Sander Hoogendoorn

In his role of principal technology officer at Capgemini, Sander Hoogendoorn is concerned with the innovation of software development. He is also responsible for Capgemini’s agile software development platform, which is called the Accelerated Delivery Platform (ADP).

Sander is recognized as an agile thought leader and is also a certified global software engineer (level 4) at Capgemini. Sander’s expertise ranges from (agile and non-agile) software development methodologies, software architecture, design patterns, anti-patterns, business process and software modeling, UML, model driven software development, .Net, Java and software development tools.

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He coaches organizations and projects and writes code whenever he gets a chance. Sander is a member of Microsoft’s Advisory Board for Visual Studio. He is also a member of the advisory board of @Portunity (MDA vendor), the editorial boards for Software Release Magazine and the new Tijdschrift voor IT Management and is a Development Expert for Computable magazine.

Publications

Sander has written books on UML and agile software development.

He hopes to find the time to write new books on Smart (the agile methodology), smart use cases, pragmatic software architecture and patterns for .Net (and Java and PHP), project anti-patterns, agile anti-patterns and perhaps even a Dummies-like book with hundreds of tips on visiting conferences.

Sander has published numerous articles and columns in international magazines, such as OBJECTSpectrum, International Developer Magazine, DevX, Software Release Magazine, .Net Magazine, Optimize, Informatie and Database Magazine, Tijdschrift voor IT Management. Sander is also a columnist for Software Release Magazine and SDN Magazine.

Talks

Besides that Sander is a frequent and enthusiastic speaker at Dutch and international conferences, which include OOP (Germany), JAOO (Denmark), SET (Switzerland), Javapolis (Belgium), TDWI, DW&I (UK), DevDays and Database Systems.

Sander also runs seminars and workshops on UML, .Net, design patterns, and agile software development both in the Netherlands (at Array Seminars) and in Belgium (at IT Works).

Accelerated Delivery Platform

The ADP platform allows Capgemini and its customers to industrialize projects using the accelerators the platform offers, such as Smart lifecycle, the use of smart use cases, pragmatic smart use case based estimation techniques, agile dashboarding and burn charting to monitor project progress, model driven development, code generation, frameworks and unified testing techniques. Elements of the platform are adopted by a fast growing international community, as well within Capgemini as with its customers. ADP accelerators have been used by several types of projects, including .Net, Java, SharePoint, and more recently in SAP implementations and BI.