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Rob Akershoek

Rob Akershoek

IT Management Architect / Chair of the IT4IT Forum (within The Open Group)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Rob Akershoek is senior IT management architect at DXC and chair of the IT4IT Forum within The Open Group. He is leading the development of The Open Group DevOps standard as part of the IT4IT Forum. He helps IT organizations to transform and become a more lean and agile service provider, ready to manage the new digital ecosystem consisting of a hybrid cloud environment provided by a multi-vendor sourcing landscape. He is architecting the new IT organization combing practices and concepts such as (Scaled) Agile development, DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Security Management with established IT service management methodologies. He assists IT organizations in their IT automation journey covering the entire IT value chain including portfolio management, the DevOps toolchain including CI/CD, test management, monitoring and event management, risk and security management, ITSM, CMDB, cloud orchestration, etc. He also assists organizations to leverage new IT management technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, ChatBots, Operational data analytics and self-service portals.

He has been involved in developing the IT automation blueprint and DevOps journeys at organizations such as Shell, ING, ABN AMRO, Rabobank, NN Group, Vodafone and Siemens. Rob Akershoek is author of numerous articles and author the IT4IT management guide (managing the business of IT).

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • DevOps
  • Value Stream Management
  • IT Service Management
  • Enterprise Service Management
  • Scaling Agile and DevOps
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Observability
  • ITSM
  • Scrum
  • SRE
  • IT4IT
  • Software Engineering
  • CICD Pipeline
  • ITIL
  • Agile Development
  • Lean Portfolio Management
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • IT Operating Models
  • Product Management
  • DevSecOps
  • product driven

Rob Akershoek

IT Management Architect / Chair of the IT4IT Forum (within The Open Group)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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