Wilmar Hofstra
Agile Business and IT Analyst,
Databalans Consultancy
databalans.nl
wilmar.hofstra@databalans.nl
0031614514583
About
Hi, nice to meet you. I'm an energetic IT and business consultant, passionate about engineering and delivering critical business IT solutions, with extensive experience in doing so.I aim to empower end-users by providing the tools they need to be successful, focusing on problem-revealing, problem-solving, getting things done, and fast delivery. At the team and organizational levels, I can organize and inspire people, applying triage where needed, often going beyond the call of duty.I'm dedicated to data-driven solutions, leveraging innovative cloud CI/CD computing technologies, and utilizing the Scrum framework to achieve this.I love setting the pace and pointing north!
Let's go!
Active projects
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Working experience
I have a wide working experience in various industries, both commercial and government. From small company departments up to enterprise level with tens of thousands of end-users, all with their own challenges. These experiences make it easy for me to quickly understand new challenges.My working experience range from managing straightforward projects, and the more exploratory projects in which it was possible to use an iterative proces for a fit-for-purpose solution. It's in my nature to generate results and succeed!
Looking for inspiration?
In my field of work, many things are happening. Below, you will find a list of inspirations related to the IT workplace, which I sometimes refer to.
Please read the Scrumguide by Jeff Sutherland & Ken Schweber, the creators of Scrum; Scrum is an empirical process, where decisions are based on observation, experience and experimentation. Scrum has three pillars: transparency, inspection and adaptation. This supports the concept of working iteratively.
While you are at it, also enlighten yourself with the Agile Manifesto
Bruce Tuckman forming–storming–norming–performing
William Deming PDCA-circle Bureau Tromp.
Diffusion of Innovations by Everett Rogers, and learn how to cross the chasm
Read about Gunther Verheyen and his great Scrum - A Pocket Guide series.
Geert Hofstede The 6-D model of national culture. Try it yourself at Hofstede Insights
ChatGPT is a chatbot, developed by OpenAI, that uses GPT-3 to generate responses to user inputs (prompts), allowing users to have conversational interactions with the model. Try it yourself at chat.openai.com (registration required). The model updated to GPT-4, and recently to GPT-4o (omni).
Also try the impressive new Chinese R1 chatbot from Deepseek
See Andrej Karpathy regarding AGI; YouTube - Lex Fridman Podcast
Ben Tiggelaar 'Veel mensen vinden dat hun teamleider er niet al te veel van bakt. Hoe komt dat?' NRC 2-4-2022
Daniel H. Pink The Puzzle of motivation (See on TED)
Mturk Amazon Mechanical Turk. Access a global, on-demand, 24x7 workforce on https://www.mturk.com/
Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow. System 1 and System 2
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers. The photograph's significance has been captured by Carl Sagan and read by Elon Musk in the Lex Fridman AI Podcast.
Read about AI revolution at Wait but why post - Artificial Intelligence Revolution by Tim Burton.
Business writing is about clarity and persuasion, get inspired with these easy tips of The Day You Became A Better Writer at the Dilbert blog by Scott Adams
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Do you have troublesome IT?I can help!
Don't hesitate to reach out—drop me an email today. Thank you!