Netherlands

See Jurgen presenting at Agileee 2009.

Jurgen is a writer, speaker, developer, entrepreneur, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and... Dutch guy.

Jurgen's current occupation is Business Unit Manager at Sociotoco, and Chief Information Officer at ISM eCompany. With 200 employees it is one of the leading e-commerce solution providers in The Netherlands. As a manager, Jurgen has experience in leading a horde of 100 software developers, development managers, project managers, business consultants, quality managers, service managers and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally.

Jurgen is primarily interested in software engineering, quality improvement and complexity theory, from a manager's perspective. As a writer he has published a number of papers and articles in several magazines, including Dr. Dobb's, Software Quality Professional, Methods & Tools, The Software Practitioner, StickyMinds, Software Development Network, Computable and Automatisering Gids.

He is also a speaker, being regularly invited to talk at seminars and conferences about agile software development, project management, process improvement, and development management. He maintains a blog at www.noop.nl, and he is writing a book with the working title "Management 3.0", which has its own community at www.management30.com.