Michael Franken

Current

Certified Scrum Trainer at Scrum Alliance
Founder and President at AgileHolland
Agile Management Consultant & Coach, Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Architect at Zilverline

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Past

Board Member at Agile Consortium Benelux
Managing Director at Legalines ICT
CTO at Xebia

CTO at DMDsecure
CTO at marviQ
Senior Consultant at Netscape Communications
Senior Consultant, Developer, Team lead, Project leader at Cap Gemini

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Education

University of Utrecht
Scrum Alliance

Recommended

28 people have recommended Michael

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Michael Franken’s Summary

Michael is Certified Scrum Trainer and experienced Software Engineer. He coaches management and development teams on Agile practices and principles.

Michael has successfully introduced SCRUM in many places in the Netherlands and has worked with Jeff Sutherland, Gabrielle Benefield, Henrik Kniberg and Tobias Mayer, and continues to do so.

Jeff Sutherland very strongly recommends Michael:

"Several years ago Michael asked me to help [...] implement Scrum in the Netherlands and India. Since then we have worked together and the teams he originated are now some of the best in the world with papers published at Agile 2008 and accepted for Agile 2009. A couple of years ago, Michael started his own company, Zilverline, and asked me to train with him in the Amsterdam area. We have done several courses together and I can enthusiastically say that Michael is one of the best trainers I have worked with."

Michael is an experienced Enterprise architect that continually aims to combine productivity and quality. He combines technical skills with business sense and entrepreneurship.

Michael has been a driving force behind two startups: marviQ and Xebia. Within Xebia Michael has set up a successful distributed Agile delivery model with their India subsidiary. (See http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/2007/04/oursourcing-strategy-only-work-with.html)

Michael strongly believes in the Toyota way, and loves to inspire and challenge people and teams to continually improve themselves and to have fun while doing that.

Michael's mission is to bridge the gap between technology and business. He has executed roles ranging from CTO to lead architect, and from project manager to sales support. He's been hands-on with C, C++, CORBA, and Java for more than 10 years. Michael combines deep insight in technology, and management experience. Occasionally he's a visionary.

Keeps hands-on through active software development. Author of Zilverline project (www.zilverline.org).

Michael Franken’s Specialties:

J2EE, java, architecture, consultancy. Spring, Project Management, Development management, Scrum, RUP, Testing and QA. Agile development, Strategic IT, Directory services.

Michael Franken’s Experience

Certified Scrum Trainer

Scrum Alliance

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2009 — Present (1 month)
Founder and President

AgileHolland

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

AgileHolland is a Dutch community that promotes use of Agile practices
AgileHolland is dé Nederlandse Agile Community
Agile Management Consultant & Coach, Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Architect

Zilverline

(Management Consulting industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Zilverline specializes in Agile Management Consultancy, Training and Audits.
Board Member

Agile Consortium Benelux

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Formerly known as DSDM Consortium Benelux
Managing Director

Legalines ICT

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2007 — January 2008 (5 months)

Legalines ICT specializes in hiring skilled IT personnel from foreign countries and offers an interesting career in ICT at organizations in the Netherlands.
CTO

Xebia

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2003 — September 2007 (4 years 3 months)

Responsible for Xebia's technical direction. Defines company's vision on technology. Internal and external communication of Xebia's technology. Sales support on key accounts. Coaching of business units and expertise groups. Technical review of key deliverables.

Introduced Agile and Scrum principles and practices, as well as high quality Software Engineering practices and the offshoring model with the office in India.

As technical director responsible for hiring skilled java architects and developers, training and coaching professionals on the job.

Senior consultancy on J2EE architecture and development. Strategic, technical consultancy for and at top 100 Dutch companies, such as KLM, KPN, Wehkamp, ProRail, Amsterdam.
CTO

DMDsecure

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2003 — June 2003 (6 months)

Responsible for design, development and shipment of core J2EE product. Initiator of new .NET product line for midsize market. Reports to CEO.
CTO

marviQ

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 1999 — January 2003 (3 years 10 months)

Responsible for creation of one of the very first Application Service Provider propositions in Europe. Responsible for hiring great team and the development of the IQ framework which consists of CRM, ERP, Document mgt. services integrated in J2EE Portal environment.
Senior Consultant

Netscape Communications

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 1996 — May 1999 (3 years 1 month)
Senior Consultant, Developer, Team lead, Project leader

Cap Gemini

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1991 — April 1996 (4 years 7 months)

Projects and Responsibilities
• Internet and Electronic Commerce Consultancy and Project Management (1997)
• Project Leader and architect for an Electronic Commerce Project for KPN MultiMall, one of Europe's first e-Commerce development projects. (1995-1996)
• Initiator of Cap Gemini’s Internet Competence Center. Including business case assessment, proposal writing, project staffing, project management and account management. (1994-1995)
• Technical manager of an international research project on Software quality management relating to OO design and architecture (1993-1994)
• As a research engineer at Cap Gemini Innovation I designed and implemented a ‘One-of-a-kind’ production business model: reusable C++ classes for Windows and Unix platforms. Writing parsers to generate code (C++, CORBA IDL) and documentation from OMT (UML) modeling language and reverse. (1992-1993)

Michael Franken’s Education

University of Utrecht

drs, , Math and Computer Science , January 1985 — April 1991
Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Practitioner , 2006

Additional Information

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Michael Franken’s Interests:

Family and Friends, Bright and motivated people. Agile, Lean, Software Engineering, Steven Covey, Improvised Music, Zappa, Hendrix, Coltrane, Bartok, all music from ECM label. Mountain biking, Sailing, Guitar. Italian Food and design.