Peter Geiser
About
Peter Geiser was introduced to Scrum by attending Jeff Sutherland’s Certified Scrum Master course in 2011 while he was at Legando, a small company producing core banking software. At first, he held co-responsibility to implement Scrum. As Head Business Engineering, he was responsible for the contracts (mostly fixed-price), ensuring that the Scrum values and way of working was not compromised.
In Mai 2012, Peter reorganized Business Engineering and Development teams into cross-functional Product Teams, reflecting the way the Scrum teams were working. This formal step was a natural step to improve team efficiency as well as team and customer happiness. In 2013, Peter completed his Scrum Product Owner certification, as well as other courses on Agile, such as ETH-Professor Bertrand Mayer’s course Agile: the Good, the Hype and the Ugly.
In 2014, Peter joined AXA as Head Competence Center Business Engineering. His previous experience in Scrum allowed Peter to support AXA in its transformation towards Agile by sharing his experiences, holding Scrum introductions, and coaching teams. Learning about SAFe and LeSS enabled Peter to focus on scaling Scrum to a large organization. In 2016, Peter continued his development in Scrum by becoming Certified Scrum Professional.
In April 2017, Peter transitioned into full time Agile Coach, supporting teams in their Scrum, Kanban and SAFe practices, as well as coaching Product Owners and Scrum Masters. In 2020, Peter took over the lead of the AXA Switzerland Product Owner chapter.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2017-04-01 - present - AXA (Agile Coach)
- 1998-02-01 - 1999-12-31 - Zurich Financial Services (Team Lead)
- 2000-02-01 - 2001-12-31 - KPMG (Manager in Financial Services eBusiness-Consulting)
- 2002-01-01 - 2008-06-30 - UBS (Director)
- 2008-07-01 - 2013-12-31 - Legando (Head Product Engineering)
- 2014-01-01 - 2017-03-31 - AXA (Head Competence Center Business Engineering)