Hendrik Dahmke: Product Velocity Requires a Shared Understanding
In this guest post, Hendrik Dahmke examines Product Velocity from the perspective of a systems engineer.
Making decisions with an open mind
A few years ago, a developer in one of my Scrum teams gave me feedback. He said "I like the way you make our processes so open-ended. That way we can really achieve the best result in the matter. Instead of simply confirming what has already been decided by management." This statement really stuck with me. Even back then...
Leadership in organizations - from a systemic perspective
It's Saturday evening and arte is showing a documentary about tango. I get stuck. Then a scene: two women in pinstripe suits, wide pants, both with top hats. Everything in the style of the 40s. Dancing together. But something is different, better than the couples before them. Even before I could figure out what it was, the...
Systems thinking at management level
How can systems thinking help us to design better organizations? This short article provides an initial insight into the theory of social systems and shows how it can be applied in practice.
The magic numbers 1, 3 and 7
The numbers 1, 3, and 7 reflect important heuristics that play an almost magical role in systems engineering.
Object orientation with a difference: Guest article by Carsten Pitz
Today's article was written by Carsten Pitz, who went from simple programming to object orientation and finally ended up in systems engineering, and has gained a lot of experience in MBSE in particular. Carsten will be publishing guest articles on SE-Trends approximately every 4-6 weeks. In today's article, he introduces himself and explains how he got there in the first place,...
