Hans-Bernd Kittlaus
Former ISPMA Chairman

Hans-Bernd Kittlaus is chairman emeritus and Hall of Fame member of ISPMA e.V. He is also the owner and general manager of InnoTivum Consulting (www.innotivum.com) which he founded in 2001. Before, he was Director of SIZ GmbH (Computing Center of the German Savings Banks Organization, Germany) and Head of Software Product Management and Development units of IBM. His main focus area is software product management. Hans-Bernd has been working as a trainer, coach and consultant for both corporate IT organizations and companies in a number of industries, and as a lecturer at academic institutions. He has trained hundreds of product managers in more than 120 SPM trainings including all ISPMA training modules. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and has published numerous books and articles, his latest being “Software Product Management for Startups: The ISPMA-Compliant Study Guide and Handbook” (with Haragopal Mangipudi, guNaka/InnoTivum 2023) and “Software Product Management: The ISPMA-Compliant Study Guide and Handbook, 2nd Edition” (Springer 2022). He is Diplom-Informatiker (corresponds to M.S. in Computer Science).