Bas Vodde

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 and individual/technical practices. He has trained thousands of people in software development, Scrum and modern agile practices for over a decade.

Bas is the author of 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. 

He works for Odd-e, a company which supports organizations 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 (formally 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 Bas 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 product development. But he also enjoyed working in technical practices, especially test-driven development (especially in embedded environments) and continuous integration. He keeps working as a developer because he strongly believes 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. 

Upcoming courses

Professional Product Management (PPM) – Product Strategy & Roadmaps 

Become a better decision maker and show your true entrepreneurial skills with this Professional Product Management (PPM™) training module: Product Strategy & Roadmaps. Through crafting a better product strategy, accompanied by outcome-driven product objectives and a tangible and visual product roadmap, you will be able to make informed product decisions, drive innovation, and deliver more value to your customers, and your organization. Unleash your potential with a practical and engaging training program. 

Robbin Schuurman

Product Management
3 days
In Person

Next:

10 Jun, 2025

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€1995

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Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-E)

Master Agile leadership and boost your Scrum Team’s and organization’s performance with our PAL-E training.

Ron Eringa

Agile Leadership
Scrum.org
2 days
In Person

Next:

10 – 11 Jun, 2025

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€1795

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Communication for Engineers

This Communication for Engineers training provides a systematic approach to improving your communication skills.

1 day
In Person

Next:

11 Jun, 2025

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€835

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Python for Data Analysis

Learn how to code in Python and perform data analysis with our Python for Data Analysis training.

Lysanne van Beek

Data Science
Python
2 days
Virtual

Next:

11 – 11 Jun, 2025

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€1360

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Machine Learning Explainability 

Learn how to apply Machine Learning explainability techniques based on implementations from popular packages. 

Lysanne van Beek

Machine Learning
1 day
In Person

Next:

12 Jun, 2025

From:

€725

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