Bas is originally from Holland, however has lived in China, Finland, China again and is currently living in Singapore. He worked as a developer in Holland and always felt a mismatch between what he experienced as working and between "what the official literature said you should do". That was solved with the introduction of Extreme Programming and evenmore so, with Agile Development in general.

In the beginning of 2001, he had enough of the "normal life" and moved to China where he started working for Nokia. Here, he gained experience on very large projects and the traditional ways they are run. After this he became even more convinced that Agile Development is the way forward, for all size projects.

In 2005 he moved to Helsinki, Finland to introduce Agile Development and in particular Scrum, in Nokia Networks. For two years he watched dozens of teams adopt scrum and other agile practices. He moved back to China to one larger project to focus on a smaller scope.

He is the owner of a small consulting company based in Singapore called Odd-e. This company is specialized in training and coaching related to agile and lean development.

His main interests are in Scrum and especially how to use it within large companies and large projects. He  also focuses much on the technical practices, especially test-driven development (including refactoring) and continuous integration because he strongly believes you need a well-factored code base if you want to be fast and flexible. His hobby interests have been lean production and quality management and, of course, programming. 

He is the author of an upcoming book called "Large Agile and Lean Product Development", written together with Craig Larman. 

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Upcoming Courses by Bas

Course Title Date Range City
Certified ScrumMaster 15-16 Jan 2009 San Francisco
Certified ScrumMaster 20-21 Jan 2009 Cambridge
Certified ScrumMaster 2-3 Feb 2009 Helsinki
Certified ScrumMaster 5-6 Feb 2009 Amsterdam
Certified ScrumMaster 19-20 Feb 2009 Singapore
Certified ScrumMaster 23-24 Feb 2009 Shanghai

Recent Articles by Bas

Plan of Action: A Retrospective Technique for Creating Actions Tied to Long-Term Goals 06 Aug 07
Retrospectives are a time to reflect on what has happened, what your team wants to happen in the future, and what steps you can take to correct course accordingly. Unfortunately, the actions that come out of retrospectives often are either too focused on the present or are so abstract as to be unattainable. Discover one technique for linking actions to goals.

Resources by Bas

The Trouble with Component Teams
Presented at the Fall 2008 Scrum Gathering in Stockholm.

Recent Comments by Bas

On Plan of Action
Arvind Patil: Yes, Open Space is a good idea. You might want to try this planning method after the Open Space. You just gather all the results together and put them in front of the team and then ask them to use the results as input and generate ac...
On Plan of Action
Alexey: Yes, I would let the team make actions to whatever they find important since they are the one in control of their work. Though project scope is a little weird since that's normally in the hands of the product owner. I never seen any action...
On Plan of Action
Hi Aniket, It depends a lot on the setup. If the group is balanced equally then you could only do the last step in a large group (over speaker phone or webcam). Otherwise you'll need more phone or skype connections. Most techniques are possible...
On Agile and CMMI: Better Together
http://www.softpanorama.org/SE/CMM/index.shtml