Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen is a writer, speaker, developer, entrepreneur, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… Dutch guy.
His current occupation is CIO at ISM eCompany. With 200 employees it is one of the leading e-commerce solution providers in The Netherlands. As a manager, Jurgen has experience in leading a horde of 100 software developers, development managers, project managers, quality managers, service managers and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally.
Jurgen is primarily interested in software engineering, quality improvement and complexity theory, from a manager’s perspective. He has published in several magazines, including Dr. Dobb's, Software Quality Professional, and Methods & Tools.
He is also a speaker, regularly invited to talk at conferences, including Agile 2009 (Chicago), Scan-Agile 2009 (Helsinki), Agile Eastern Europe 2009 (Kiev), and Business of Software 2009 (San Francisco).
Jurgen lives in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). He has two kids, and an imaginary hamster called George.
Track abstract - Agile in the organisation
Checklist for the Agile Manager
Surveys and polls have proved that management is the biggest obstacle in transitions to Agile. Every person who aims to be a manager someday needs to learn what the manager’s new role is in software development organizations. This presentation will help them.
