Marco Abis

Current

Managing Director at Sourcesense UK
Speaker at Conferences & Events

Past

Global PMO Lead at ThoughtWorks
Senior Project Manager at ThoughtWorks
Owner at Agility SPI :: Software Process Improvement

Co-founder and CTO at OSWay S.r.l.
Founder at Programmazione.it
Senior Software Engineer & Team Leader at TC Sistema S.p.A.
Software Developer at Various

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Education

Liceo Scientifico Luigi Cremona
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Marco Abis’s Summary

Worked for many years as a consultant in software development & project management in Italy & Switzerland

Founded the first and biggest Italian developers web site http://www.programmazione.it in 1999.

Founded an ICT company in 2000 (Chief Technology Officer and Board member), then sold 51% to an Italian public company to raise funds and develop products.

Founded Agility SPI :: Software Process Improvement in 2003. Consultancy aiming to help other companies improve their software development process through the adoption of Agile and Lean principles and practices.

Organised the first European ScrumMaster Certification class with Ken Schwaber in 2003 (I'm a Certified ScrumMaster)

Founder of the Italian Agile Movement (http://www.agilemovement.it), the official Italian Agile User Group (listed in the Agile Alliance User Group directory).

Conference chair of the Italian Agile Day (http://www.agileday.it 2004-2005-2006-2007-2008)

Elected member of the Agile Alliance Board of Directors (2003-2004-2005)

Programme Committee member of events like XP2004, XP2005, XP2006, XP2007, XP Days Germany 2005, XPDay London 2007.

Currently serve Sourcesense Europe as Managing Director Sourcesense UK.

Marco Abis’s Specialties:

Process Improvement;
Agile and Lean tailoring, Scrum in place (Certified ScrumMaster), eXtreme Programming coach, Feature Driven Development in place;
ProjectRescue, Sheer On-going Leadership;
Process Consulting;
Project Consulting/Mentoring;
Team Building;

Sound knowledge and past experiences also in: C/C++, Kylix/Delphi, Java, C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET, PHP & Python, Django, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Windows, Linux, PocketPC, PalmOS, XML, Javascript, HTML, etc, etc...;

Marco Abis’s Experience

Managing Director

Sourcesense UK

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2009 — Present (11 months)

Managing the UK office of Sourcesense Europe. Sourcesense is a European Open Source, Agile systems integrator providing consultancy, support and services around key Open Source technologies and Agile development and has offices in Italy, UK and Netherlands
Speaker

Conferences & Events

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2000 — Present (9 years 5 months)

Speaker: Free Open Day for Managers on Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile Methods (Rome & Milan)

Speaker: Agile.NET workshop – Microsoft Italy

Speaker: Agile Techniques for Software Process Improvement - First Italian AICA Forum

Speaker: Architecture & Management workshop – Microsoft Italy

Speaker: Software Development Processes and Methodologies – Borland Italy (Milan & Rome)

Co-teacher: Software Engineering course, University of Milan
Global PMO Lead

ThoughtWorks

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2008 — March 2009 (1 year )

As a member of the Global Management Team I'm responsible for making the GMT's meetings and other interactions successful, and for driving or participating in key global initiatives.
Senior Project Manager

ThoughtWorks

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

October 2005 — August 2008 (2 years 11 months)

Management and leadership from inception to delivery of high business valued, high quality object oriented projects and the integration of disparate systems.
Building, coordination, coaching and enablement of small to large teams (3 to 40+ people) often in a distributed fashion (particularly UK and India)
Owner

Agility SPI :: Software Process Improvement

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 6 months)

The Agility SPI (Software Process Improvement) mission is to assist our customers/partners leading them to projects success providing the technical and business leadership. We work with you through mentorship, skill development and sheer on-going leadership. Our goal isn't the simple counseling or training but to work with you side by side to give you the competitive advantage of our knowledge and experience; transferring you our know-how so that you can be successful today, tomorrow and ever with and above all without us.
Co-founder and CTO

OSWay S.r.l.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2000 — February 2004 (3 years 6 months)

I was founder, director, and Chief Technology Officer of OSWay S.R.L., a software house in the Gruppo TC Sistema S.p.A
Founder

Programmazione.it

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years )
Senior Software Engineer & Team Leader

TC Sistema S.p.A.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Initially as a senior software engineer on Delphi, C++ and Java projects and then as Team Leader in the development of a Knowledge Management System product used by customers all around Europe.
Software Developer

Various

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1995 — September 1999 (4 years 9 months)

Worked as a freelance software developer on many different projects including:

- industrial automation system for fuel pumps (Turbo C++, Win32)
- three tier system for financial promoters management (Delphi/C++, COM/DCOM, Oracle, WinNT)