Scrum Alliance -Profile: Tobias Mayer

Tobias Mayer

I became a Certified Scrum Trainer in May 2005 —one of the first 20 CSTs— and have been a facilitator/coach of teams and individuals since 1990. My style of training is highly interactive and immersive, it is done without powerpoint slides and with very little lecture. The CSM course I run is not prescriptive, rather it is facilitated in a way that allows the necessary learning to emerge out of the participants' collective experiences of life and work, and strives to align each person's innate value system with their behavior.

I run the consultancy Agile Thinking, which is essentially just me, providing coaching and consulting services to organizations making the transition to more agile, trustful and team-centered ways of working. This is my mission statement:

Agile Thinking is dedicated to personal and organizational transformation through human interaction and passionate engagement. Using techniques and ideas drawn from theatre, groupwork, psychotherapy and agile software development, we strive to create space for emotional exploration and courageous conversation: for change.

Talk to me — cell: 650-796-0325, Skype|AIM: tobyanon

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Upcoming Courses by Tobias

Course Title	Date Range	City
WelfareCSM	6-7 Jul 2009	Brighton
WelfareCSM	11-12 Aug 2009	Palo Alto
WelfareCSM	20-21 Aug 2009	Seattle
WelfareCSM	3-4 Sep 2009	London
WelfareCSM	10-11 Sep 2009	Denver
Certified ScrumMaster	24-25 Sep 2009	MV Eemnes

Recent Comments by Tobias

On Am I, or Am I Not, Using Scrum? That is the Question.: I'm not sure we should get hung up on whether a team is doing "pure Scrum". Scrum, as with any Agile methodology needs to be context-sensitive. Personally, I am opposed to thirty-day iterations in almost any context, preferring one-week or two-w...
On Keep Your Team Seeing RED: Nice article; very clear. I don't agree with this statement though: > These points are an indication of how long each story will take. One story point might be eight developer hours or two developer hours... I do not believe a story point repre...
On Daily Standup Withdrawal in Scrum Teams: Good article, Stacia. I especially liked your very concrete examples of how team members can offer useful updates at the meeting. Nicely done. I disagree with you on the stand-up/sit-down issue though. I have never been able to run a success...
On "Four"warned Is Forearmed: Hi Mitch. Good stuff. I have long used a variant of your fourth question, but it is asked at the end of the standup to the whole team and everyone answers it at the same time by using a thumb vote -- thumb up means absolute confidence, thumb down...
On Unlearn What You Have Learned: Very good list. I appreciate your ability to present these ideas in simple and clear terms. Yes getting into the Scrum mindset is absolutely about unlearning. Like Lao Tzu said, oh-so-many years ago... "To gain knowledge add something every day...
On Scrum and the Recession: Good article, but you are rather preaching to the converted. Consider other places to publish this where you might reach new ears. Good luck with the message!

At a Glance

Tobias Mayer

Agile Coach/Facilitator Agile Thinking

Certified:	CSM, CSP, CST
Location:	San Francisco, CA & Antwerp, Belgium

6 courses scheduled

Profile: Tobias Mayer