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Gerrit Berkouwer

Projectmanager internet, Dutch Ministry of General Affairs

Biography

Gerrit Berkouwer

Gerrit C. Berkouwer is the Project Manager of Rijksoverheid.nl at the Dutch Ministry of General Affairs/Government Information Service, project Overheidscommunicatie Nieuwe Stijl (ONS), Dutch National Government.

Gerrit works on the internet since 1994 in different central government positions. Gerrit helped shape the Dutch ’Webguidelines quality model’ in 2004 by proving that all 125 quality requirements for websites were possible to implement by applying them to the corporate website of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.

He is now involved in realizing the next version, Dutch Webguidelines version 2, which will include the international WCAG2. Gerrit is project manager of the teams that realize a brand new ‘all-in-one’ corporate website for Dutch national government, Rijksoverheid.nl. The teams use SCRUM as framework, and in addition to the role as projectmanager Gerrit has the role of Product Owner (CSPO).

For this centralized website the project uses open standards and open source tools to reach its goals. Important keywords are quality, webstandards, teamwork, innovation and open data/open content.

In real life Gerrit loves photography, music, guitars, being himself and having fun.

Dutch Ministry of General Affairs

The Dutch Ministry of General Affairs includes the Prime Ministers Office, the Netherlands Government Information Service and the Office of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy.

Presentation

From 16 websites to 1: Using SCRUM, good people and web standards

Case: Dutch Ministry of General Affairs

Track: Web project management
Conference Day #1, Wednesday November 3rd, 10.30-12.00

www.Rijksoverheid.nl is the 'new' corporate website for all ministries in The Netherlands. It replaces 16 'old' websites.

Going from those 16 websites to one modern, user-friendly, business-focused website in a short amount of time presented a number of challenges:

  • How do you efficiently work with team-members from 13 departments and several external consultants in multiple?
  • How do you keep such a big project flexible?
  • How do you ensure quality?

Learn how using an agile approach ensured a successful web project.

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