Ralph Jocham
Ralph is a German citizen who spent the last 20 years collecting professional software and product development experience in France, the UK, the USA and now Switzerland. He became an agile evangelist in 2000, and perfected his approach at ThoughtWorks.
Ralph also is Europe’s first trainer with Scrum.org as well as a Management 3.0 facilitator and taught thousands of professionals around the globe. When not busy running his company Effective Agile or helping all kinds of enterprises in Europe, he enjoys teaching at universities. He worked or consulted at Oracle, Siemens, Google, Life Technologies, Swisscom, PostFinance and Roche, to name a few.
He co-wrote a book with Don Mc Greal “The Professional Product Owner: Leveraging Scrum as a Competitive Advantage“.
Ralph nevertheless finds time to spend quality time with his family on a regular basis, treating them to home-cooked international fine cuisine, and going on long walks with the family dog.
Upcoming courses
Master Agile leadership and boost your Scrum Team’s and organization’s performance with our PAL-E training.
Amplify your impact and learn how CTOs communicate with less-technical audiences. In one day, you’ll gain practical tools to explain technical ideas clearly, speak the language of business, and influence stakeholders as a trusted engineer or leader.
Lead AI adoption with clarity and confidence. In three days, you’ll gain the strategic insight, governance foundations, and practical tools to guide responsible AI implementation, align leadership, and turn AI ambition into measurable business impact.
Agentic AI introduces a new generation of systems that can plan, reason, and take actions. In this hands-on course, developers will learn how to build AI agents using modern tooling and Google Cloud Platform, exploring concepts like tool use, planning, and multi-step reasoning.
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