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He continues to work Agile, including for Schiphol Airport, develops at a rapid pace and now likes to work using Value Driven Portfolio Management (VDPM). What he finds most important in this?     <a href=\"https:\/\/scrumacademy.nl\/blog\/erik-bras-over-schiphol-vdpm-en-onbewust-agile-zijn\/\">You&#8217;ll read about that in this interview.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19453","trainer","type-trainer","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Erik Bras - Scrum Academy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scrumacademy.nl\/en\/our-people\/erik-bras\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Erik Bras - Scrum Academy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Erik is convinced that in order for organizations to become truly customer- and value-focused, they must also change at the management and organizational level. 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