Gerd Wessling

Scagilize Founder & Principal (Agile/Hybrid) Coach, Consultant and Trainer

I very much LOVE facilitating trainings (remote and in person) & events/kick-off/conferences. And I love helping organizations & individuals to find the perfect match between problems and suitable solutions/methods (rather than the opposite, like "forcing" a specific solution on any kind of problem).

Sometimes alone; but very often in fantastic teams of very skilled professionals from my various network partners – and now als my own company Scagilize! And based on the feedback of my many (+3.500 in the last 9 years) training participants – as well as my consulting & coaching clients – I seem to be rather good at that :)

Experience

Agile Coach, SAFe & Profit Streams Expert, Project and Change Manager, Consultant, Trainer and Facilitator
Successful management of SAFe transformations as well as PPT-to-LPM transformations in global companies with value stream product volumes in the billion euro range
More than 185 SAFe courses (remote and onsite, public and internal, German and English) conducted as a trainer since 2020 – with an average rating of 4.85/5
25 years international experience in project, leadership, training and management
23 years experience in Agile & related frameworks, practices and agile (Role) Coaching
650+ trainings, workshops and consulting engagements globally (+17 countries) in the last 10 years alone around "classical", hybrid and agile Project Management and Organizational Transformation
Typical customer size from 10 to 400,000+ employees
Further expertise in: Kanban, Product Development Processes & Techniques (classical and agile), specialist in Remote-Training & collaboration, intercultural work, agile contracting, Communication & Team Building, Leadership, Change Management, Process Management, OKR
"Tool" competence: @Scale, JIRA & Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Mural, Miro, MS Teams and many more

Education & Certificates

Certificates & Trainer Authorisations:

SPC, RTE, LPM, ARCH, HW, APM, SDP, SA, SP, POPM, SSM, SASM, Value Stream and ART Identification, Value Stream Mapping, Applying AI, RAI
Scrum Master PSM1, Certified Less Practitioner, Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner, PMP, OKR Master, Profit Streams Trainer

Diploma in Physics