Josef Scherer
Principal Consultant, Agile Coach, Mindfulness Ambassador at Allianz Technology
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJosef Scherer is a Principal Consultant and Agile Coach based in Munich with nearly two decades of experience bridging hands-on software engineering and large-scale agile transformations. He has led enterprise adoptions of LeSS and SAFe across major organizations like Allianz, Daimler and Deutsche Telekom, and founded his own agile consultancy in 2007. A former Java developer turned coach, Josef combines Solution-Focused Coaching and MBSR mindfulness training to improve team resilience and delivery cadence. He’s known for pragmatic facilitation—retrospectives, Open Space and Innovation Games—that surfaces organisational change opportunities others overlook. His background in linguistics and philosophy informs a rare focus on communication patterns and culture when scaling agile practices.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Linguistics, Philosophy, German Language and Literature, M.A., Linguistics, Philosophy, German Language and Literature at Universität Bielefeld
English
Github Skills (11)
design-principles5
junit4
java4
testng4
javascript3
python3
vscode3
testcase3
ruby2
tdd2
visual-studio-code1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jscherer/TDDwithMockObjectsAndDesignPrinciples
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:51 commits, 46 pushes in 6 days
emergentdesign-principlesprinciplespythonjavascript
jscherer/java-fizzbuzz-TDD-kata
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 4 branches in 13 days
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