Martine Devos is an Organizational Development Consultant and trainer, with over 30 years of managerial experience in both traditional and Agile environments. She is a passionate thought-leader of Agile methodologies, coaching over 25,000 people in the theories and practices behind Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean Software Management and Kanban.
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Martine's courses are built on 30+ years of experience, ideas, beliefs, challenges and experiments, successes and some disappointing 'do- not-try-this-at-home' scenarios. After starting a career as teacher (business, economics and early computer science), she accepted the challenge to help change the way schools in Belgium interact with government and the public. Long-term contracting 'the good old way' did not work. She decided it was time to try a new approach. Based on a publication in the Harvard Business Review (The New New Product Development Game (Scrum) -- 1996, Nonaka and Takeuchi) she introduced iterative and incremental development into the Belgian government ICT. She published the technical approach (one of the first adaptable frameworks) and the iterative and incremental Scrum patterns.
For her early Scrum adoption work in the Belgian education department she received the title of ICT manager of the year in 1998. When Ken Schwaber started his certification program, she was invited to become one of the first qualified Certified Scrum Trainers. Martine mastered successive waves of technology innovation and has been hacking code for longer than she likes to admit. She has had the opportunity to work with CleanCoders/Agile Manifesto founders Bob Martin and James Grenning at Objectmentor in large scale transformation efforts in sectors from medical to telecom. Nowadays Martine engages with people and organizations as independent advisor. A trainer with comprehensive business background and strong analytical skills, she has a passion for detecting and solving tough problems.
As an assertive thought-leader she brought many product development efforts back on track in both the public and private sector. She has more than 30 years managerial experience in both traditional and agile environments. She has proven experience conceptualising, designing and deploying mission critical business-focused ICT solutions in Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies and in the public sector.
Her offerings include:
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
- Lean and Kanban
- Private consulting
- Bespoke Agile training
- LeSS (Large Scale Scrum)
Martine's courses and workshops provide PDUs for PMI and Scrum Education Units (SEUs) from the Scrum Alliance. As well as a selection of courses offered as public classes at Skills Matter. Martine's courses can also be delivered privately and adapted to your company's specific requirements.
Martine is a regular contributor and co-author of articles and white papers on Scrum, Agile and related best practices and ideas. Download the articles below by following the links:
Talks I've Given
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Workshop: Core Qualities, a Gateway to People Relations (used to be referred to as human resources)
Featuring Martine Devos
Working with core quadrant of core quality/pitfall/challenge/allergy (developed years ago by Daniel Ofman) we can gain insights into our own behaviour, expectations, fears and irritations in work situations.
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Ceci N’est Pas Un Scrum
Featuring Martine Devos, Colin Deady and Gitte Klitgaard
How exciting! "Agile is mainstream," and there are now hundreds of thousand of Scrum “masters”. Is that great? Or is it that we fell in a trap? We can sell books, talks, coaching services and classes, but we can not buy and sell ideas.
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Workshop: The Answer to “How?” is “Yes!” (Peter Block)
Featuring Martine Devos
The agile manifesto states: “individuals and interactions over process and tools” and yet the workshop by the agile coach and the scrum trainer ends up in the process track. We are going to look together into what happens with our ‘AGILE’.
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Experiential Learning: Systems Thinking with Martine Devos and Abid Quereshi
Featuring Abid Quereshi and Martine Devos
Come join London Scrum User Group for an experiential learning session with Martine Devos and Abid Quereshi !
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Workshop: System Dynamic Dialogue
Featuring Martine Devos
System Thinking and system dynamic modelling plays an important role in LeSS, popular agile scaling approach.
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Cynefin Lego with Martine Devos and Abid Quereshi
Featuring Abid Quereshi and Martine Devos
Come join Martine Devos for this exciting Experiential Learning workshop! You'll have an hands on evening learning from one of our most experienced experts at Skills Matter for this special event.
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System dynamics in teams with Martine Devos
Featuring Martine Devos
Interested in learning the best system dynamic for your management application? Join London Management 3.0 for their December meetup! In this session Martine will run simulations and play small games to experience system dynamics in teams and in other environments (depending on the number of...
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Experiential Learning with Martine Devos and Abid Quereshi
Featuring Abid Quereshi and Martine Devos
Many Scrum teams get into a pattern of two-week, mini-waterfall cycles; requirements analysis on Monday and Tuesday, the next seven days coding it up and the last two hours of the sprint to test it.
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Experiential Learning with Martine Devos and Abid Quereshi
Featuring Abid Quereshi and Martine Devos
Come join Agile coaches, Martine Devos and Abid Quereshi for this exciting Experiential Learning workshop! You'll have an hands on evening learning from two experienced experts at Skills Matter for this special event. With over 50 combined years of experience across multiple industries,...
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Experiential Learning with Martine Devos
Featuring Martine Devos
Come join Martine Devos for this exciting Experiential Learning workshop! You'll have an hands on evening learning from one of our most experienced experts at Skills Matter for this special event.
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Scrum - The Good, The Bad and The Not So Good
Featuring Martine Devos
Scrum is like raspberry jam — the more you spread it, the thinner it gets. What is the minimum we need to derive some real benefits, how can we avoid fooling ourselves about “being agile”, do we really need additional methods to scale….
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Keynote - Agile practical Implementations
Featuring Martine Devos
Martine Devos keynoted the "Agile practical Implementations" Session, chaired by Prof. Alberto Sillitti. She'll soon share this keynote with us at Skills Matter - stay tuned for dates (@skillsmatter)
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Agile Testing and BDD eXchange Park Bench Panel
Featuring Gojko Adzic and Martine Devos
Put your questions to a panel of experts at the end of day one of the Agile Testing and BDD eXchange. This panel will be led by programme lead Gojko Adzic who will take questions from the floor. We are excited to welcome guest panelist Martine Devos who will join speakers and workshop leaders...
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Agile Clinic - October
Featuring Martine Devos
Discuss your agile, scrum, and kanban problems in this monthly Agile clinic run by leading expert Martine Devos. This month the group will meet on Monday the 21st of October.
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Agile Clinic - Rubbish in! Rubbish Out!
Featuring Martine Devos and Jon Dolden
Discuss your agile, scrum, and kanban problems in this monthly Agile clinic run by leading expert Martine Devos. At this months clinic Jon Dolden tells us how to gain a significant competitive edge.
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Agile Clinic - July
Featuring Martine Devos
Discuss your agile, scrum, and kanban problems in this monthly Agile clinic run by leading expert Martine Devos. This month the group will meet on May 13th.
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Agile Clinic - June
Featuring Martine Devos
Discuss your agile, scrum, and kanban problems in this monthly Agile clinic run by leading expert Martine Devos. This month the group will meet on June 3rd.
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Games night 2
Featuring Martine Devos
For this games night, Martine Devos has kindly offered to running a new game that is a little more advanced and will suit people who have at least some basic understanding of kanban or those have been already practising kanban-like techniques.
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Agile & Lean Open Space Session with Pizza & Drinks
Featuring Martine Devos
After a brief serving of Pizza & Drinks, we'll hold an Agile & Lean OpenSpace session, led by Martine Devos, to discuss ideas, things we learned, things we would like to hear more about, things to take away after the conference.
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