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Christian Lenz

Christian Lenz

Development Facilitator | Project Manager | Developer | Organizational Designer working from CTM Computer Technik Marketing GmbH in Germany

Bremen, Germany

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With over 25 years of expertise in the Business Central domain, Christian has led transformative projects, optimizing processes and driving growth. His mission is to create value-driven work environments that empower teams. He has also created and hosted numerous events and learning environments for internal and external developers, helping them update and expand their skills.

As an accomplished speaker, Christian has shared insights at international conferences, including Directions EMEA and BCTechDays. His sessions or workshops provoke viewpoint shifts, offering strategic frameworks to keep organizations competitive in a dynamic landscape.

Beyond technical skills, Christian’s education in Design Thinking, Theory U, and Future Leadership equips him as a certified Organizational Designer. His holistic approach blends creativity, empathy, and strategic thinking to drive impactful change, even in complex situations where no prior knowledge exists.

Connect with Christian to explore innovative solutions and elevate your organization’s potential. 🎙️🚀

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Software Development
  • Leadership development

Elastic leadership applied for development teams (Workshop)

In today's dynamic and rapidly evolving technological landscape, leading technical teams requires a unique set of skills and approaches. The "Elastic Leadership applied for development teams" workshop is designed to equip leaders and managers with the tools needed to navigate the complexities of the tech industry and guide their teams towards successful projects.

Workshop Highlights:

1. Understanding Elastic Leadership:

Explore the concept of elastic leadership and its application in the context of technical teams.
Learn how to alter leadership styles to different phases and team dynamics.

2. Adapting to Change and Uncertainty:

Understand the importance of flexibility and adaptability in leadership.
Explore methods for leading teams through periods of change and uncertainty in the tech industry. Learn to separate technical from organizational problems to adress them appropriately and avoid wasting time and energy.

3. Sharing insights:

Share and discuss best practices for addressing common challenges faced by technical leaders.

Who Should Attend:

Development team leaders
Engineering managers
Project managers
Anyone aspiring to lead development teams effectively (in any role)

Benefits:

Gain insights into leadership approaches tailored to the unique challenges of development teams.
Avoid team demotivation by leading with the wrong approach for the current phase the team is in.
Enhance your ability to lead teams through technological transformations.
Acquire practical tools and strategies for fostering innovation and collaboration.

The workshop lives from your participation. Bring your own cases where you need the intelligence of the group.

Join us for an engaging and interactive workshop that combines theory with hands-on activities, ensuring you leave with actionable insights to elevate your leadership skills in the ever-evolving world of technology.

Discover the tools you already have to make Agile development work for you (Session)

Are you interested in Agile development? Have you tried to use Scrum or Kanban in your organization or in your Business Central projects? Has it been difficult to use Agile practices for proposals, estimates and smaller projects? In this session, Christian and Steve discuss their journey learning about Agile development, some of the challenges they've encountered, and offer some ideas for how you can selectively adopt some Agile practices that will work for your business and projects.

This session will help attendees better evaluate concepts such as:

· Agile development methodology vs Waterfall

· Scrum, Kanban, and Backlog

· Iterative or Incremental development and Sprints

· Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD)

BC TechDays 2024 Sessionize Event

June 2024 Antwerpen, Belgium

Christian Lenz

Development Facilitator | Project Manager | Developer | Organizational Designer working from CTM Computer Technik Marketing GmbH in Germany

Bremen, Germany

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