Scrum Master

Kai Rödiger holds a degree in industrial engineering and has been with //SEIBERT/MEDIA since March 2016, first as a Scrum Master and currently as an Agile Coach. He focuses on strategy as well as team and organizational development. He guides employees and teams as they make important changes to their work processes, works with teams to identify the information needed to make better decisions, and supports the teams as they collect, analyze, and visualize this information. He is currently occupied with the challenges of scaling agile at a team and a company level and is driving the issue of business intelligence & financial controlling within the company. Besides his activity as an Agile Coach at //SEIBERT/MEDIA, Kai Rödiger is active in the agile community and participates in and speaks at conferences about New Work.

Kai Rödiger has a wealth of knowledge from his three years as a research assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In this context, he was intensively concerned with measuring the future viability of companies and how companies can successfully meet the constantly changing demands of the working world. Kai Rödiger has also written a number of articles in trade journals and publications on agility in companies.

Experience

since 2016: Agile coach and Scrum Master at //SEIBERT/MEDIA
2012 - 2015: Research assistant, Department of Marketing and Human Resource Management at the Technical University of Darmstadt
2010 - 2012: Research assistant, Department of Marketing and Human Resource Management at the Technical University of Darmstadt
2009: Member of the credit department for aircraft financing and risk analysis, Helaba Dublin
2008: Member of the credit department for Structured Trade & Commodity Finance, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale
2006 - 2007: Member of the new sales channels department in data analysis, Ferrero Deutschland GmbH

Education

2012 - 2015: Promotion, Department of Marketing and Human Resource Management at the Technical University of Darmstadt
2005 - 2012: Postgraduate Diploma, Industrial Engineer at the Technical University of Darmstadt

Publications and interviews

Books & articles in publications

Paul Herwarth von Bittenfeld and Kai Rödiger. "Digitale Werkzeuge für agile Führung und Zusammenarbeit ‒ Darstellung am Beispiel //SEIBERT/MEDIA." Edited by Thorsten Petry, Haufe Verlag (2019).

Sarah Boost, Paul Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Kai Rödiger and Joachim Seibert. "//SEIBERT/MEDIA - Kickass Software, Rock’n’Roll Teams in Agile Organisationen." Edited by André Häusling, Haufe Verlag (2017).

Kai Rödiger. "Empathie im Kundenkontakt: Einflussfaktoren, Erfolgsauswirkungen und Altersunterschiede als Kontextfaktor - Eine Mehrebenenuntersuchung." Springer Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden (2017).

Gisela Gerlach, Kai Rödiger, Ruth Stock, Nicolas Zacharias. "Salespersons’ Empathy as a Missing Link in the Customer Orientation–Loyalty Chain: An Investigation of Drivers and Age Differences as a Contingency." Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management 36, no 3, 221-239. (2016).

Blog & magazine articles

Matthias Groß, Florian Dorozalla, Kai Rödiger. "Agile Mitarbeiter gewinnen." Personalführung, June 2019

Kai Rödiger. "The Decision Tree model: Making decisions with a current development project as an example." //SEIBERT/MEDIA, 2018.

Kai Rödiger. "The Decision Tree model: Clear responsibilities and guidelines on various levels of decision-making." //SEIBERT/MEDIA, 2017.

Paul Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Kai Rödiger. "Sieben Jahre Erfahrungen zur Entscheidungsfindung in agilen Organisationen - Da muss doch mal einer die Entscheidung treffen." OBJEKTspektrum, June 2017.

Kai Rödiger. "Agile Coaches at //SEIBERT/MEDIA – Working with teams and individuals." //SEIBERT/MEDIA, 2017.

Kai Rödiger. "Agile Coaches at //SEIBERT/MEDIA – Company level tasks part III: Corporate development." //SEIBERT/MEDIA, 2017.

Kai Rödiger. "Agile Coaches at //SEIBERT/MEDIA – Company level tasks part II: Recruiting und employer branding." //SEIBERT/MEDIA, 2017.

Kai Rödiger. "Agile Coaches at //SEIBERT/MEDIA – Company level tasks part I: Education & training." //SEIBERT/MEDIA, 2017.

Kai Rödiger. "How our scrum masters work as agile coaches within the company." //SEIBERT/MEDIA, 2017.

Kai Rödiger, Sarah Boost. "So tickt die neue Arbeitswelt bei //SEIBERT/MEDIA." Xing fragt nach, 2016.