200 Updates a Year: How Chinese OEMs Are Streamlining Their Architecture
The software's design and a supply chain within a four-hour radius explain the pace at which Chinese OEMs operate.
From Mercedes to NIO: What Defines Modern Engineering Toolchains
Dr. Yousef Hooshmand has worked in both the German and Chinese automotive sectors and shares his perspective.
Hendrik Dahmke: Product Velocity Requires a Shared Understanding
In this guest post, Hendrik Dahmke examines Product Velocity from the perspective of a systems engineer.
Startups and Systems Engineering: The Record That Misses the Mark
In the first half of 2026, more startups were founded in Germany than ever before. We need to put that into perspective.
- Agilität | Automotive | Interview | Menschen
Joe Justice: Conway’s Law, Modules, and Experiments (Part 2)
In this interview, Joe Justice explains the importance of the module and a low-risk way to try out Extreme Hardware (Part 2)
Why Functional Chains Are Not Capability Threads
Drawing on Robin Yeman’s keynote address at the MBSE Summit, this article explains capability threads and how integration bottlenecks arise despite MBSE.
Enterprise Architecture Using the TOGAF Standard: Bureaucracy or a Catalyst for Transformation?
An Interview with Christopher Schulz: When Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF Actually Make an Organization Faster.
- Agilität | Automotive | Interview | Menschen
Joe Justice: Hardware Can Get Faster (Part 1)
In this interview, Joe Justice explains how hardware development can be accelerated and why so few companies are able to do it. (Part 1)
Germany doesn't have a housing problem. Germany has a flow problem.
Product Velocity can also be applied to topics outside of product development, such as housing in Germany.
Not the engineers: when the process model becomes a bottleneck
It's not the engineers who make the difference between slow and fast companies—the process model is the bottleneck!
China Speed and the crisis of traditional systems engineering
Yuchao Luo provides insights into Chinese automotive development, where values, competition and policy lead to successful products.
Why modern product development remains slow
Martin Eigner, Joachim Pfeffer, and Michael Jastram will discuss why modern product development remains slow in a webinar.
