Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders

About Jurgen Appelo

Jurgen Appelo is a writer speaker trainer developer entrepreneur manager blogger reader dreamer leader and freethinker. And hes Dutch which explains his talent for being weird.   After studying software engineering at the Delft University of Technology and earning his Masters degree in 1994 Jurgen busied himself either starting up or leading a variety of Dutch businesses always in the position of team leader manager or executive.   Jurgens most recent occupation was CIO at ISM eCompany one of the largest e-business solution providers in The Netherlands. As a manager Jurgen has experience in leading software developers development managers project managers quality managers service managers and kangaroos some of which he hired accidentally.   He is primarily interested in software development and complexity theory from a managers perspective. As a writer he has published papers and articles in many magazines and he maintains a blog at www.noop.nl. As a speaker he is regularly invited to talk at seminars and conferences.   Last but not least Jurgen is a trainer with workshops based on the Management 3.0 model. His materials address the topics of energizing people empowering teams aligning constraints developing competence growing structure and improving everything.   However sometimes he puts all writing speaking and training aside to do some programming himself or to spend time on his ever-growing collection of science fiction and fantasy literature which he stacks in a self-designed book case that is four meters high.   Jurgen lives in Rotterdam (The Netherlands)and sometimes in Brussels (Belgium)with his partner Raoul. He has two kids and an imaginary hamster called George.