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Make IT So
About us · Team

A small agency with two partners and a growing team.

At Make IT So you know who's working on your project. You don't get anonymous profiles or changing names. Two partners carry the name, and around them works a growing team we've worked with for years.

Partners
Jan Festjens + Walter Swaenepoel
Supported by
A growing team
For the client
One point of contact who knows your project
01 · The two partners

Jan and Walter complement each other instead of copying each other.

Click through for each partner's full story.

Jan Festjens, partner at Make IT So

Jan Festjens

Programme manager · Partner

15+ years of programme management at companies including Beeple, Cloudalize, Bebat and SPG Dry Cooling. Analytical and calm: he first gets sharp on what's really being asked before anything gets built.

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Walter Swaenepoel, partner at Make IT So

Walter Swaenepoel

Programme manager · Partner

20+ years of Business & IT management, with teams of up to 85 people. He knows complex transformations where both the organisation and the technology shift, and the politics that come with them.

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02 · Permanent team member

Maarten keeps the whole thing coherent.

Alongside the two partners we work with a permanent team that knows our DNA. Maarten is one of its regular faces.

Maarten De Lee, product manager and Scrum Master at Make IT So

Maarten De Lee

Product Manager · Scrum Master · CISO

Product manager and Scrum Master, with more than thirteen years in agile product environments. He keeps teams and stakeholders aligned, even when a project gets complex, and as CISO helps guard security.

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03 · The team around us

We scale up when it's needed, without losing the name.

For each project we look at what's needed and scale with our growing team. This is how we do it, and this is what we deliberately don't do.

Yes

Our team, which we've worked with for years and which breathes our DNA.

No

Anonymous profiles hired through a platform that we've never spoken to ourselves.

Yes

One single point of contact who, through the knowledge and experience of the rest of the team, puts the whole team's multidisciplinary experience at your disposal.

No

A separate contact for every discipline that you have to bring together yourself.

Yes

One point of contact who knows your project from start to finish.

No

Changing contacts who have to get up to speed again every time.

Yes

Scaling up and down with the phase of your project.

No

A large fixed team you pay for whether there's work or not.

Call us for half an hour. You'll speak to one of the partners straight away.

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