Scrumme with fresh eyes to the disaster project Zeesluis IJmuiden

Jaap Blokland does not want to talk about it. The former project manager no longer works at OpenIJ, the construction consortium of BAM and VolkerWessels, which has to close the sea at IJmuiden. "I do not know anything about the project," says the project manager of VolkerInfra. What he does not mean, is that it was removed from the project after the mega-design mistake that occurred in the second half of 2017.

Rob van Wingerden, chairman of BAM's board of directors, said in December 2017 that the met "To make sure new eyes." Sick was the project's BAM CEO. The worst-case decline of the project. "If you have to redo the design in the middle of the project, it's never good.If you disrupt the process, it's not good."

On Tuesday, the construction consortium announced that the losses on the project had risen from 600 million euros to 200 million euros. Main cause: end date has been postponed by 27 months

Four new men on the project Zeesluis

OpenIJ has put four new men on the project in October 2017, according to data from the Chamber of Commerce. Wilbert Boon and Jan Willem Bruining of BAM Infra; Jan Jalving, Director of Integral Projects at Van Hattum and Blankevoort (a subsidiary of VolkerWessels); and John van Dongen from Volkerinfra

Wilfrith van der Meer, director of Van Hattum and Blankevoort and Jan Prins of BAM Infra have been present since the end of 2015, the beginning of the project. Martijn Smitt (formerly BAM Infra) is no longer connected to the project, as is Blokland. He has not worked for BAM Infra since May. Smitt said that he had an accident in February 2017 that he is rehabilitating. While he was still working on the project, there was still no dirt in the air at IJmuiden. Smitt's place on the project was taken over by Wilbert Boon and Jan Prins of BAM Infra.

This week, it was announced that the planning of OpenIJ was much too optimistic. Since January of this year, planning for part of the project, the technical facilities, has been overseen by "Scrum Master and Agile Coach" Rob Verwer. Scrumming, known by the yellow post-its, is a way of planning that promises you to do twice as much in half the time. If scrumming helped Verwer can not say of the project organization.