The Velocity Loop: A DevOps-inspired model for physical products
The Velocity Loop is a DevOps-inspired model for cyber-physical products that supports Product Velocity.
Why I write Product Velocity
My book Product Velocity is the playbook for Industrial DevOps: Developing physical products at software speed.
Germany: Courage to innovate
2018, and Germany is doing better than ever. Looking back from 2025, we can say: we missed this opportunity!
My five highlights at TdSE 2016
The Day of Systems Engineering (TdSE) is the largest conference on systems engineering in Germany. This conference evolved from the GfSE members' meeting, which is now an appendage. As a systems engineer, I am of course also present there - as a visitor and as a speaker. More on this in a moment. The TdSE takes place every year at...
Interview with Sven-Olaf Schulze on SE in Germany
Sven-Olaf Schulze should be familiar to anyone in Germany who is involved in systems engineering (SE), as he has been active in the Society for Systems Engineering (GfSE) almost since it was founded in 1997 and has been its chairman since 2009. In addition to his voluntary work at the GfSE, he was also a lecturer for systems engineering at the...
Will Daimler manage the introduction of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)?
At ReConf 2016, Siegmar Haasis, then CIO at Daimler, reported on how the Group envisions MBSE.
New systems engineering online course from MIT, NASA and Boeing
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), my alma mater, will be offering an online course on systems engineering this summer. MIT is collaborating with Boeing and NASA for this course. I find this exciting because systems engineering education is a much-discussed topic at the moment. A good online course makes it possible to...
Can Germany keep up in systems engineering?
Germany is worried: Digital Agenda, Industry 4.0 - all the buzzwords are buzzing around, but will Germany be able to keep up with the rapid pace of development? While Google, Apple and Tessla are developing new cars, VW is grappling with the emissions scandal. While Tessla relies on open source, German board members are worried that their knowledge could be stolen. And...
