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The Agentic Trio

The Product Trio separated discovery from delivery because delivery required a larger team. Agentic development removes this constraint. That changes what a product team can look like.

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Hail Mary: Why domain knowledge cannot be extracted from experts

AI agents promise to replace weeks of requirements workshops with hours of structured interviews. The pitch is compelling. The cognitive science is not.

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AI Features for Jira Data Center – No Atlassian Cloud Required

Our Digital Independence Day recipe for going off-cloud

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Neuland reloaded

When Angela Merkel said in 2013 that the internet is ‘Neuland’ (uncharted territory) for all of us, the amusement online was considerable. Viewed from some temporal and substantive distance, one can now recognize a perspective from which she was indeed correct.

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AI and Elaboration: Which Coding Patterns Build Understanding?

AI tools let you complete coding tasks without connecting new information to your existing mental models—a cognitive process known as elaboration that is crucial for building understanding. But some AI interaction patterns preserve this elaboration while others bypass it entirely. Let’s explore what elaboration is, why it helps with learning, and how we can use AI tools in a way that helps with this process rather than circumventing it.

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Speed vs. Skill

Developing with AI through the cognitive Lens

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A Governance Framework for Digital Sovereignty

In an increasingly connected world where digital infrastructure forms the backbone of our economy and society, the topic of digital sovereignty is gaining more and more attention. For decision-makers in German-speaking countries, this goes far beyond merely selecting a cloud provider. It’s about strategic agency, resilience, and the ability to actively shape one’s digital future. This article explores how a robust governance methodology can help organizations not only understand digital sovereignty but also put it into practice—without sacrificing convenience or innovation.

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Think Locally: On-Premise LLMs as Drivers of Competitive Advantage

Consider this scenario: Your organisation has integrated AI tools into critical business processes, your legal team has carefully reviewed data processing agreements, and your IT department has configured systems to comply with GDPR requirements. Then, a foreign court issues an order that overrides all these protections, requiring your AI provider to indefinitely retain data that should be deleted—including potentially sensitive corporate information shared by your employees.

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Digital Sovereignty as Self-Understanding

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Business Model Canvas: Geschäftsmodelle sichtbar machen

Der Business Model Canvas hilft, zentrale Fragen frühzeitig zu klären: Wer sind unsere Kund:innen? Welches Problem lösen wir? Und wie erzeugen wir damit echten Mehrwert? Gerade an der Schnittstelle zwischen IT und Business schafft das Modell ein gemeinsames Verständnis – und hilft, technische Entscheidungen mit der Geschäftsperspektive zu verbinden.

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Primacy-Recency

Was am Anfang gesagt wird oder zum Schluss hängen bleibt, prägt oft das gesamte Gespräch. Dieses Phänomen ist als Primacy-Recency-Effekt bekannt – und beeinflusst, wie wir Informationen aufnehmen, Gespräche bewerten und Entscheidungen treffen. Gerade in Meetings, Präsentationen oder Feedbacksituationen kann das entscheidend sein. Wer den Effekt kennt, kann ihn gezielt nutzen – zum Beispiel, um relevante Inhalte besser zu platzieren und Kommunikation wirksamer zu gestalten.

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Enabling Stakeholders as a Success Factor

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Common Approaches in the Field of Socio-Technical Architectures

In the age of digitalization and modernization, companies face the challenge of not only keeping up with technological advancements but also optimizing their organizational structures. Socio-technical architectures play a crucial role in this process by focusing on the flow of work, team collaboration, and the seamless integration of technical and social systems. This article explores two key approaches—Team Topologies and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)—and demonstrates how they can help organizations take the first steps toward consciously designing their socio-technical architecture.

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Socio-Technical Architectures: Informality from Mining to Today

Informal structures are hard to spot – but they can make or break a technical solution. Sociotechnical systems show why that matters, and what mining has to do with building apps.

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Socio-Technical Architecture as a Competitive Advantage

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Platforms, Teams, and APIs: How Do They Fit Together?

One of the major trends in recent years has been Platform Engineering, as many organizations strive for more efficient and fasterdevelopment practices. The term has gained traction since 2018, particularly following an influential article by Evan Bottcher. Looking at the origins of this concept provides valuable insights into the relevance of Platform Engineering today and its potential future developments.

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Soziale Bewährtheit - die Macht der Herde

Microservices, Kubernetes, Scrum – was alle nutzen, kann nicht falsch sein, oder? Soziale Bewährtheit beeinflusst Entscheidungen, spart Zeit, kann aber auch in die falsche Richtung führen. In IT-Projekten heißt das oft: Trends werden übernommen, ohne sie kritisch zu hinterfragen. Wann das nützt und wann es schadet – darum geht es in diesem Beitrag.

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Survivorship Bias

Menschen, Muster, Motivation: Sozialpsychologie in der IT

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Monokausalität: Warum wir einfache Erklärungen lieben

Unser Gehirn liebt klare, einfache Antworten – besonders wenn es um die Frage nach dem “Warum” geht. Dieser Blogpost zeigt, warum Monokausalität verlockend, aber oft irreführend ist – und wie wir den Blick für komplexe Zusammenhänge schärfen können.

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Compliance in hybrid operating environments

Compliance is a key element of corporate governance. It helps ensure that developed software upholds the necessary legal conformity and quality. It is also an unavoidable criterion for modernizing a system landscape, which often goes hand in hand with migration to the cloud.

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Pragmatische Evolution von Platform Engineering für die Cloud

Organisatorische und kulturelle Transformation

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Communicating organizational changes with “Team Topologies”

Whenever the need arises to set up a new team, split a team into two or move responsibilities between teams it is necessary to have a good idea of where you are and where you want to be after the change. Additionally to the current and final states you will very likely have phases with intermediate states. To help everyone involved to have a shared understanding of which phases you will transition through - and when responsibilities and communication channels have to be created or changed - a visual representation of these states can be used to paint a (literal) common picture.

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Es lebe die Bürokratie!

Die Digitalisierung hilft, Bürokratie zu reduzieren, glaubt man. Warum das so einfach nicht ist, erklärt diese Kolumne.

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Die Anatomie eines erfolgreichen Teams

…und worauf Sie bei der Zusammenstellung eines erfolgreichen Software-Entwicklungsteams achten sollten

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Paradoxical Safety

Psychologische Sicherheit ist ein heikles Konzept. Einerseits ist es in aller Munde und jeder dieser Münder hat eine Meinung dazu. Andererseits ist es praktisch sehr schwer zu realisieren. Ein Aspekt, der in Hinsicht auf psychologische Sicherheit schief laufen kann und wie man mit diesem umgehen kann, soll hier beleuchtet werden.