Size matters and size comes in different flavors like for example value, cost and time. All dimensions correlate somehow into results depending on the metric you’d like measure. Stop! Do you even measure one of those dimensions on a regular base? Do you make them transparent? For whom? Colleagues, your boss, your team, your organization or … More Trust Is Adding Value To Your Daily Work
Last Thursday Frank Gollas wrote me an email about the idea using CO2 information for house automation. Somehow he was in contact with some people of the project of CO2 Signal discussing use cases. Since I am now working as a Product Owner for Deutsche Telekom Connected Home he thought it might be interesting for me … More Make your home smart by using electricity when carbon footprint is the lowest
Last Monday I had the pleasure to visit the agile Roundtable from the DBSystel with a great talk from Klaus Lepold at @DB_Skydeck. Beautiful view @DB_Skydeck #agileroundtable with @klausleopold pic.twitter.com/SgGaXHBvR5 — Patrick Sauerwein (@Virtual_Patrick) March 20, 2017 His talk was very inspiring especially for traditional companies with more hirarchies and project focus. His hypothesis and observation is … More Focus on Outcome and Value for Customers
More than ONLY three days offline After more than only 3 days without a mobile phone, since yesterday I am back online again. It comes with mixed feelings and some insights I’d like to share – nothing special only some of my experiences and insights during this time. Simon Sinek about Millenials and technology usage I feel addicted to … More The luxury of being offline – insights and learnings without dopamin
Marty Cagan inspired me to write two cents about my view of “beyond lean and agile“. I don’t have the experience like Marty, only 10 years in product management and 3 years as a product owner. Marty also pointed out how important the understanding of product managers vs product owners really is and how essential they are for building good products. Lean … More Beyond #Lean and #Agile
The open gilded cage A colleague of mine @frankgollas inspired my working situation at Matrix42 in a perfect illustration: the open gilded cage. The door is open free to leave or stay. Image: Cover of “Bird in a Gilded Cage: A Suffragette Story” by Susan Griffin I am working at Matrix42 now since April 2006 and have … More Journey to be continued…
Last Tuesday we offered an exclusive round table for Matrix42 customers working with Empirum in our headquarter in Frankfurt. We initially invited all existing customers registered at the Matrix42 Marketplace at least subscribed products from the client management, compliance or service management category. Interested customers then needed to apply for this exclusive workshop with the senior management … More Impression of the exclusive Matrix42 Customer Round Table 2016
Since February 3rd 2016, we now shipped up to 30 releases with the Matrix42 Bootimage Upgrade To EPE 4 to ensure OS installations with the latest and greatest hardware with Intel Skylake architectures. The EPE releases click like clockwork not because of challenges with the EPE, but due to the reorganisation in production to agility. … More Matrix42 EPE 4 click like clockwork – 30 releases in 2016
My impressions of the Matrix42 Customer Day 2016 in Hamburg … More Impressions of the Matrix42 Customer Day 2016 in Hamburg
Today I read an older blogpost from Benedict Evans and I am so impressed, that I’d like to share it within my blog. It is a must read from my perspective for all people working in the IT today and builing software. Benedict Evans was painting a market picture in the end of 2015 of IT … More [Repost] 16 Mobile Theses
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