Ana Paula Valente Pereira
Ana Pereira has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Thoughout these years she founded several companies in this area: WhatEverSoft – the first Sun Authorized Java Center established in Portugal, Whatever Consulting Group – a firm that provides training and coaching services in Lean, Agile and Open Innovation and, more recently, LeanDo Technologies – a company committed to cutting waste in software delivery, by following their unique methodology, that blends lean and agile principles.
As a strong believer in Open Innovation she is also a committer in the Eclipse Process Framework – an open source project providing content on agile practices and processes for software development.
She holds an MSc in computer science from IST-Lisbon and has several papers on agile and innovation management published in the Cutter It Journal and presented in agile international conferences.
