Oluf Nissen
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About
Oluf Nissen is a former software developer, Certified Scrum Professional, and Certified Agile Enterprise Coach (ICE-EC) working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was introduced to Agile software development in the early days of the Internet via links he found after reading The Cluetrain Manifesto, or so he likes to think. After reading about eXtreme Programming, he was so curious that he actually changed jobs - just so he could experience it in action.
After joining a Fortune 20 company in 2001, and not finding it very Agile, he was given this advice by Kent Beck: "Change your organization or change your organization" (no, Kent does not remember this). So he decided to stay and find like-minded people to change the organization. He was a co-founder of an Agile special interest group and took his Scrum Master class with Ken Schwaber and Jeff McKenna in 2007.
Since then he's been an advocate for Scrum in every software team he's worked with. One thing he is sure of is that Ken Schwaber spoke the truth when he said "Scrum will expose every weakness in your organization ruthlessly. It's up to you what you do with that."
Oluf almost never wears a tie, despite what you see in his profile picture. What he DOES wear (or used to wear when he was active as a developer), he considers the hallmark of a geek: a lanyard with a USB drive at the end of it - all of which he calls his "geek tie". Hence his social media moniker: GeekTieGuy.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2012-07-01 - 2013-04-30 - Hewlett-Packard (Software Design Engineer)
- 2013-04-01 - 2013-07-31 - Hewlett-Packard (Software Design Engineer)
- 2013-07-31 - 2015-07-31 - Hewlett-Packard (Software Design Engineer)
- 2012-03-01 - 2017-07-31 - Hewlett-Packard (Software Design Engineer)
- 2015-07-31 - 2017-10-03 - HP Inc. (Software Design Engineer)