Jan de Vries is a senior business IT consultant and a trusted advisor in the fields of requirements engineering, business information management, application management and DevOps. He is a DevOps, BiSL, ASL, ITIL, ISM, FSM and USM trainer and convenor of the Enterprise DevOps working group that does research on large scale deployment of DevOps in organisations. He founded Blue Ocean Recon to facilitate the development of Blue Oceans and Lean Startups.