Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) offers a unique opportunity for IT professionals who have experience with agile working. What sets EUR apart is the opportunity to actively contribute to how agile is shaped. Because agile working is still in an early stage here, there are challenges, but especially opportunities to influence how your work is organized.
Agile working is one of the spearheads within the IT department. This is supported by an extensive development budget, with which employees can follow training and courses to deepen their knowledge of agile methodologies. This creates a shared language and understanding within teams. A clear roadmap also helps to realise concrete goals per quarter.
The benefits of agile in a complex academic world
Universities are complex organisations with diverse stakeholders and challenging issues. Agile methodologies help to bring structure to this complexity. Think of setting priorities, streamlining portfolio management, and strengthening autonomy within teams. All of this makes it possible to collaborate more effectively and to set clear expectations.
Growing collaboration between teams
Collaboration within the EUR IT department is developing rapidly. Priorities are set together with stakeholders through PI planning and big room sessions. Multidisciplinary teams ensure the right expertise to deliver value for the university.
Innovation plays a central role in agile working at EUR; continuous improvement is the norm, both for processes and for individual team members. Agile essentially means constantly iterating and innovating, applying lessons from internal and external developments.
Effectiveness is measured regularly. Teams will look back on their performance and identify where they can improve. At the organisational level, agile provides insight into how teams function and how they differ from each other, leading to a shared vision on areas for improvement.
Challenges
The biggest challenge lies in the broad change that is needed within the complex structure of EUR. New working methods require adjustments at all levels: faculties, services, teams and managers.
Scrum
Our teams work with biweekly sprints, in which planning, daily stand-ups, refinements and retrospectives are fixed components. This structure creates transparency, teams can quickly respond to changes and consistently deliver valuable work to stakeholders.
Something for you?
Working at EUR means contributing to an environment that is constantly developing. If you are looking for a place where your input can make a difference and where agile working is truly applied, EUR offers a challenging and inspiring workplace. Here we build together on a more effective, flexible and inclusive working environment. New team members are actively supported in their onboarding, whereby practical experience is combined with training. Diversity and inclusion are self-evident: different perspectives within teams ensure better decision-making and innovation.
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