Roman Pichler is a leading Scrum and agile product management consultant and a Certified Scrum Trainer. Through his company Pichler Consulting, he provides consulting, coaching and training in agile product management and Scrum. Roman is the author of two influential books: Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love, the product owner's guide to developing successful products with Scrum, and Scrum—Agiles Projektmanagement erfolgreich einsetzen ("Scrum—Applying Agile Project Management Successfully"), the bestselling Scrum book in Germany. Product ownership and agile product management form a focal point of his work.
Roman has nearly ten years experience in helping companies transition to agile, and he has guided Scrum roll-outs in several companies. Roman has worked with product owners and agile product managers for a decade, and he has more than six years experience in teaching and coaching Scrum product owners and ScrumMasters. Roman is the founder of the London Scrum User Group, an active contributor to the Scrum Alliance, and a regular speaker at international conferences. He is based near London in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. Roman speaks English and German.
When Roman is not busy working, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, or he rides his bikes in the local hills. Roman is a keen mountain biker and road cyclist.
Contact Roman via email: roman.pichler@romanpichler.com, by telephone: +44 (0) 7949 203772, or on Twitter: @romanpichler.
Roman's clients include: Accenture, Allianz, Bank of England, Borland, Cancer Research UK, Capital One, Easy Jet, eBay, Ericsson, JobScout24, LANDesk, mobile.de, Nokia, Salesforce.com, and Siemens.
Roman is a great Agile practitioner. He has a wealth of theory and experience in Agile and Lean and has the ability to apply this with great results. Roman also has strong integrity which is demonstrated in his method of working. I found him to always give good consistent advice. On a personal level he's a great guy to work with.
Roman is a great Scrum expert and trainer - I noted this when I had my own Scrum training with him, as well from the reactions I got after the training for my colleagues and managers I organized with him. What I really love is his book on Scrum - in German - you can give it to anybody and he will understand the basic principles and can start to apply it.
Roman is one of the thought leaders in Product Ownership in Scrum and runs an excellent, interactive class that is a great way to get a grasp of how to start becoming an effective Product Owner. I work with him whenever I can and am always impressed.
I hired Roman to help implement Agile into our Organisation having previously worked with him at Capital One. Roman provided a full range of training and consultation from Executive level through to technical performers and helped illustrate how Agile can really benefit companies such as TDX where flexibility and TTM are paramount. Would highly recommend him to any organisation large or small that is struggling with their delivery.
Roman is an expert on lean and agile methods. Romans teaching skills are great, his knowledge is deep and his dedication towards Product Owner makes him a perfect trainer who understands how to get the message to the students. I highly recommend Roman both as a Scrum trainer and as a Scrum/Lean consultant.
We (eBay Classified Scandinavian – dba.dk) hired Roman for a two day session about improving our work with Scrum and Product Ownership. Roman handle this coach session very professionally and he could easily see the challenges we had to increase the efficiency in our teams. After a two-day session the theory was refreshed and we learned some tools and tips to become an even better Product Owner, ScrumMaster and team member. We had two great days with a lot of inspiration, team building and great coaching. I would definitely recommend all who work with Scrum to hire Roman for a session like this.
I found the contents of the product owner course just right. I am pleased that I have already worked as a Scrum Product Owner at my company as this course has answered many questions for me. Roman is a good teacher. He’s very approachable and has a good sense of humour.
Thanks a lot for a fascinating course. I've taken away many new ideas. Seeing you use flipcharts instead of slides was very refreshing.
I had the pleasure of being on one of Roman's courses and found it to be very insightful. Roman has a a deep understanding of his subject matter and one of the few people I've come across who understands the importance of some of the wider issues, for example, architecture in the overall process. The fact that Roman has several 'real' years experience was certainly evident.
I really enjoyed the training. It was really inspiring and a great eye-opener.
Thanks a lot for the great and very valuable tutorial!
We completed a 12 month roadmap of work using Scrum/XP last year – big success, and I managed to apply a lot of the things learnt on Roman's course directly.
Excellent course – great content and delivery, very beneficial!