Workstreams is an agile task board that is entirely based on Slack and therefore the first of its kind that embraces modern chat-communication in its core concepts.

Fields of Work:

• Researching and validating a broad problem-statement while defining the target group
• Conducting interviews and micro-surveys with potential target-groups
• Validating various solutions setting up and conducting experiments
• Creating a technical proof of concept for technical feasibility
• Ramping up a new development team from zero within few weeks
• Realizing an MVP as a Product Lead
• Defining core metrics to measure product success and realizing a data pipeline to gain deep insights into product usage
• Coaching other product managers how to apply concepts of lean innovation and lean analytics

Impact:

• Development of an entirely new product with a clear USP within only few months
• Adoption of lean innovation and lean analytics across all product teams leading by example and coaching individuals
• Building up a strong üartnership with Slack (App Directory Feature, mutual Feedback, etc.)
• Winning strong support of investors to further develop product

ShareTheMeal in an innovation project of the United Nations World Food Programme that enables everyone to donate meals for children in crisis situations.

Fields of Work:

• Ramping up an entire development team within few weeks

• Defining the overal technical strategy of the application
• Giving advisory for the product development

• Leading the development of a highly scalable API and notification system
• Reviewing and supporting the development of the native iOS and Anroid Apps
• Taking care of the stratigic cooperation with important technology partners

Impact:

• Launching the App in Germany after 4 months of development and worldwide after 8 months
• Various awards: Startup of Year (Leap), Interactive Innovation Award (SXSW), Best Social Impact App (Google Play Awards), Editor's Choice (Google Play), ...
• PR coverage by all major media worldwide: The Guradian, New York Times, CNN, RTL, ...
• Very deep partnerships with Google and Apple (e.g. various globale App Store features)
• Securing long term support for the App by United Nations World Food Programme

rplan connect is a newly developed SaaS version of one of the most sophisticated project-management tools used by the German automotive industry.

Fields of Work:

• Leading the software development team in regards of software-architecture and technology-decisions
• Evnagelist for clean-code, test driven development and agile methodologies
• Mentoring developers of different exprience-levels
• Advicing the leadership-team in decisions that involve technological questions

Impact:

• Building up an efficient assessment for the recruiting of new developers
• Doubling the development team within few months
• Introducing test-driven development and continuous deployment

AWIN is Europe's leading performance advertising network.

Fields of Work:

• Leading the architecture and technological evolvement of the customer platform
• Leading the introduction of a company-wide messaging infrastructure

• Coordindating technological decisions across various internationally distributed development teams

• Continously exchanging about technological aspects of the customer platform with product managers and members of the board

Impact:

• Realizing the technical implementation of a highly complex merger
• Introduction of event-driven patterns in the platforms system architecture
• Introduction of Continuous Delivery and Deployment