Our Trainers
Jochen (Joe) Krebs
INCREMENTOR
Jochen (Joe) Krebs is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and an Agile Transformation Coach with Incrementor.
Joe has delivered Scrum courses and workshops for over 10 years to thousands of participants worldwide. He is the author of the book Agile Portfolio Management and produced the Agile Transformation Kata. He had hundreds of guests on his podcast Agile.FM over the past years.
As a coach, Joe has led several large organizations and start-up’s alike through a successful agile transformation using Scrum. Incrementor has offices in New York City and Amsterdam.
Nils Oud
INCREMENTOR
Nils Oud is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Professional SAFe Trainer, and Agile Transformation Coach within Incrementor.
Prior to Incrementor, in his positions as Agile Delivery Manager and Tribe Lead, Nils founded and managed dozens of Scrum teams, which allows Nils to bring that unique on-the-job experience into his trainings and consulting services.
Within Incrementor, Nils has delivered many trainings and Agile Transformation Services to participants worldwide. He recently co-authored with Joe Krebs incrementor's Agile Transformation KATA. Being a professional SAFe trainer and Liberating Structures trainer as well, Nils always brings something additional to his class.
Nils is truly passionate about Agile and Scrum. He manages large agile communities and agile conferences, such as Agile Amsterdam and Agile Munich. In 2018, Nils achieved his MBA with his thesis ‘Scrum in the classroom’.
Magdalena Firlit
Professional Scrum Trainer, Agile Transformation Consultant
Magdalena Firlit is a Professional Scrum Trainer and an experienced Agile transformation consultant, mentor, university lecturer, and graduated trainer.
In 2008, during her postgraduate university course, she discovered Scrum as an effective framework, and from that time she has been successively learning how to apply Scrum, spread it, and improve software development.
She works worldwide with big companies (+10 000) as well as with medium and small size ones, helping them improve their empirical approach, value delivery, and business agility.
She also shares her experience widely as an international speaker at conferences and business events. As a creator of the Agile Series at Women in Technology, she provides workshops and teaches all people interested in Scrum and Agility. Magdalena helps also organize Agile conferences, She is a co-organizer the first Liberating Structures meetup in Poland.
Karel Smutny
Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Consultant
Karel is a consultant in agile transformations and organization design, Professional Scrum Trainer, candidate LeSS Trainer and software developer.
Karel has helped companies on their journeys adopting agile and Scrum with a focus on adaptiveness, simple organization design with minimum roles, and strong team collaboration and responsibility. He has worked with dozens of companies of various sizes and industries: with turbulent environments of start-ups, with deep self-management, with large scale product development, with near-shore, off-shore, and distributed teams.
I am an experienced and passionate software developer, polyglot, proponent of Extreme Programming and Clean Code, and long-time practitioner of Test-Driven Development.
