Christoph Steindl worked for IBM as an IT architect and method expert from 1995 to 2005, served as a member of the core team of the community Agile at IBM, was a member of the Technical Experts Council, and led teams to practice Agile techniques. He is educated in Scrum, TOC, and NLP. He has years of practice with Agile, Lean, and TOC. He regularly tries to crystallize the essence of new approaches, applies their relevant parts to the real world, and teaches them in lectures at universities and public seminars. In 2005, he founded Catalysts (www.catalysts.cc), a consulting business for software development companies. He holds master's degrees in mechatronics and computer science as well as a PhD in technical sciences. He is a member of the ACM, the ScrumAlliance, and the Agile Alliance. He can be reached at steindl at catalysts.cc.