Jürgen De Smet

Current

• Independent Lean & Agile trainer, coach, facilitator at AgileFun
• R&D Production Manager at Agfa Healthcare

Education

• Cevora
• Cevora
• Innovel

• Sprint-IT
• Cevora
• Cevora
• SUN
• IBM
• Cevora
• Cevora
• Hogeschool Gent
• Hogeschool Gent
• Atheneum Kortrijk

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Industry

Computer Software

Jürgen De Smet’s Summary

Since 1996 professionally active, having different roles all bringing a fascinating insight within software development, which are helping to understand its changing environment.

Being a passionate Coach for Lean, Agile and Scrum transformations within a large enterprise organization, including distributed and offshore teams.

Helping out software engineers with TDD, project managers with trend watching, senior management with its investments, process engineers with Lean value stream mapping, middle management with self-organizing teams and much more. This in order to be more productive, provide better quality, increase work satisfaction, customer collaboration and all those other nice things coming with the domain.

Always in to share experiences, read about and attend conferences concerning Lean, Agile, Scrum, continuous improvements, collaborating teams, leadership…

- Founder of “Agile Belgium” user group.
- Sessions provided during XP Days Benelux, Agile Belgium UG meetings, Agile Eastern Europe
- Co-teaching CSM/CSPO courses with established CST's
- CSM, CSPO, CSP

Jürgen De Smet’s Specialties:

- Organizational skills are Lean and Agile driven; Teams based on Scrum/XP methodology
- Architectural knowledge: J2EE, EJB3, ESB, BPM, SOA...
- Development skills in Java, Centura, VB, Python
- Database skills in Oracle going from plain SQL to advanced PL/SQL programming
- Tools & frameworks: hudson, cruisecontrol, Junit, findbugs, cobertura, checkstyle, maven, ant, hibernate, JBoss AS, tomcat...
- Healthcare standard knowledge: HL7, IHE, DICOM

Jürgen De Smet’s Experience

• Independent Lean & Agile trainer, coach, facilitator

  AgileFun

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  April 2009 — Present (9 months)

  As an independent Lean & Agile trainer, coach, facilitator we want to support companies to survive the current economic situation by enabling effective software development through collaboration.
  
  Training offers: CSM, CSPO, Lean, Agile Management...
  Coaching of management, teams, product management...
  Facilitating effective product workshops, (project) retrospectives, team setup...

• R&D Production Manager

  Agfa Healthcare

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Managing different teams within the Agfa Healthcare organization. This by applying my architectural skills as well as taking up the necessary HR responsibilities and process/change management.
  
  Implementing the SCRUM methodology within the R&D organization using the available tools & resources. Other activities are recruitment, carrier planning for employees & general team coordinator coaching.
  
  The teams are located mainly in St Martens-Latem (Gent-Belgium), Trier (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Bordeaux (France) and provide health care solutions world wide.

Jürgen De Smet’s Education

• Cevora

  JBoss 2008 — 2008

  2 day JBoss AS configuration & installation course in April

• Cevora

  Praktisch Competentiemanagement 2008 — 2008

  2 day course in May 2008 concerning carrier planning for employees & competence management overall.

• Innovel

  CSPO , Certified Scrum Product Owner , 2008 — 2008

  2 day certified scrum product owner training in November, given by Robin Dymond within the Agfa Ghent offices.

• Sprint-IT

  CSM , Certified Scrum Master , 2008 — 2008

  2 day certified scrum master course in Vienna - Austria with special Cooking event. Course given by Boris Gloger & Jeff Sutherland in March 2008. See sprint it website for more info.

• Cevora

  none , Leidinggeven aan verspreide teams , 2007 — 2007

• Cevora

  none , UML2.0 , 2007 — 2007

• SUN

  none , SUN JCAPS Workshop , 2006 — 2006

• IBM

  none , Essentials of Rational ClearCase UCM , 2005 — 2005

• Cevora

  none , Projectmanagement , 2003 — 2003

• Cevora

  none , Coachen en leiden van een team eerstelijnsverantwoordelijken , 2003 — 2003

• Hogeschool Gent

  Bachelor , Informatics Analysis & Development , 1992 — 1996

  Thesis: extend customer support application for Quadrat NV

• Hogeschool Gent

  informatics 1992 — 1996

• Atheneum Kortrijk

  Mathematics 1988 — 1992