Xebia Articles

Performance meetings are critical to ensuring that individuals, teams, and departments in Agile organizations realize their ambitions and goals, whether these are outcome-related or concern organizational development. Here’s how to go about them.

The Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019 champions social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities and empowers them through sport. Described as the world's largest humanitarian sporting event, Xebia contributed by developing a special, predictive data analytics tool that could be used to improve the event and further "put people first." 

Over the next year, Instruqt will be at major Google conferences around the world. Here’s how the collaboration came about.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly captured the imagination of businesses around the globe with bold promises of accelerating top-line revenue growth and increasing the bottom-line. As a result, companies are investing a lot of time and money in developing their data science and AI capabilities.

hWhen you visit Xebia, there's a bit of magic happening behind the curtain. That's Xebia's hospitality team, hard at work behind the scenes, to ensure everyone feels comfortable and at home there. 

Bold, ambitious, modern and high tech—that’s how Bart Wetselaar and his team at Xccelerated describe the company that grew out of Xebia. “We’re a healthy mix between fun and serious, leaning just a bit more towards the serious side,” Bart smiles. But how does this ambitious, friendly, and fun-loving business empower young IT professionals to take their careers even further? Let’s let them tell the story.

In Agile transformations, it's common to start small with a couple of pilot development teams to gain some experience before implementing larger organizational changes. While sensible on the surface, it’s a recipe for disaster because it threatens the entire transformation, as well as the organization’s security.

During a busy day at the Xebia Hilversum office, Ellen Hartog and Hans Lindhout take a moment out to sit down together in the dining lounge to share a conversation over a cup of coffee. Although their roles and backgrounds are very different, both are at an age where they have a clear understanding of who they are and what’s important to them— balance and freedom. They’ve found both at Xebia.

“Sincerity and transparency are my mottoes.”—Andrew de la Haije, CEO Xebia Consultancy Services

Riccardo Corradin, a web development consultant and passionate advocate of test-driven-development (TDD), wakes up at 6:10 every morning and begins his day by drinking two glasses of water and doing twenty push-ups. For breakfast, he eats a bowl of fruit, yogurt, and Cruseli. He also adds plenty of sugar, explaining, "I don't feel like eating my breakfast with a sour face." After showering and getting dressed, he takes care of his papa tasks—getting his children, ages one and three, up and ready for daycare. Then he packs his lunch (a sandwich made with fresh, home-baked bread), before heading off to his client's office in Amsterdam.  "It's important to enjoy your lunch, so I do my best to make something great out of it every day," he says.