Olivier Costa

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Simplication officer at Simplification Officers @ BDR Thermea Group
apeldoorn, gelderland, netherlands
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Ghent Metropolitan Area, Belgium
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About Olivier Costa

I help organisations to enable their ICT until it becomes their central core to deliver their unique value. Organisations often feel hijacked by their ICT department. They do strange things, cost a lot of money and deliver late and with errors. ICT on the other hand finds it hard to deliver when requirements aren't clear and/or always in motion. It is my goal to bridge the gap between the organisation and their ICT core. It all starts with improving communication. Business asking better questions, and ICT making their efforts transparent in business language. But also among the different ICT teams communication is often difficult. And it doesn't help if there are clear hierarchical barriers and choking points, inviting politics and ineffectiveness while trying to maximize efficiency. Often the ICT force is also struggling with the fast-paced evolutions in the industry, while trying to keep their legacy beasts under control. That means there are three distinct area's that we will work on :VALUE - defining, refining, emergingFLOW - minimize lead-time & process waste, maximize feedbackQUALITY - design flexible & extendable systems without regressionsPractically this means, helping business and IT to talk the same 'ubiquitous language'. Both in discovering what is value, and in reusing this language in the automated tests and coding structures until it is possible for business and IT to collaborate daily on today's needs (rather than the potential needs in 3, 6, 12, ... months). The resulting applications, the process & the automated systems delivering them, require an ever-learning organisation. This requires a drastic change in management style. It is my forte to inspire people to discover this 'brave new world' and to practically collaborate with everyone that wants to contribute. I do that by being in the trenches with you. Help prepare & formulate communications, lead technical sessions until the teams can learn autonomously, help create/fine-tune your unique delivery process. I have high expectations but then ... so do you. Contact me on info@AEGISoft.be.

Olivier Costa's Current Company Details
BDR Thermea Group

Bdr Thermea Group

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Simplication officer at Simplification Officers
apeldoorn, gelderland, netherlands
Website:
bdrthermea.com
Employees:
533
Olivier Costa Work Experience Details
  • Bdr Thermea Group
    Agile Practices Coach
    Bdr Thermea Group Mar 2022 - Present
    Apeldoorn, Mertzwiller
    The Digital and Controls department of the BDR-TG organization is responsible to deliver the software of the heating and cooling appliances they put in the market with their partners. When the leadership recognized that their response time & delivery quality began impeding their ability to serve their partners & customers, they started a multi-level initiative to learn how to both speed up delivery and do that with significantly less avoidable defects. Other @Simplification-Officers are working at the organization level, allowing me to focus on my forte : the technical capabilities. We started out with creating a customized training for their context (embedded C & C++ on Linux). After the 1st training-wave, POs & Archtitects started to notice positive effects (more understanding of the product as a whole, less avoidable defects, less misunderstandings - previously leading to delays). But some trainees felt unable to apply the techniques on their own code-base. So we continued by actively joining the teams in their value-delivery and help them transform their code-base step-by-step to allow test-automation to cover all relevant functionality within minutes. Our goals (as ever) is to bring 80% of all functionality under an automated test-system that provides live feedback - while the teams are developing (as opposed to after). The left-over tests, run in 'slow-running' test cycles that provide feedback within a few hours. Currently the Heat-Pump teams are building up the experience to continuously refactor their code-base (as part of daily work) and continuously increasing and improving their test-coverage so that it becomes a central part of their code-documentation and delivery safety-net. They're also creating the infrastructure to automate their current 200+ manual test scenario's. This speeds up the feedback from 2 weeks to 2 hours. Creating more time for the testers to find new, meaningful test-scenario's to automate.
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  • Simplification Officers
    Simplication Officer
    Simplification Officers Mar 2021 - Present
    Belgium
    It is my forte to inspire people to discover the ever-evolving world of digital value delivery and to practically collaborate with everyone that wants to contribute. I do that by being in the trenches with you : Help prepare & formulate communications, lead technical sessions until the teams can learn autonomously, help create/fine-tune and simplify your unique delivery process.I have high expectations but then ... so do you.
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  • Aegisoft Bvba
    Owner
    Aegisoft Bvba Oct 2005 - Present
    Oost Vlaanderen
    When I'm not helping teams working on large scale enterprise applications (those are listed as separate positions), I offer my experience as part-time software engineer, agile coach, facilitator or aikidoka to all kinds of smaller projects. I like to switch between those 2 kinds of work as I find they enrich each other.
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  • Co-Learning - We Help You Create Great Products With Great Teams!
    It-Leadership Coach
    Co-Learning - We Help You Create Great Products With Great Teams! Jun 2019 - Mar 2021
    Gent Area, Belgium
    It is my forte to inspire people to discover the ever-evolving world of digital value delivery and to practically collaborate with everyone that wants to contribute. I do that by being in the trenches with you. Help prepare & formulate communications, lead technical sessions until the teams can learn autonomously, help create/fine-tune your unique delivery process. I have high expectations but then ... so do you.
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  • Miyoko.Academy
    Co-Owner & Trainer
    Miyoko.Academy Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
    Gent Area, Belgium
    When we develop software we rarely have/take the time to learn new habits. While the IT- industry is evolving very fast. In our day-to-day work we rely on already-learned habits and execute as fast as possible. Miyoko.Academy therefor creates specific trainings to lay the foundation of your new habits. After the training you'll know several fun, short & repeatable exercises to bring to the workfloor and inspire your team-mates.
  • Xplorewood (For Toyota)
    Team Of Teams Facilitator
    Xplorewood (For Toyota) Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
    Leuven,
    I took the opportunity to be part of a fantastic team that is helping Toyota-Europe to reap the benefits of fast, high-quality software solutions. I could play the role that's best suited for me : Team-member. I go where I can be most useful at any time. Working with several profiles and helping out on the three aspects of software delivery: functional, organizational and technical. Over the year the team of ca. 30 people transformed into 2 main teams, each serving a specific customer area. Each team has defined clear collaboration policies to further improve their organizational flow in their retro's. The component leads have build a roadmap to further increase the technical quality.
  • Agile In The Core
    It Leadership Coach
    Agile In The Core Sep 2014 - Aug 2018
    Leuven
    Under the 'Agile in the Core' umbrella, I'm involved together with some of the best belgian agile coaches in several agile transformations. We will help the coached teams and IT management to realize their goals while keeping or improving the quality of the deliverables and shortening the time to market. We combine our expertise on Operational & Tactical level with coaching on Strategic level to support the transformations.
  • Cegeka
    Agile It Manager
    Cegeka Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
    Antwerp Area, Belgium
    One of the coaching projects evolved into a real single-focus project again. The Corlabs team has quite a history in automating the processes of medical laboratories around the world, using a wide variety of technologies (Java, C, C#) build on top of an RPG core. The team now reached a turning point where we need to reevaluate where we are in the market and where we want to be. I'm grateful to have been invited to be part of this endeavor.
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  • Software Factory (Cegeka)
    Agile Coach
    Software Factory (Cegeka) Sep 2012 - Jan 2014
    Belgium
    The Software Factory is leading the way for companies & software teams that feel the need of the market to shift towards agile software development. They send out their teams to guide others with their practical knowledge, while helping Cegeka to become more and more agile as well. Thus eating their own dog-food so to speak. I'm very happy that I can be part of this powerful team.
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  • Cegeka
    Scrum Master
    Cegeka Jan 2011 - May 2012
    Antwerp Area, Belgium
    The software factory team in Argenta had become a bit too big for 1 scrummaster to handle, so I had the chance to help out. I find the project interesting, because as a customer I'm very motivated to help lift Argenta software to a higher level of quality. I like the KISS style of Argenta in their banking policy. Which got them through the recent crisis without much harm. And now with the Okapi project I get the chance to apply the same principles to their IT department. The technical environment now includes 3 java teams (on JSF, Spring & Hibernate) using Subversion & Hudson to build a frontend web application on top of an existing backend, that has quite a history. The chalenges of the project are that the IT department experiences a clash between the v-model of the backend and the scrum & XP practices of the new frontend. Okapi is one of the most important IT projects of Argenta as it will automate much of the heart of the company. So maintainability & extensibility are key factors. This not only means we have to focus on the quality of the code but also on the development, test & deployment process. The project is deployed in several fases, allowing the Argenta offices to gradually upgrade their process from batch-processing, taking about 24hrs to complete a cycle, to an online, best-time process that can complete such a cycle while the customer is still present. The Cegeka co-sourcing teams require a much higher degree of involvement & commitment than the people were used to. We, for example, require everyone to keep scope, budget & time in mind with every decision. While previously people would simply execute a job in isolation. To get there, we use 2-week iterations, standups, kanban-boards, 'writing on the wall' and intuitive graphs generated from a backlog in excel. And for that I find the Scrum/Kanban/Lean and XP practices are very helpful. And the support of Cegeka's Software Factory indispensable.
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  • Xp Days Benelux
    Helper
    Xp Days Benelux 2006 - 2012
    The Xp Days (www.XpDay.net) are a yearly event that bring together the leading people & companies in the agile field from the BeNeLux and beyond. Contrary to its name the conference covers the whole agile field and is built up with sessions drenched in daily experience. This event keeps me up to date with the latest developments in software & IT management systems. And it enables me to lend my expertise to co-organise and present sessions that help people to improve themselves in an ever evolving environment. Currently I play a small part in helping to organise the XP days. I take care of the daily Wake-Up sessions. The mini XPDay in the spring features a condensed version of the big event in november. PS: We're always looking for locations to organise the XpDays in Belgium or the Netherlands. So if you happen to know a good location for a 2-day event hosting 150-200 people in 4-5 rooms, let me know ;-).
  • Barco
    Senior Developer And Agile Coach
    Barco Jun 2010 - May 2011
    In their search for someone to help keep current applications up and running, the Barco team decided that they actually wanted to do things differently. Although the ASP technology is not my specialization, we both found I could still add value to the team. After investigating the current development process, we decided to group functionality in WCF services. Current applications will be moved behind a WCF interface, and new services will be build on top of the nHibernate framework. The components (Service, Core, Domain, Repo, ...) are designed to allow maximal decoupling. To improve the software development process, we started by moving from Sourcesafe to Subversion. A flexible and consistent solution structure was defined to reduce the size of the solutions, while avoiding the need to commit to make changes available to other solutions in development until they are all deployable. --> supported with solution templates, to reduce errors and learning curve. A build process was defined and automated (using TeamCity & MsBuild) to allow keeping the solutions linked, generating the versioning information and keeping track of what was deployed to which environment (TST, UAT, PRD). This also allows us to easily switch from the 'Next Release' mode to 'Fix' mode when required. --> a clear branching strategy reduces mistakes. The architecture (based for a large part on the best practices of DDD) is prepared to introduce IoC, automated (Unit, Integration and User Acceptance) -testing, automated deployment (including DB evolution scripts), and all those goodies, step by step in later phases. The introduction of the Resharper, TeamCity and Visual SVN add-ins to Visual studio was a big success. --> the enthusiasm of the team even spread to other teams. For me this project has been one of the most interesting ones mainly due to the eager coöperation of the team.
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  • Alcopa
    Senior Analist/Developer & Agile Coach
    Alcopa Dec 2008 - Apr 2010
    The eDas team @ Alcopa has started with the beta releases of dotNet. So they have quite a history on the platform. They're currently reaching the limits of the early design & architecture, and are gradually refactoring towards a modern structure. My experience with scrum, BDD and some frameworks and tools that support these methodologies (like the spring & nhibernate frameworks and the resharper tool) enable me to help moving towards this ambitious goal.The technical environment include VB.Net 3.5, Resharper 4.x, TFS (source control & scrum support), CruiseControl, NUint & MsTest, MsSql 2005, WCF, Sharepoint, setting up a scrum like release plan organized in 4 week sprints, setting up a Kanban board and central/shared war-room for the stand-ups. Introducing more efficient automated tests (AAA style), refactoring the Cruisecontrol scripts for easy maintenance. Introducing structured Refactoring mechanisms & Design Patterns.
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  • Cronos / Is4U
    Agile Coach
    Cronos / Is4U Oct 2008 - Nov 2008
    For 5 days I will work with the team and try to be a benefit for them :-)Technical environment include : C# 3.5, Resharper, Full Scrum approach.
  • Electrabel
    Gfut
    Electrabel Jan 2008 - Sep 2008
    Gfut is a tool intended for internal use in Electrabel.I was invited to the team because of my expertise with what is commonly called 'agile practices'. My main work is getting the team to colaborate efficiently.Technical environment include: C# 3.x, Resharper, CruiseControl, NUnit, setting up Kanban & 'writing on the wall', organising team building sessions.
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  • De Post
    Senior Developer (New Development, Adding Features, Maintenance)
    De Post Mar 2005 - Sep 2007
    PostStation is a very large set of applications that is used at each postal office to sell the postal products and follow up. A team of highly skilled people work hard to keep this backbone healthy and expand it to the ever-changing market. I worked in different parts of this team. And started to actively use some of the agile practices in a time when it was not evident to do so. We worked mainly with C# (2.0), VB6, VBscript, SQL, xml, pre .net soap communication with mshta. In maintenance i introduced Cruisecontrol & msbuild scripts to manage the releases. And i got to learn a lot about subversion when managing up to 8 parallel branches...
  • Sony
    Consultant (Automated Build)
    Sony Jul 2007 - Aug 2007
    At sony i got the chance to see a team at work actively using some agile practices. I was asked to improve their automated build. As the time was very short I created some tools they could use to better maintain their Nant scripts.
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  • Bai
    Senior Developer (Maintenance + New Features)
    Bai Jun 2004 - Mar 2005
    Working into existing ‘Com+ driven’ multi-tier banking application Debugging & RefactoringImplementing new features (iterative development, testing)Feedback to & reworking with architect (designs & documentation) GUI & Server components in VB6Data in MS SQL2000Large framework exists
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  • Protime
    Senior Developer (Adding Features)
    Protime Jan 2000 - Jan 2004
    I learned a lot in this highly dynamic team. We continually expanded a suite of products for time management.I moved from a junior to a senior profile because i was allowed to gradually take more and more responsibilties in the team. We used mainly VB6 on top of an MS-SQL and oracle DBsystems. Here I setup my first automated build and learned about refactoring.
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  • Alcatel - Space & Defense
    Junior Developer (Develop Map Product)
    Alcatel - Space & Defense Sep 1998 - Jan 2000
    The Map is the new front panel of a radio, used in the AWACS airplanes of boeing. I worked closely together with the hardware people to deliver the software from design over implementation & testing to delivery.It was a very interesting experience as i got to work with the product through all stages, mostly on my own because my mentor left the company 3 months after i started.

Olivier Costa Skills

Scrum Agile Methodologies Test Driven Development Coaching Team Building .net Agile Subversion Kanban C# Continuous Integration Software Project Management Xml Sql Out Of The Box Thinking Software Engineering Aikido Safe Pair Programming Ddd Agile Project Management Visual Studio Visual Management Leadership Development Continuous Improvement Kaizen Agile Testing Tfs Jira Deployment Uml Software Development Bdd Web Services Teamcity Nunit Continuous Delivery Zazen Spring Resharper Msbuild Nant Vb.net Nhibernate Html Sociocracy 3.0

Olivier Costa Education Details

  • Hogeschool Antwerpen
    Hogeschool Antwerpen
    Engineer'S Degree

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