Jun 28, 2019
Agile Software Development Experience with PSD Course
I really loved the topics of the course. Especially Emergent Architecture and Quality Software. Great content with great trainers makes me understand the essence of the topic.
ilkay Polat
Apr 6, 2019
perfect start
For me - without any scrum experiences - this was a perfect way to start my scrum Business way of life
Patrick Gebhard
Feb 26, 2019
Die Inhouse-Schulung an sich top
Die Inhouse-Schulung an sich top! Konkret im Arbeitsumfeld wäre eine andere Vorgehensweise sinnvoller gewesen. Dies hat aber nichts mit der Schulung an sich zu tun.
Michael Forster
Feb 11, 2019
Very good training
Very good training. Afterwards you definitely know how SCRUM works and you already did the process four times.
David Weisgerber
Jan 21, 2019
I would very much recommend this training with Peter Götz
I would recommend this training with Peter Götz to any friend and colleague. His workshop is very well structured while at the same time he keeps a sense for spontaneity to answer questions and fill explanations with one of his many experiences in this field. I feel that I have learned very much and had a very fun time during that training.
SD
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Thomas Schissler
The terms "iterative" and "incremental" are used so frequently and naturally in the context of agile that their meaning is no longer challenged.
Feb 10, 2020
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Thomas Schissler
A few years ago, I was part of a team that was starting to work together under very difficult circumstances: We had to finish a showcase in the Industry 4.0 area within just six weeks.
Oct 9, 2019
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Thomas Schissler
Vor kurzem haben die beiden Autoren des Artikels sich einmal mehr mit der Frage beschäftigt, wie sich erfolgreiche und weniger erfolgreiche Teams unterscheiden und was die Erfolgsfaktoren für erfolgreiche Teams sind.
May 12, 2018
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Thomas Schissler
Vor kurzem habe ich mit einem Team die interessante Frage aufgeworfen, ob Softwareentwickler Leidenschaft für das Produkt das sie entwickeln benötigen oder ob Leidenschaft für Technologie wichtiger ist.
Apr 23, 2018
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Thomas Schissler
Wenn man Scrum auf einen einzigen Begriff reduzieren müsste, welcher wäre das?
Jan 24, 2018
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