Marcel de Vries 

Meet Marcel de Vries, trainer at Xebia Academy. Marcel is a certified Microsoft trainer and gives training such as Continuous Delivery courses on behalf of Xebia.

Marcel spends most of his time helping organizations build Enterprise Applications and implementing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices and tooling. 

Marcel works for a new startup company called Xpirit that provides premium consulting services on ALM, Cloud, enterprise mobility and Security. His job title there is Chief Technical Manager (CTO). As CTO Marcel spends most of his time looking at how new emerging technologies can help organizations build better quality software and do this more productively. 

Marcel has a passion for learning new technologies and teaching the things he learned on the way when applying technology to solve business problems. And works as a consultant in the field of Application Lifecycle Management, Cloud application architectures and Cross platform Enterprise Mobile app development. 

He writes for websites and magazines like MSDN, The Architecture journal and local magazines like SDN Magazine. Marcel frequently speaks at industry conferences like Microsoft TechDays, Visual Studio Live!, Microsoft Tech Ed and local user group events. And he also spends a lot of time teaching topics like Visual Studio ALM, Windows Workflow Foundation, Xamarin Mobile app development and Web development. 

In his spare time, he is also an author of online courses at Pluralsight. 

Marcel is awarded by Microsoft the Microsoft ALM MVP award and is also a MicrosoftRegional Director. 

Upcoming courses

Certified LeSS Practitioner training

Master the art of scaling Scrum with our Certified LeSS Practitioner training and lead multiple teams with the LeSS framework.

Bas Vodde

Agile Scaling
LeSS
3 days
In Person

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2 Jul, 2025

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€2625

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Power BI in a Day

Learn how to turn your data sources into immersive visuals using Microsoft Power BI.

Lysanne van Beek

Data Analytics
Data Visualization
Microsoft
PowerBI
1 day
In Person

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7 Jul, 2025

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€725

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Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills (PSPBMS)

The Product Backlog is an emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product. It is the single source of work undertaken by the Scrum Team.

Sander Dur

Agile
Product Owner
Scrum
Scrum Master
Scrum.org
1 day
In Person

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8 Jul, 2025

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€875

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Advanced Power BI – DAX and Data Modeling

This training for experienced Power BI users will increase your knowledge of DAX and Data Modeling.

Data Analytics
Microsoft
PowerBI
2 days
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7 – 8 Aug, 2025

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Introduction to Generative AI

Get a non-technical introduction to the field of Generative AI and learn best practices when using Generative AI tools.

Juan Venegas

Cloud
1 day
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11 Aug, 2025

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€507

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