"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand"

— Albert Einstein

Martine Devos

Senior Trainer, Mentor and Consultant

A Certified Scrum Master Trainer, Martine Devos is an expert in Agile/XP principles, practices and processes. She has over 30 years of experience in coaching, training, and project management. Today, Martine works with Object Mentor clients to produce Agile product specifications, write acceptance tests using Fitnesse, write use cases and stories, and enhance team effectiveness through short interventions and facilitation's (e.g. retrospectives, project kick-offs, product charters, assessments. open space exercises, opportunity scouting, group mind mapping exercises). Martine loves nothing more than to work with a team, to solve difficult software challenges, share new ideas, explore potential solutions, and share in the joy of delivering well-designed software.

Work Experience

Object Mentor Incorporated and Object Mentor Europe, 2005 - Present

Trainer, Mentor and Consultant

Avayalabs, 2001-2005
Senior Researcher
Responsible for engineering practices. Specializing in planning and Control using a system dynamics approach.

EDS Belgium, 1999-2001
Business Planning Consultant
Director Software Engineering Strategy and Planning EMEA Designing and tuning Agile practices-customers in Europe and US, Office of the CTO Director ICT department-Ministry of Education Belgium, Advisor Cabinet of Education--Developing simulation software for budget negotiations.

Education

Masters of Arts in System Dynamics (currently in progress)
Worcester Polytechnic, Massachusetts

Bachelor of Arts in Business Informatics
University Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Bachelor of Science in Economics
University Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Bachelor of Arts in Teacher Applied Economics

University Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Post-Experience Management ICT
Vlerick Management School BE, Belgium

Certified for Myers-Briggs Type Indicator MBTI
Association for Psychology Type

Certified Scrum Master Practitioner and Trainer
Ken Schwaber

Publications

Repository Based Framework for evolutionary software development

Devos and Tilman

Wiley, 1999

Scrum: A pattern language for highly productive teams

Beedle, Devos, Schwaber, Sutherland.

Addison-Wesley, 2000

Architecture as Metaphor.

Coplien and Devos.

Proceedings Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics,
Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2000