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 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:

13 – 14 Oct, 2025

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€1795

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Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Become a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) for optimal product delivery. Learn the skills and tools you need to excel in this pivotal role.

Gino Shahidi

Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
2 days
In Person

Next:

16 – 17 Oct, 2025

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€1595

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Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) Foundation™

Unlock your team’s potential with our Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) Foundation training. Read more!

Chris Baron

Agile Leadership
Product Leader
3 days
In Person

Next:

28 Oct, 2025

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€1925

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Data Warehousing and Data Modeling

Build a solid foundation of data warehousing and modeling with this training. You’ll learn everything about data warehouse architectures, formal data modeling, performance tuning and more.

Lucy Sheppard 

Data Engineering
Data Modeling
data warehousing
1 day
In Person

Next:

7 Nov, 2025

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€725

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Deep Learning and AI in One Day

Enrico Erler

Deep Learning
1 day
Virtual

Next:

10 Nov, 2025

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€670

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