Markus Gaertner
Organizational Design Consultant
Lage, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Gaertner is an Organizational Design Consultant, Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach with 17 years of experience helping teams improve software delivery, quality and organizational structure from his base in Lage, Germany. As author of ATDD by Example and recipient of the 2013 Most Influential Agile Testing Professional award, he blends deep hands-on testing expertise with systems thinking informed by his study of Jerry Weinberg. At it-agile GmbH he advises organizations on agile adoption and software craftsmanship while regularly presenting at international conferences and contributing to the German Softwerkskammer movement. His open-source work includes substantive backend improvements to the well-known FitNesse acceptance-test wiki, demonstrating a practical focus on making testing infrastructure more robust. Trained in robotics and informatics at Bielefeld University, he combines technical rigor with a pragmatic, human-centered approach to organizational change.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inform., Natural Scientific Informatics - Robotics, Dipl.-Inform., Natural Scientific Informatics - Robotics at Bielefeld University
English, German
Github Skills (5)
javas10
fitnesse10
junit10
java10
jtest10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
unclebob/fitnesse
Feb 2009 - Apr 2014
FitNesse -- The Acceptance Test Wiki
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 commits, 22 comments, 5 issues in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Markus contributed significantly to the `fitnesse` repository, specifically focusing on the `PropertiesResponder`, `SavePropertiesResponder`, and associated testing classes. Their work involved implementing radio buttons for page types, updating code to reflect these changes, and ensuring the correct handling of page properties. They also modified several core classes such as `PageData`, and `PageHistory` to support new functionality and bug fixes.
wikiacceptancefitnesse
mgaertne/minqlx-plugin-tests
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:641 commits, 668 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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