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  • Die Pest

    Die Pest

    Literatur zum Ereignis, gefühlt liest es ja gerade jeder.

    Die Situation in der Stadt Oran wird durch einen großen Teil durch die Unsicherheit bestimmt. Niemand weiss, wie lange das Geschehen dauern wird und wann die Krankheit vorbei sein wird. In einer Arbeitsorganisation braucht es dafür nicht einmal eine Pest. Um Unsicherheit zu erzeugen, reicht es oft schon, eine Entscheidung nicht zu treffen. Manchmal schauen große Teile der Abteilung auf Ihre Führungsmannschaft und hoffen auf eine klärende Aussage. Aus Unwissenheit oder falschen Absichten fehlt manchmal die erlösende Antwort.

    Abhängig von der Perspektive kann das eine Kleinigkeit sein oder von existentieller Tragweite. Die Frage zu erkennen ist die Schwirigkeit, vor der die Führungskraft steht. Wenn die Entscheidung aber fällt, fühlen sich manche Teile der Organisation erschöpft, weil sie viel Zeit und Energie verwendet haben das Ergebnis zu beeinflußen. Andere sind erleichtert, weil die Unsicherheit beendet ist.

    In jedem Fall aber ist der Weg zu etwas neuem geebnet.

    daily photo, late, Corona, 29.04.2020

  • Essential Product Metrics

    Data driven product management requires measurements and metrics. Over at Product Management Insider, shares some detail about the pirate („AARRR!“) system and the HEART model.

    The article is here.

  • What Makes People Upgrade Products?

    With the release, a product ain’t done yet. Customers may like that product and go for with this product for a long while. At some point, a new release will bring them to make a decision. HBR has a perspective on the drivers for these decision points.

    CULTURA RM EXCLUSIVE/ROB PRIDEAUX/GETTY IMAGES through Article source

    People splurge when they think they’ve grown.

    Source: What Makes People Upgrade Products? Thinking About Self-Improvement

  • Goodbye Servers, Hello Devices.

    It’s been a wild ride for the most time of the past 9 years. The Internet came a long way and the time I spent at Akamai Technologies since 2007 were an amazing and exciting experience. Before I came there, I was working for a security consultancy, planning deployments of hundreds of Firewalls and Intrusion-Detection Systems. Having to deal with thousands of servers was absolutely the right choice at that time and the decision didn’t turn out wrong.

    During my time at the company, I worked for close to 100 brands, from all kinds of vertical like automotive, air-travel, industry, logistics, high-tech, e-commerce, media & entertainment. Mostly global corporations, all of which were well-known brands, even outside the Internet industry.

    Having held 4 different roles, I helped customers on 2 continents to get their digital strategy in place, visited uncounted customers and prospects, places and offices in 10 different countries, collecting 80+ stamps and visa on my 3 new passports, while I reported to 9 different managers. Akamai likely gained 160.000 servers in the same timeframe, coming to more than 200.000 at the time of this writing.

    And during the same time, Internet evolved further. When my time at Akamai began, the iPhone was about 3 months old, and became available in Germany only after I started. Since mobile Internet is broadly available,  technology and after all society really changed. This shift towards general acceptance of internet made the time with the company a wild ride.

    While the normal smart phone user takes Internet availability for granted today, technology doesn’t stand still. The broad availability of connectivity  came to a point where new opportunities are starting to emerge. Having stepped up the game from hundreds of firewalls in 2003 to hundreds of thousands of servers in 2007, today house hold appliances start to become available with a “connected” options, making them more smart at the promise to make life more efficient and convenient.

    The Internet of Things opens the opportunity to work with millions of Internet connected things going forward. And this forthcoming development will lead to another wild ride that I wanted to take part in right from the beginning. Therefor, I decided to join Osram’s Lightify department, starting tomorrow! I’m excited!

  • Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled

    Linux, the open source operating system that virtually powers all of webservers, billions of Android phones as it’s kernel just as well as the majority of home routers and IoT devices, turns 25 years this year. IEEE Spectrum runs an article on the history and why the open kernel became so successful.

    Timing, cost, and the right license made all the difference.

    Also, Linus Torvalds has an approach that would be called agile these days. Bringing a feature in place is more important than having the 100% solution, and Linus explains this approach in the accompanying Q&A session:

    I’d rather make a decision that turns out to be wrong later than waffle about possible alternatives for too long.

    via: Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled – IEEE Spectrum