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INTERMEDIATE

Getting Unstuck. Strategies for Surviving in a Rapidly Changing Post-Agile World

This talk addresses the challenges of rapid change and competition in today's economy. It offers practical strategies to balance maintenance, renovation, and innovation, emphasizing customer focus, agility, and adaptability. By redefining agile frameworks, it aims to help organizations evolve and foster continuous growth, using real-life examples to illustrate these concepts.

Sander Hoogendoorn
Sander HoogendoorniBOOD.com

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Friday, June 20, 11:15-12:05
Main Room
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This is the era of rapid and increasing change, adapting rapidly or perishing. Many organizations, big and small, struggle to survive. Their products and software have aged and become hard to maintain until they reach Technical Death, where all available effort goes into mere survival. At the same time, in our global economy, competition comes from anywhere, with better products built at lower costs. Organizations must jump the Innovators’ Dilemma and reinvent themselves to stay ahead of the competition.

Speed, agility, and adaptability are more crucial than ever. However, agile frameworks became both a solution and a source of uncertainty and rigidity. Organizations seek fresh perspectives and adaptable strategies and techniques. They are stuck.

This talk presents a battle-tested repertoire of practical strategies and techniques that serve as a compass for comprehending and continuously navigating between maintenance, renovation, and innovation, maintaining a solid focus on customer-centricity, reaching your dot on the horizon while instilling transparency, autonomy, collaboration, and microteams.

This talk empowers you to evolve from conventional and cultivate a culture of continuous growth. Of course, it offers a treasure trove of real-life stories from the trenches, providing an authentic glimpse into agile but redefined for the modern era. This talk will help your organization to get unstuck.
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Sander Hoogendoorn

Sander Hoogendoorn

iBOOD.com

Netherlands

Sander Hoogendoorn is an independent dad, traveler, and lifelong software craftsman. With over four decades of hands-on coding experience, he still writes code daily—proving that real developers never stop learning. Throughout his career, he has navigated the tech world in roles ranging from CTO at companies like iBOOD (currently), ANVA, and Klaverblad to serving as Capgemini's global agile thought leader.

Known for his post-agile mindset and fearless approach to challenging the status quo, Sander helps organizations and teams break free from outdated practices and embrace innovation. He’s not just about writing code—he’s about rewriting the rules.

As an author and dynamic international speaker, Sander shares his insights at conferences worldwide, covering topics such as disruption, culture, life beyond agile, continuous delivery, microteams, software architecture, monads, microservices, and the art of writing elegant code. He champions critical thinking, strategic design, and mindful development to help teams build better software, faster.

Discover Sander—the coding rebel who believes in small steps, big impact, and the mind as the ultimate tool for success.
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