MICHAEL CRAMER

Hello, I am Michael

Ich bin unab­hängiger Agile Facil­i­ta­tor, Train­er und Coach aus München. Und ich liebe meinen Job. Ich arbeite mit Lei­den­schaft daran, Teams und Organ­i­sa­tio­nen erfol­gre­ich zu machen und wertvolle Ergeb­nisse auszuliefern. Ich begeis­tere mich für Exper­i­mente, Spaß and der Arbeit und Musik.

I am an inde­pen­dent Agile Facil­i­ta­tor, Train­er and Coach. And I love my job. My home­base is Munich, Ger­many. I am pas­sion­ate about mak­ing teams and orga­ni­za­tions awe­some, deliv­er­ing great prod­ucts, exper­i­ments, fun at work and music.

VITA

born 1972 | gen X
university degree media informatics
studies in Furtwangen and Tel Aviv

doing project management since 1998
independent since 2004

co-founder of the PM-Camp Munich

BUSINESS AREAS

facilitation | coaching | training

scrum | kanban | lean | xp
hybrid project management

business agility

intercultural aspects

serious games

making teams awesome

MICHAEL CRAMER

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

USA | UK | Israel | Austria | Sweden | Finland | Nepal | Mozambique | Argentina

business fluent in german and english

ATTRIBUTES

passionate
enthusiastic
purposeful
creative
result oriented
diligent

CREATIONS

Escape the BOOM!
The X-Flow Game
Beatles Lyrics Game
Scaled Agile Flume exercise (SAFe)

Recent Publications by Michael

Team building and remote collaboration with “Escape the BOOM” 

How to grow as a team and have fun while defus­ing bombs togeth­er.
A field report by Mar­joke Franken, María Berenguer and me. Pub­lished in Pro­jek­t­magazin (Eng­lish)

“Neue Wirtschaft” Podcast

The “Neue Wirtschaft” Pod­cast invit­ed me to talk about gam­i­fi­ca­tion and Escape the BOOM. You can lis­ten to it here. (Ger­man)

“Serious Games” Podcast

Julian Kea invit­ed me to his “Seri­ous Games” Pod­cast to chat about Escape the BOOM and Seri­ous Gam­ing. Lis­ten to it here. (Ger­man)

LIBERATING STRUCTURES FÜR MEHR IDEENREICHTUM

My edi­to­r­i­al on Lib­er­at­ing Struc­tures, pub­lished in Pro­jek­t­magazin (Ger­man)

“Ecocycle Planning /​ What I Need From You

Going into detail on Lib­er­at­ing Struc­tures with two arti­cles on What I Need From You and Eco­cy­cle Plan­ning in Projektmagazin’s method library (Ger­man)

Das Pendel meines Vaters

An essay on com­plex­i­ty. My Con­tri­bu­tion to the “Blog Parade” of the PM-Camp Berlin (Ger­man)

Hobby Horses

Loopin’Lab

My music and mak­er project, togeth­er with Mr. Saschmo Bibergeil. Check it out at www.LoopinLab.com

You can also watch our recent videos Hap­py on the Wire and Shave on YouTube.

Escape the BOOM!

The col­lab­o­ra­tive mobile game I cre­at­ed togeth­er with Achim Strem­plat. I use it main­ly for team build­ing and ret­ro­spec­tives. And for fun.

Check it out at www.Escape-the-BOOM.com
You can also book a facil­i­tat­ed ses­sion of Escape the BOOM! here.