Jutta Eckstein

Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, trainer, author and speaker. She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make agile transitions. She is experienced in applying agile processes within medium-sized to large, distributed mission-critical projects and has written about her experiences. She holds a M.A. Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. Product-Engineering, and a B.A. in Education.

Jutta is the co-author of Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting,Open Space & Sociocracy; and Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio. She is the author of Agile Software Development in the Large; Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams; and Retrospectives for Organisational Change.

She is a member of the Agile Alliance (having served on the board of directors from 2003-2007) and a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian and European conferences, where she has also presented her work.