Business Agility · Empowering Leadership · Effective Collaboration · Software Craftsmanship
How do we achieve great successes in complex, dynamic conditions?
More than 20 years of experience in leading development teams, complex IT projects, and innovative software products to success. I have been working in companies ranging in size from start-ups to group corporations, in different industries like information technology, insurance, electrical engineering, and electric mobility.
Key success factors
On my journey, I have learned which factors are critical for business success in this highly dynamic world:
Characteristics
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How others rate my work
“I had the pleasure of working with Martin Burger at an insurance company. He has an extremely quick apprehension and finds ways to pursue his goals even in complex situations. He accompanied the transition of a project- and efficiency-optimized, to a lean and agile company and thereby further improved the responsiveness of this insurance company in the market. In particular, he accompanied the first cross-functional, agile teams as Scrum Master and led them in a scaled environment into self-responsibility and autonomy.”
Kurt Jäger, Senior Management Consultant, Partner & Member of the Board at KEGON AG
“I had the pleasure to work with Martin on a significant proof of concept and implementation project. Martin was the overall project manager from the client side. I am happy to confirm (and still impressed) that the workshops hosted by Martin probably were the best in my career so far. He managed to orchestrate a variety of differently focused stakeholders whilst getting the maximum output of this kind of melting pot workshop. He is very goal focused and stands strong in front of others. I hope to work with Martin in future again. He is my first choice whenever I need external project management.”
Jan Ropers, Director – Head of Technology Consulting Services German and CEE at Willis Towers Watson
“Martin has adopted Scrum in the fastest and most natural way I have ever seen the last ten years being in the business. He asks the right questions, he has the right mindset, and indeed, he lives Scrum. Not only because of his profound knowledge in agile and information technology, it's a pleasure to discuss and practice Scrum with him.”
Jochen Dinter, Agile Coach
Learned and achieved
Certifications and Training
Honors and Awards
Expert knowledge and hands-on experience
since 2015
I help organizations deliver the right business value earlier with less bureaucracy and thereby achieve great results in our increasingly fast-paced and ever-changing world.
since 2016 freelancer
Consulting and training services
You get my passionate support in the areas of business agility, successful collaboration and effective leadership in knowledge work as well as in product and project management.
More at zusammen-grossartig.de (in German).
since 2021 at Deutsche Glasfaser / inexio
Germany‘s leading fiber-to-the-home platform
Overall coordination of software development projects. Facilitation of the transformation process from traditional to agile project management.
2019 – 2020 at Wirelane
Provider for electromobility charging solutions
Director of the company's software development site. Implementation of Scrum to increase collaboration and to improve product-market fit. Teaching software craftsmanship to improve the product's quality and to make software development more effective and efficient. Organizational development to improve cross-team collaboration and vision workshops to align the company's departments.
2019 at CosmosDirekt / Generali Germany
Germany's leading online insurer and the direct insurer of Generali
Management of projects with strategic and cross-company character in the business line Digital / Direct (driving digitalization forward, complex product launches). Development of methodological approaches for (agile) project and project portfolio management.
2015 – 2019 at CosmosDirekt / Generali Germany
Germany's leading online insurer and the direct insurer of Generali
Transition to an agile organization; for instance, agile methods and frameworks like Scrum and Kanban, project portfolio management, transition teams, and agile coaching. Project management in the area of agile software development. Introduction of new custom software and insurance products.
2011 – 2014
I successfully transferred award-winning research results to the market.
2013 – 2014 at Testfabrik
Provides services and products for automated testing of web and mobile apps
Entrepreneurship and strategic company development. Product management and customer acquisition. Lead of software development. Introduction of Kanban and continuous delivery. Implementation of webmate’s Web 2.0 front-end. Capital acquisition (200,000 €).
2011 – 2014 at Saarland University
Software Engineering Chair
R&D: Automated debugging of Web 2.0 applications. Initiator and project manager of the webmate project (cf., Testfabrik AG). Responsibility towards the project sponsors (BMWi / EXIST Transfer of Research). International presentations and acquisition of pilot customers. Implementation of the prototype and the IT infrastructure. Raising of external funding (500,000 €).
2000 – 2013
For more than a decade, I led complex, innovative IT projects to success.
2000 – 2013 at netbeyond
IT service provider
Management, business development and software engineering. Implementation of numerous customer projects in the fields of websites, content management systems, web-based training and custom software. Coordination between different service contractors.
2001 – 2011
I helped eliminate the need for tedious and expensive manual bug fixing. Other researchers referred to my innovative approaches as “the end of manual debugging”.
2006 – 2011 at Saarland University
Software Engineering Chair
Research: software engineering, automated debugging, dynamic program analysis, capture and replay of program runs. Teaching: automated debugging, software programming, and software engineering.
2005 at Web.de / 1&1 Internet
Germany's leading wide-coverage web portal
Design and implementation of DDchange: a framwork that allows to determine failure-inducing program changes fully automatically. Integration in the development process (continuous integration).
2001 – 2004 at Saarland University
Software Engineering Chair
Worked on different projects (primarily automated debugging). Mentoring of exercise groups (courses related to software engineering).
Computer science and software engineering
Doktor-Ingenieur (Dr.-Ing.)
| Saarland University | 2006 – 2011 |
|---|---|
| Dissertation | Replaying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Program Interactions (magna cum laude, Software Engineering Chair, Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller) |
| Fields of study | software engineering, automated debugging, dynamic program analysis, capture and replay of program executions |
| Nominated for Best Paper Award | At the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2011 in Toronto, Canada, my paper “Minimizing Reproduction of Software Failures” was nominated for the Best Paper Award. Other researchers referred to this new approach as “the end of manual debugging”. |
Diplom-Informatiker (Dipl.-Inform.)
| Saarland University | 1999 – 2005 |
|---|---|
| Diploma thesis | Locating Failure-Inducing Code Changes in an Industrial Environment (very good / outstanding performance, Software Engineering Chair, Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller) |
| Fields of study | computer science, software engineering, business informatics, information systems, information science |
| Eclipse Innovation Grant | My diploma thesis was in the context of the “IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant on automated debugging”, which was awarded to Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller. |
| Internship | My diploma project was a close collaboration of the Software Engineering Chair (Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller) with 1&1 Internet AG where I worked as an intern. |
How to get in touch with me
I help organizations achieve great results in our ever faster changing world. A world in which individual knowledge and cross-team collaboration lead to success. To learn more about my consulting and training services, go to Dr. Martin Burger – mit Leidenschaft zusammen großartig (in German).
You can reach me by e-mail at m@rtin-burger.net.