Marcel Wijkstra

Background

About Marcel Wijkstra

I favor simplicity and elegance over complex and hard-to-maintain solutions. The product I work on must have social responsibility in its DNA, I need to work on User Stories that contribute to a greener, more social, safer, healthier planet. I am passionate about Agile software development where we can quickly change course to best serve the customer, with thin, vertically sliced Stories. I am proud of having been at the forefront of the transition from Waterfall to Scrum at Irdeto which started back in 2008. Got cerfified as Scrum Master by Jeff Sutherland in 2010. Became Certified Scrum Product Owner in 2022. As a developer, the Unmanaged C++ and t-SQL code I write is always human readable. Consistency of interfaces and code maintainability is more important to me than using the latest technology, expecially for a legacy product with many authors. As a Product Owner, I had one foot in the code and the other in the backlog. I aspire true ownership where I can serve the customer from a deep understanding of my product. Above all, I want to help other people.