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Aug 9, 2022
Very educational and interactive…
Very educational and interactive lessons, best when done on-site with a group of around 8 people
Brandon van Ostaden
Jun 3, 2022
Excellent training
Excellent training, good fun and great contents!
luca ippoliti
Jan 3, 2022
Very good class with an 'agile'…
Very good class with an 'agile' approach towards time use.
Filip De Wit
Dec 29, 2021
Professional training
I received lots of new information and good methods.
Markus Masalin
Jun 30, 2021
Keep Calm and Scrum On
We had a nice group of 5 students so there was enough time to get to know and listen to each other. The trainer (Michel) is calm and knows what he is talking about . He has a nice way of explaining himself and extend the knowledge with clear examples or stories about real-life events
Wilfred Waltman
Jun 30, 2021
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Highly interactive training with many practical activities to put the theoretical contents into action. Highly recommended
Serafín Ojeda Muriel
Mar 29, 2021
Good, pleasant and interactive training
The class I attended was a good, pleasant training. The training was a nice interactive session in which the trainer dived into some subjects more than others, to get the mindset needed for making the right choices. I really think that helped during the exam!
Lennart van der Kamp
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Hi, my name is Michel van der Meulen and I am a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Professional Scrum Master and Agile coach. I have a background in software development and requirements analyses and I provide Agile and Scrum trainings and also (Agile) requirements trainings.
For me Agile is a natural way of working, just like I did in the old days when I was a software developer and collaborated with my customers in creating solutions for their needs. Last decades we lost the natural way of working; projects often fail, software developers often have no idea who they are working for, and that disturbs the enjoyment of work. It is my challenge to help others to rediscover this natural way of working, by helping them to look at things different, to think out of the box, to invite them to make small steps out of their comfort zone.. That way they will gain new insights which will stimulate them to inspect and adapt and rediscover the enjoyment of work.
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Aug 9, 2022
Very educational and interactive…
Very educational and interactive lessons, best when done on-site with a group of around 8 people
Brandon van Ostaden
Jun 3, 2022
Excellent training
Excellent training, good fun and great contents!
luca ippoliti
Jan 3, 2022
Very good class with an 'agile'…
Very good class with an 'agile' approach towards time use.
Filip De Wit
Dec 29, 2021
Professional training
I received lots of new information and good methods.
Markus Masalin
Jun 30, 2021
Keep Calm and Scrum On
We had a nice group of 5 students so there was enough time to get to know and listen to each other. The trainer (Michel) is calm and knows what he is talking about . He has a nice way of explaining himself and extend the knowledge with clear examples or stories about real-life events
Wilfred Waltman
Jun 30, 2021
Try this course
Highly interactive training with many practical activities to put the theoretical contents into action. Highly recommended
Serafín Ojeda Muriel
Mar 29, 2021
Good, pleasant and interactive training
The class I attended was a good, pleasant training. The training was a nice interactive session in which the trainer dived into some subjects more than others, to get the mindset needed for making the right choices. I really think that helped during the exam!
Lennart van der Kamp
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Michel van der Meulen
The Project Mindset approach, in which success is defined upfront based on Scope, Time and Budget, will (based on experiences) lead to less business involvement and more task management.
The Product Mindset approach, in which success is continuously driven by business metrics like User adaption/retention, revenue cost saving per feature, will (based on experiences) lead to less waste, more creativity and more releases.
Nov 29, 2021
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The future is unknown and although some people claim to be able to predict the future, most people can't. But to look a little ahead, into the future, to have a sense of when certain items on the Product Backlog are finished, predictability would be very useful. Although we can't be completely predictable, it is helpful if we are a little more predictable than we are now. And therefore we need some measurement results from the near past.
Oct 19, 2021
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The days are getting shorter and colder. Summer is over and winter is coming. Some people are already thinking about the holidays and the preparations for it. Soon children will have their Christmas wish list ready. The wish lists my children created were always a combination of text and pictures; every item on the list contained a name, a picture, information where to buy it and how much it costs. They did everything to increase the chance of getting these presents and especially getting the right presents.
Oct 7, 2020
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The Sprint Review is not just a "Demo" or a presentation, it is a collaboration of the Scrum Team with the stakeholders from the business.
Sep 8, 2020
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Are you a Business Analyst and do you currently fulfill the role of the Product Owner? Or otherwise the Product Owner may have delegated some tasks to you, for lack of time to deal with those themselves.
Feb 19, 2020
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Michel van der Meulen
Recently I ran into a beautiful piece of text, written by Rachel Naomi Remin. In this text I read the following phrase:"Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers, but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company"
Dec 14, 2019
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In organizations in which agile transitions take place, the ancient English proverb Blood is thicker than water is frequently appropriate. It is decided to adopt agile working, there is talk of Scrum, self-organizing teams, Sprints, standing meetings, sticky notes on the wall, etc. etc.
Oct 15, 2019
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