Blog

Thinking out loud on organisational development, leadership, and what change actually requires.

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Product Tools AI

Overview over AI-powered tools for PMs

An overview of AI tools and helper applications organised across key categories — from text creation and research to engineering and marketing. Updated regularly as the landscape evolves.

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Coaching Organisation Books Systems Thinking

Books and Resources — Coaching Organisations

A curated reading list on how to effectively coach people and organisations — with a particular focus on modern systems theory grounded in Luhmann's social systems theory. Mostly German-language titles, with English additions where available.

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Coaching Leadership Books

The Responsibility Process — Book Review

Chris Avery's "The Responsibility Process" offers a plausible and usable understanding of how people respond when things go wrong — and how awareness of these patterns enables genuine freedom, power, and choice.

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Agile Leadership Books

Books and Resources — Agile and Leadership

A regularly updated reading list covering agile mindset resources, leadership books, and German-language titles — curated from years of practice in product management and organisational development.

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Coaching Agile Organisation Leadership

Make Change Powerful with Agile Coaches

Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches are often limited to direct team support, yet they can deliver far greater organisational value. This post explores how to unlock that potential — through clearer mandates, better placement, and the right level of experience.

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Agile Product Scrum

What's new? The Scrum Guide Update 2020

The Scrum Guide was updated in November 2020. Beyond the shorter format and cleaner language, several substantive changes shift how Scrum defines teams, goals, commitments, and roles.

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Product Books Innovation

Testing Business Ideas (Book Review)

Many companies in the digital space fail due to missing mechanisms for continuous innovation. Osterwalder's "Testing Business Ideas" provides a comprehensive toolbox to test every hypothesis in a structured way.

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Agile Product Leadership

The Product Owner Checklist

A 10-point checklist exploring characteristics essential for effective product ownership — and a litmus test to distinguish genuine agile practice from cargo-cult setups.

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Agile Product Leadership

Building digital Products

My personal philosophy for creating digital products: holistic problem-solving, team-centred value creation, iterative development, and continuous improvement.

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New Work Organisation Tools

Das New-Work-Quartett

Sehr schöne Idee unserer Kolleg:innen von quäntchen + glück: 8 Jahre Erfahrung und Selbstexperiment im Bereich New Work in einem spielerischen Quartett-Kartenspiel.

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