Microsoft TechDays (The Hague, The Netherlands. October 2016)

After an absence of two year (have done Java inbetween) I’m returning to the Microsoft TechDays. This time I’m doing two talks. One about beyond agile titled Beyond Breaking Bad, and a talk titled Thirty Months of Microservices, discussing the experiences I’ve had over the last thirty months regarding microservices and continuous delivery. See more at: http://www.techdays.nl/

GeeCon (Krakow, Poland. May 2016)

GeeCon is a large JVM oriented developer conference, held in the great city of Krakow, Poland. Featuring over 1200 delegates, and 75+ speakers, it is one of the largest developer conferences in Eastern Europe. I will do a talk on the current state of microservices, should be big fun.. See more http://2016.geecon.org/

DevWeek (London, UK. April 2016)

DevWeek is one of the largest developer conferences in the UK, organized in the city center of London, featuring more than 110 breakout sessions and 20 full-day workshops! After having done the opening keynote two years ago I will do two talks this year, on agile beyond agile, and lessons learned after two years of microservices. See more http://devweek.com/

Software Quality Days (Vienna, Austria. January 2016. Keynote)

Will do on of two keynotes at the Software Quality Days in Vienna, Austria. Topic will be around quality in agile software development. I will also do a half day masterclass on smart use cases. Noteworthy is that Scott Ambler will do the other keynote. Software Quality Days: http://2016.software-quality-days.com/en/ Keynotes: http://2016.software-quality-days.com/en/conference/keynotes/ My masterclass on smart use cases: http://2016.software-quality-days.com/en/conference/conference-program/

TI Conference Days (Antwerp, Belgium. November 2015)

For the fourth (or fifth, I don’t remember) year in a row I will do a talk at the TI Conference Days at the Karel de Grote Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium. Switching subject this year from agile to microservices and continuous delivery. TI Conference Days: http://www.tievents.be/conferencedays/ And here’s my slidedeck: Microservices. Stairway to heaven or highway to hell from Sander […]

Software Architect (London, UK. October 2015. Keynote)

Software Architect is a very nice architecture conference in the heart of London. This year I will do the opening keynote (together with Simon Brown), and a talk on the current state of agile. My keynote is titled Microservices. The good, the bad and the ugly. The development and maintenance of monoliths presents organisations with increasing challenges, resulting in high […]

EA User Group (Brussel, Belgium. September 2015. Keynote)

Did the opening keynote for the Brussels Enterprise Architect User Group Event in September 2015. The topic for my keynote was Modeling Microservices, where I talked about using modeling techniques in doing microservices architecture, such as smart use cases, domain modeling, bounded context and resource modeling. EA User Group: http://www.eausergroup.com/16-next-event/104-brussels-event-agenda-sept-18th-2015

SwanSeaCon (Swansea, Wales. September 2015)

SwanSeaCon is the first edition of a new software development conference in Swansea, Wales. I delivered a talk titled Microservices. Stairway to heaven of highway to hell? I might deliver the keynote at the second edition in 2016. SwanseaCon: http://swanseacon.co.uk/ Slides from my talk: http://www.slideshare.net/aahoogendoorn/designing-and-building-a-microservices-architecture-stairway-to-heaven-or-a-highway-to-hell

Software Development 2020 (Breda, Netherlands. June 2015. Keynote)

At this event, organised by the Avans Hogeschool in Breda in the Netherlands I will do the opening keynote, most likely with my talk Microservices. The good, the bad and the ugly. Micro-services and micro-services architecture are the next hype in software development. Websites and blogs are full of introducing posts, the first books are being written and the first […]

Future of Project Management. PMI Chapter Event (Breda, Netherlands. April 2015)

During a lively evening in a room full of project managers, I tried to explain how agile is changing the role of project management in software development, and I even went as far as to to claim that the project metaphor isn’t really well suited for software development. My talk was titled Challenging The Future of Agile. I look back […]

DevWeek (London, UK. March 2015)

DevWeek is the UK’s leading developer conference returns with more content than ever before, featuring more than 100 breakout sessions and 23 full-day workshops. Last year I did the keynote, this year I did two sessions. The first session was titled Individuals and interactions over proce$$e$ and fools and the second was a hands-on coding session titled Introducing and extending […]

Ordina Agile Achitecture Event (Nieuwegein, Netherlands. February 2015)

Nieuwegein, Netherlands. February 2015. My former employer Ordina is organizing an nightly free event with agile architecture as the main topic. During this event, which will take place February 5, I will do the closing talk, taking about an hour to discuss microservices. Read more and register at: http://www.ordina.nl/nl-nl/evenementen/20150205—sa-kennissessie-agile-architectuur/ Ttitle an topic for my talk will likely be the following. […]

Scaling Agile For The Enterprise (Brussels, Belgium. January 2015)

Brussels, Belgium. January 2015. The Agile Consortium Belgium organized a nice one-day event around scaling agile for the enterprise, mainly discussing enterprise agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS and DAD, with presenters such as Dean Leffingwell and Mark Limes. As an alternative to these heavyweight frameworks, I did a talk on how to build agile from the ground up, discussing […]