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Growing interest in Scrum training

On January 22, Xebia welcomed the 1000th Scrum student. During the ScrumMaster training, Ron Eringa of Philips Healthcare received a cheque for an Agile Management Workshop and a rugby ball signed by Scrum guru Jeff Sutherland to celebrate this event.

The ScrumMaster training, a role within development teams that use the Agile methodology, is given six to eight times a year in cooperation with Jeff Sutherland. This training is very successfull, as it offers a good combination of theory and practice combined with a a high level of quality. Xebia also gives Product Owner and Team Member training sessions, thus offering a complete portfolio of Scrum training. Xebia identifies a growing interest in its training portfolio.

Xebia foresees a considerable increase in the use of Scala in 2010. Large technology corporations like LinkedIn and Twitter, but also a more traditional company like Siemens, are increasingly using Scala on a Java platform. They have adopted Scala technology and apply it broadly. The Scala language is 100% compatible with Java and underlying middle ware. Reutilization of existing Java software and  middle ware, without the need to adapt anything, is guaranteed. Therefore only a minimal investment is required.

Urs Peter, senior consultant at Xebia says: "More and more companies are looking for a simple and concise solutions. Scala not only offers them an improvement of productivity. The use of Scala is also cost effective as companies can still use their existing middle ware and infrastructure. As Scala is entirely compatible with Java, existing Java components, solutions and knowledge can be re utilized. For the implementation of Scala, an investment in knowledge of the language is the only thing needed. And this investment is relatively small, as developers do not need to command all new possibilities of the language, like functional programming. They can apply the knowledge successively, without any loss of quality. Scala enables developers to stay very close to the business logic and thus omit various meta blocks. This results in neatness and a structure that is easy to maintain. Scala is a powerful and effective language and the low threshold for switching to it makes it very attractive for companies to develop software in a more effective and efficient way."

Xebia is the winner of the High Growth Awards 2009 in the central region.

A quality score of 25.50 combined with a growth percentage of 67% earned the company a first place in this year's edition.

Nominees for the yearly High Growth Awards are Dutch companies that have realised a substantial sales growth over the last three years. Port4Growth, initiator of the Awards, reviews applications not only on numbers, but the quality of the realised growth is most important factor in the ranking process.

On September 23, Deloitte announced the nominees for the 2009 edition of their Fast50 awards. Xebia is once again one of the nominees.