Hendrik Esser
Growing up in the 1980s, Hendrik was passionate computer game developer and active in a computer club giving programming lessons. After getting his diploma in Electrical engineering he started at Ericsson as a SW developer and grew into technical coordination and System Development roles. A broad interest in people and management of large organizations brought him into management roles,heading Systems- and Technology Management, Testing and Project Office organizations. Today, he heads the Operations staff unit for a very large,internationally distributed SW development organization.
In 2008 he was a key contributor to the agile transition of the 2000 people organization he worked in. He supports the Ericsson enterprise transition to lean and agile by consulting and teaming up with other parts of Ericsson. He also is active as a speaker at agile conferences and as the director of the Agile Alliance’s Supporting Agile Adoption initiative.
