About the Author

Peter Koning has been responsible for many agile teams for many years. After studying computer science at the University of Leiden, he started as a programmer and team manager. In 2005, he took his first steps in the agile mindset and the Scrum framework, the first years as manager of teams in the Netherlands and Romania. Partly because of this, he learned the importance of a good culture. In the years that followed, he fulfilled various roles, such as Scrum Master, team manager, agile project manager, and department manager. As an agile project manager, he was responsible for a large project that involved a complete rebuild of the flagship of an organization. He has come to understand the importance of quickly learning from real users. As a department manager, he was responsible for various agile teams in both the run and change environments. That taught him the importance of ownership and facilitating the right environment in which the teams can take this ownership.

In recent years, he has worked at Prowareness as a senior leadership consultant and entrepreneur. He has advised, trained, and coached all kinds of managers in agile leadership. In addition, he supervised several agile transformations and gave a lot of training and workshops. Peter is also the entrepreneur of Relead, a company within the Prowareness family that focuses on training, mentoring, and advising leaders and leadership teams.