Peter Schmidt

Peter Schmidt started his career as software developer but soon discovered the — then 'hot' — UNIX operating system and SQL databases, joining Garmhausen and Partner, a mid 1980s startup in Bonn. There he helped to almost double the company for 8 years in a row, finally as product manager for the companies major products.

In the mid 1990s Peter helped to position Assoware's fuzzy matching technology as the core component to one of the most complete consumer databases in Germany. When the company was acquired by the Deutsche Post Group, Peter there became responsible for developing and operating plenty of products and services based on this.  At this time, Peter repeatedly recognized how delivering incremental results gets accepted as soon as the uncertainties of a venture are obvious — even when de-duplicating the customer database of Germany's largest consumer bank.

Since Peter took one of Jeff Sutherland's Certified Scrum Master classes in 2009 he is working as a freelance Professional Scrum Master and agile coach. He supported several teams to successfully implement state of the art software by taking up and using Scrum. Peter enjoys adding new skills to his portfolio, such as systemic coaching, facilitation or Kanban. 

Peter supports the Scrum and Agile community by co-hosting the Bonner Scrumtisch, frequently attending other regional Scrum gatherings and participating in the German speaking chapter of ScrumAlliance.

Peter can be contracted as Scrum Master, Scrum Professional, Kanban Management Professional and agile coach all over Germany.