In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and connect with Mr. Rik Marselis who is the Principal Quality Consultant of Sogeti Nederland B.V and the Chairman of TMAP Special Interest Group who is based out of Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands

a) Talks about the inception of his journey in the IT industry.

b) Mentions about his roles and responsibilities as the Principal Quality Consultant at Sogeti Nederland B.V.

c) Shares his experience of starting out as a Junior COBOL Programmer exactly 45 years ago and also working with the IBM 8100 computer even before the introduction of personal computers, to the listeners around the world.

d) In-depth, mentions about the backstory that led to the creation of an approach by him and his colleagues similar to today's Agile methodology and, talks about his immediate reaction when the Agile methodology was actually coined and used on a commercial note.

e) Gives an insight into being the Chairman of TMAP Special Interest Group for TMAP and the World of Quality Engineering.

f) His take on the importance of Quality Engineering and Testing for the DevOps culture.

g) Talks about his drive and inspiration that pursued him towards public speaking and shares few interesting success stories that he has experienced in his IT journey.