Sander van der Sloot

As a consultant with Eraneos I assist organisations in transition to align supporting IT by helping teams making agile architecture choises. Futhermore I train and coach the development teams in the area of agility and the different roles.

As a technical consultant with Mirabeau I have a wide role which can be described as ‘the technical conscience’ for a client. For instance the assignment with Heineken International. Heineken has an online platform on which all individual countries can roll out campaigns for their brands. My contribution was on the one hand advising and supporting the brand managers and the project managers of the suppliers to realise their requirements in time. On the other hand we developed and renovated the platform. The result was that our team successfully improved the self-sufficiency of the brand managers so that we could concentrate on the development of the architecture of the platform. The latter assignment also applied to Transavia. Transavia has a complex architecture, which could not meet the fast changing requests of the business. After a few months of research, a colleague architect and I developed a vision of the architecture by using trial test themes. We developed a roadmap for this vision. My assignments are not always about architecture and techniques. At Mirabeau’s we make use of ‘multi-customer scrum teams’. These teams acquire a wide range of knowledge of a sector. There is a residential sector team for three housing corporations. I maintain customer contacts and I contact the suppliers of the customers. Together with others I am also responsible for compliance with Agile. This resembles the assignment with Sundio. They work with four DevOps scrum teams. In the opinion of the people of Sundio four teams in one architecture will result in ‘pipeline’ problems, even with teams each having their own backlog. I serve as a sounding board and consultant to realise an architecture compatible with autonomous teams.

ABN AMRO works with a mobile application (iPhone and Android) for private clients. The various bank departments have additional requirements. The goal of the project was to realise these requirements and at the same time maintain the existing functionality of internet banking. My job was analysing their wishes, selecting reusable functionalities or necessary changes of architecture and designing the components to be built. Project realisation was Scrum. The result was that various working new releases of the mobile application were being rolled out.

DUO is the implementation service of OCW ( the Ministry for Education, Culture and Science). It donates money to educational institutions and monitors the annual accounts within the current legislation and regulations. DUO works with software supported processes. The goal of the project was the implementation of changes in legislation and regulations into the supporting software. I was the manager of the team of information analysts and developers, I made a planning in terms of time and means, managed the process and set up tooling to ease the chain from change management to deployment. I have developed a set of Prince2 templates to control the projects. In addition I also played a role in a transition from management and maintenance to outsourcing arrangements, in the function point implementation and two migration processes. As a result DUO can meet the obligations to education and OCW.

The Employee Insurance Administration (UWV) exchanges information with (local) government(s) and employers. The UWV required a faster system which realises the exchange without the involvement of intermediaries. As team manager I have been able to convince the Agile team to reconsider the architecture of the application. I carried out a migration of the development environment and improved the developing and testing process. It was also because of my efforts that a system was realised that is easy to maintain and expand and which fully met the requirements of UWV. VROM (Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment) used a manual process to control incidents. VROM required an integral web site to be built, automating and supporting the process to enable all the authorities involved to obtain and supply information. In this project I assisted in setting up use cases, I wrote the initial testing plan and did the technical design. After a nationwide test the web site was successfully launched. Maetis wished to solve a great number of problems in their system and make changes as well, all in short time. I succeeded to understand the subject matter and the software in a very short time and in this way I contributed to the success. Web trainer is a web application for recreational racing cyclists and semi-professional ones. It has been developed according to the ideas of a well-known cyclist coach. The performances of the cyclists can be enhanced on the basis of training schedules. In this way I can mix my job and my hobby: programming and cycling. I performed a special assignment for Aino. Together with a TMap specialist I had to figure out the functionalities of an employment contract system by performing all kinds of tests. I then described the functionalities in UseCases. The KNSB (Royal Dutch Skating Association) required a different system for their match administration. The management of the requirements was a big challenge as not only the skating association itself had requirements, there were also twelve skating rinks involved, each with special requirements, which were sometimes contradictory. I saw to the realisation and implementation of all these requirements