Martin Burger Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Business Agility · Empowering Leadership · Effective Collaboration · Technical Excellence
Experience
Expert knowledge and hands-on experience
Agility and Leadership
since 2015
I enable people and organizations to learn how to deliver the right business value earlier with less bureaucracy and thereby achieve great results in a world that is constantly changing and becoming more unpredictable day by day.
Professor for Software Engineering and Software Quality Assurance
since 2023 at htw saar
University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken, Germany
Business agility and technical excellence are essential preconditions for creating successful software products. Therefore, I focus on agile software engineering and automated software quality assurance in both research and teaching. More at htw saar (in German).
Zusammen Großartig
since 2016 with passion
freelance 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 (in German).
Senior Expert Transformation & Change IT
2022 at Deutsche Glasfaser
Germany‘s leading fiber-to-the-home platform
Establishing and continuously improving sustainable IT processes that optimally support customer processes. Designing and implementing lean development processes to achieve faster cycle times. Supporting teams on their journey to more self-organization. Improving cross-functional collaboration to efficiently achieve joint, effective solutions. Knowledge transfer of agile collaboration practices throughout the organization, e.g., by training courses and workshops. Facilitating the agile mindset. Lateral leadership of Scrum Masters.
Senior IT Project Manager and Agile Coach
2021 – 2022 at Deutsche Glasfaser
Germany‘s leading fiber-to-the-home platform
Coordination of IT projects with responsibility for requirements analysis, design, implementation, and rollout. Facilitation of collaboration between development teams, business departments and external partners. Coaching of the transformation of IT project management from the waterfall model to agile project management. Concept and conduction of workshops and trainings to strengthen the agile mindset and collaboration. Design and implementation of agile software development processes. Lateral leadership of Scrum Masters.
Vice President of Software Products
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. Coaching technical excellence 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.
Senior Project Manager and Agile Coach in Strategic Projects
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.
Senior Project Manager and Agile Coach in the IT department
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.
Research Transfer
2011 – 2014
I successfully transferred award-winning research results to the market.
Founder and member of the management board (Vorstand)
2013 – 2014 at Testfabrik AG
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 €).
Project head and post-doctoral researcher
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 €).
Information Technology
2000 – 2013
For more than a decade, I led complex, innovative IT projects to success.
Founder of and partner in a civil-law company
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.
Automated Debugging
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”.
Scientific assistant and PhD student
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.
Intern / graduand (Diplomand)
2005 at Web.de / 1&1 Internet
Germany's leading wide-coverage web portal
Design and implementation of DDchange: a framework that allows to determine failure-inducing program changes fully automatically. Integration in the development process (continuous integration).
Student assistant
2001 – 2004 at Saarland University
Software Engineering Chair
Worked on different projects (primarily automated debugging). Mentoring of exercise groups (courses related to software engineering).