Strobbo: From Startup to Scaling Slowdown and Returning to Business Agility
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Description
This talk takes you inside the real-life struggles, surprises, and successes of Strobbo’s journey—from a fast-moving startup, through the slowdown that came with rapid scaling, and onto the road back to business agility. Without the means for a full LeSS flip, we applied a Lean Improvement Kata and many of the principles behind LeSS to find our way back, while developing our own roadmap approach that drives focus for the team, keeps us centered on real results, and helps us control our clock. Expect honest lessons, concrete experiments, and plenty of real-life pictures from the path between startup speed and sustainable agility.
Bio
Michael Voorhaen is a Product Manager at Protime, responsible for the Protime Planning solution and the product Strobbo. He works with multiple cross-functional teams in a LeSS-inspired setup, using a single shared backlog and aligning around common goals to maximize learning and impact across a team-of-teams structure.
With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Antwerp, Michael’s career has evolved from hands-on development to strategic product leadership. This background enables him to bridge deep technical understanding with a strong focus on enabling agility at scale.
He holds certifications in Professional Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Facilitation, Designing Agile Organizations, and is both a LeSS Practitioner and Org Topologies Champion. He uses these frameworks to guide teams and organizations toward greater adaptability, reduced dependencies, and improved customer outcomes.
Michael’s current focus is on growing organizational agility by fostering self-managing teams, creating transparency, and building the structural foundations that support continuous improvement.