Johan Lybaert is Sector Manager at Cegeka. He has more than 29 year experience in delivery of IT projects. He has always be adept of using the relevant methodology and development practices to deliver in a successful way his projects.

Johan  was responsible for the Program Ventouris, the biggest J2EE project (30 manyear) in the Benelux that has been developed following the agile development approach. The Ventouris project is a development of a complex administrative application that as a product need to be used by 8 different customers, each customer with the same mission but different in size and different in internal business processes.

He has been speaker at Javapolis 2005, 2006 with as presentation topic : lessons learned of applying agile development practices on a large project ‘ Ventouris’, and in 2007 on ‘customer collaboration’ – the BMW case. He has been speaker on the XP-days.

The agile development approach has been introduced within Cegeka on Ventouris in 2005. Today Cegeka is using scrum & XP practices on all are projects with as result delighted customers, getting the system they really want within the agreed budget and timing. Recently they started working with distributed teams in Romania.

Today Johan is the chairman of the Belgium Chapter of the Agile Consortium see www.agileconsortium.be

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Topic: Turning IT into Strategic Advantage

The presentation is a real project story of Ventouris. Ventouris is one of the biggest J2EE software development projects in Belgium (30.000 mandays – 4 years). The Ventouris product is a custom build software for 8 customers all responsible for the social security administration of the self-employed people in Belgium.

Cegeka took this project as an opportunity to move from RUP methodology towards Agile Methodology. We will explain the reasons why this move was a good risk mitigation and how we applied all the scrum and XP practices on a large scale.

Today this software product Ventouris is already 3 years in production and we have very satisfied customers which receives a new release every 2 weeks. The software team is using for the maintenance also Kanban best practices to manage this. Last year we worked on, Ventouris in a distributed scrum team with Romania – also this topic will be covered.