Maximizing Dependencies with Interdependent Teams
Join us at Brainlab for a presentation by the creator of LeSS - Bas Vodde
Bas Vodde, one of the creators of LeSS, will come to Munich and give a talk about how to get Agile to work. We need to reduce dependencies to create independent teams, right? That is common sense – and it is wrong. When multiple teams work on one product, the teams need to work closely together to ensure it truly becomes one product. Teams need to learn from each other, help each other, and together build one product.
However, many people and teams have bad experiences with dependencies. Dependencies seem to block us from making progress. It doesn’t have to be that way! Bas will talk about how teams can work together and what enables this kind of collaboration.
This talk will be held at Brainlab AG, Olof-Palme-Straße 9, 81829 München, Tuesday, April 18th at 7:00 PM CEST, seats are limited. There will be some fingerfood and drinks afterwards and an amazing view over Munich from the Brainlab tower.
We are unfortunately fully booked
About the Presenter
Bas Vodde is a coach, programmer, trainer, and author related to modern agile and lean product development. He is the creator of the LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) framework for scaling agile development. He coaches organizations on three levels: organizational, team, individual/technical practices. He has trained thousands of people in software development, Scrum, and modern agile practices for over a decade.
Bas works for Odd-e, a company that supports organizations in improving their product development, mostly in Asia and Europe
Bas currently lives in Amsterdam again, after living in Singapore, China, and Finland. He worked in start-ups and in very traditional environments. This last uncomfortable experience convinced him that agile and lean development is a more human way of developing software products — no matter how large your development is.
He had the opportunity to introduce Agile Development (particularly Scrum) in Nokia Networks (formally NSN) but had to move to Helsinki. There he watched dozens of product groups adopt scrum and other agile practices. The extreme cold in Finland forced him to migrate south and back to China where he focused on one large product group and its Scrum adoption.
Bas is interested in Scrum with a special focus on large companies and large product development. But he also enjoyed working on technical practices, especially test-driven development (particularly in embedded environments) and continuous integration. He keeps working as a developer because he strongly believes you need a well-factored code base if you want to be fast and flexible. His hobbies are studies in lean production and quality management and, of course, programming.