Bas Vodde is a coach, consultant, programmer, trainer, and author related to modern agile and lean product development. When he coaches organizations, he works 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. He is the author of the Scaling Agile and Lean Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum and of Practices for Large-Scale Agile and Lean Development, both together with Craig Larman. Bas works for Odd-e, a company which supports organization in improving their product development, mainly in Asia. Bas currently lives in Singapore where he ended up after living in Holland (born), 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 (later 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 (especially 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. Bas is also one of the authors of the CppUTest unit test framework for C/C++ and of Osaka a Mac UI automation framework written in Ruby.

Director @ From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach @ Odd-e provides training and coaching for Agile development. I'm a trainer and coach From 2001 to Present (14 years) Agile Expert @ Helping one large product to move towards Scrum From January 2007 to May 2008 (1 year 5 months) Manager Agile & Iterative Product Development @ Promoting agile and iterative development in Nokia Networks From 2005 to 2007 (2 years) Quality Manager @ Quality manager of the Hangzhou site in China. From 2003 to 2005 (2 years) Chief Engineer @ Large multi-site product From 2002 to 2003 (1 year) Team Lead @ Leading a team creating a new router product consisting of much open source software From 2001 to 2002 (1 year) Senior Software Developer @ From 1998 to 2001 (3 years) Software Engineer @ Worked on a conference information system From 1997 to 1997 (less than a year) Software Engineer @ Worked on a shrinkwrapped printing package From 1997 to 1997 (less than a year)

Bas Vodde is skilled in: Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Test Driven Development, Software Development, Agile Project Management, Unit Testing, Ruby, Continuous Integration, Certified Scrum Master CSM, C++, Software Engineering, Software Project Management, Consulting, Coaching, Quality Management