Happy New Year! 🎉🥳🍀 I’d like to reflect about a post by Shreyas from last year for 2026 that got my attention: You can keep chasing 100s of frameworks, mental models, tactics, playbooks, success stories, tools, and templates throughout your career, and yet the fundamental capability that will unleash your product mastery across domains and … More Self-Awareness: The Product Skill Nobody Teaches
2025 was another year of intense learning. It challenged how I view collaboration, my European and German identity, and the fragile foundation upon which our digital society is built. The Culture Map Moment It happened during our Commerce offsite. We sat together as a team, filling out the Culture Map framework, plotting our communication styles, … More Finding Ground: Identity and Values in 2025
As someone who’s become a regular attendee of Product at Heart in Hamburg, I find myself returning year after year for the same compelling reasons: deepening my product management knowledge, staying current with industry trends, and connecting with like-minded people who share the same passion for building great products. This year’s conference once again delivered … More Product at Heart 2025: My Key Takeaways from Hamburg Conference
Something kind and beautiful happened to us during our vacation. We were traveling by train and had different seats reserved. It was our first time using the Spanish train service, and I wasn’t familiar with how to make seat reservations on the payment machine. Just before the journey began, a woman came by claiming her … More Reflections About the Power of Kindness and Giving
TL;DR The Leadership forum was worth participating, several important lessons emerged: Continue reading for more details The day started with a lunch at the Rialto restaurant, which I would recommend anyhow if you’re going to a trip to Hamburg. Petra curated the seats for the attendees and it was the first opportunity to have a … More Leadership Forum – Product at Heart 2023 #productatheart ❤️
Finally, after three years, MTP Hamburg open the gates for the first physical event after the pandemic. And I couldn’t agree more that meeting in person still is a thing! 🤩 So I’d like to start with the last talk and prompt by Christina Wodtke where she said: Share everything you learn. Be vulnerable. Christina … More My summary and learning of Mind The Product 2022 Hamburg #mtpEngage @MTPEngageHH
My personal experiences and highlights of #MTPEngage I’d like to write down and share my thoughts about the 3rd edition of #MTPEngage in Hamburg. The conference itself was split into three days of learning and inspiration: May 22nd Leadership day (by invitation only) + movie documentary May 23rd Workshop day + product blind dinners May … More My Personal Impressions and Views of the 3rd Edition #MTPEngage in Hamburg 2019
Why learning is so important? The biggest waste in software development: building the wrong thing! Marty Cagan was right: half of the time or 50% the product manager is wrong with his ideas. It’s not about keeping everybody busy, it’s learning what’s the right thing. Focus your attention on that. The Proven Learning Process Learning … More Focus on Learning, Context and Empowerment
Turning Point Vacation – time to reflect about life, purpose, goals, methods and experiences. So many things happened and run through my mind the last months, that I wasn’t able to structure them and find enough time to write them down. I heavily use my journal(s) to write down thoughts and reflect about them as … More Turning Point and Lean Principles
TL;TR Use roadmaps to discuss scope as objectives and outcomes you’d like to achieve. Don’t use roadmaps to write down features or track output. Work with themes: problems, needs and objectives. Don’t use dates in roadmaps. Use features and experiements as possible customer solutions and only track them in a plan, if really needed. Empower … More Roadmaps, Expectations and Empowerment
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