Andreas Wintersteiger
MPIRICS
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Andreas is an agile coach (CEC), professional certiifed coach (ICF PCC) and trainer (CST) with more than 30 years of experience in professional software development in big International corporations and small startups. He has worked as a project manager or project lead since 1995 and still keeps developing on his own. He has received a master degree in computer science in 1995 and a PhD from JKU Linz, Austria.
Andreas started working with agile in the late 90s, focussed on (then called) lightweight methods, especially XP and related practices. He is concerned about the development process in general and since then he became an evangelist for iterative and incremental software development. He practiced test driven development and continuous deployment in the early 2000's. Since his first infection with Scrum he is working consequently with Scrum in every project with a fit. He is working with his company MPIRICS in agile coaching and training in the german speaking area, he helps software development teams and organizations in transitioning to agile, establishing processes and tools, such as build and test automation, DevOps etc. He has been involved in many large Scrum and agile change projects since 2006.
Andreas has held various management positions since 1999 and also as board member (director). He has worked as an agile leader since 2006 with a mission to develop a truly agile organization, learning and developing agile leadership skills the hard way. Feeling the tensions on his own, he has gained a lot of insights on leading teams and organizations, but foremost he had a long journey learning to lead himself. Since 2017 he has developed his own leadership development Curriculum based on many of the learnings. He is a CAL Educator, Certified Leadership Agility coach and certified as a Leadership Gift Trainer (The Responsibility Process).
Andreas is a professional coach (ICF PCC) with his first coaching education dating back to 2002. His work in the last years is mainly in training and coaching with leaders. As an executive coach he works with managers and directors to catalyze growth and organizational change with the goal of creating better workspaces for humans, where people can be filled with joy at work and be at their best.
Andreas has a PhD from Johannes Kepler University and is Alumnus of Havard Business School Executive Education. He has published three books on Scrum and another book about agile Leadership is forthcoming.
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Experience and services
- Courses taught: 445
- Trainer since: 2010
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Career history
- 2018-10-01 - present - MPIRICS Consulting GmbH (Partner, Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified Enterprise Coach)
- 1989-03-01 - 1998-12-31 - Informatik Projektbüro Andreas Wintersteiger (Founder, Developer, Manager)
- 1999-01-01 - 2002-10-30 - SAP (PM)
- 2002-11-01 - 2005-06-30 - Mindbreeze Software (Founder & CEO)
- 2006-09-01 - 2018-09-30 - Objectbay Software & Consulting GmbH (Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified Scrum Coach)
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- Advertising & Marketing
- Construction
- Finance & Insurance
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Area of expertise
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Transformation
- Customer Experience
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