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: S1B3: Three Experimentation Pitfalls Experimentation - A Story to Avoid them This week marked our annual Product Barcamp at XING. While around 40 Product Managers gathered in …

: S1B2: New Work Harbour Last week, on the day of my birthday, we went back to the office. After more than 1,5 years of …

: Blog Season Kick-off: Welcome to S1 Days get shorter and nights longer. Mornings start with crisp, fresh air until the first ray of …

: Volcano Island This is the next post about my parental leave during April 2021 on the beautiful Açores Islands. …

: Parental Leave on São Miguel After a 3 hour flight from Hamburg, Germany to Lisboa, Portugal, followed by another 2 hour flight, …

: Parental Leave Dream Adjustments It‘s April 2021 and I‘m on parental leave. Why this month? It is my second son‘s 14th month in this …

: Clarity, Hope and Perspective A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the lack of clarity, hope and perspective in the communication …

: Rules for a Better Life Ryan Holiday is among my favorite authors of all time. Most of his content does a fantastic job at …

: Winter of Lockdown Get Cozy While a new year provides me with plenty of energy and motivation, I am not a big fan of …

: My favourite book on Management The New One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard arguably is the shortest and best book on …

: 2021 Goals Same as for last year, I put down 3 goals for 2021: Do less but better: Decentralise work by …

: 2020 Review It has been a while since my last post. I focused December on bringing this turbulent year of 2020 …

: Digital Minimalism I just finished Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport on Audible. Recommended Read or Listen? Yes. While …

: Production is what matters Paul Osman’s blog post on Production Oriented Development is pure gold. With my limited …

: Gamification: Games raise brain loads Building products with my background in gaming, the topic of “Gamification” comes up …

: Control versus Influence Epictetus, one of the great Stoics, already said “The chief task in life is simply this: to …

: Corona Winter Heros Our government, the Bundesregierung produced some TV ads around behavior in times of the current …

: I love the Autumn sun 🍁 We spent the weekend with my wife’s parents. They live close to the …

: Missionaries discover and execute When developing products, having one team or part of a team focussed on Discovery and then others on …

: When I don’t feel like going out but want to take a break, I open a window somewhere in the …

: Conversational Interfaces Today, I attended a short webinar on “Conversational Interfaces” hosted by Applause in …

: Building a team through remote games Especially with remote teams, building relationships and a sense of team spirit is challenging. What …

: Porto, Portugal - the best small city When I joined XING in 2018 I was happy to hear there is an office in Porto. It’s the perfect …

: Yesterday, Biden was elected to be the next US president. The best thing about that? Today marked …

: The success of your user onboarding can‘t be measured by completion rates. When optimizing user onboarding flows, the completion rate number of users who started the flow / …

: It’s a Friday night and this is my first post ever on micro.blog I got here via Jamie …

: [EN] Xing | User Onboarding Highlights App Xing About Xing is is the largest online business network in the DACH region. Sign-up is free …

: [EN] Closed vs. Open Garden User Onboarding Broadly speaking there are 2 different approaches to User Onboarding: Either you allow users into …

: [DE] Video | Die Kraft von Online Video In 2014 habe ich damit experimentiert, eine digitale Agentur für animierte Erklärvideos aufzubauen. …

: [EN] Spotify | User Onboarding Highlights App Spotify About Spotify allows to explore and play any music across platforms. It offers a free, …

: [EN] What we learned at Mind the Product 2017 Mind the Product is THE product management conference. I went to the event in London on September …

: [EN] Monzo | User Onboarding Highlights App Monzo About Monzo is building the bank of the future, designed for the world we live in today. …