Category: 1.1 Industry (General)

When compared with hardware, software has been only a recent addition to products. Companies have been reorganizing ever since to better deal with software development. Initially, software developers were part of the department that created and brought to market the overall product, with software initially being a small, later a large part of it. The…

My engineering colleagues are sometimes sarcastic about the (many) on-going “digitalization” initiatives: “Didn’t we do this 20-30 years ago, when we switched from analog to digital?” I guess, they are talking about digitization, not about what is currently meant with “digitalization”. Different from digitization, today’s “digitalization” initiatives are about giving software an equal seat at…

Today, I gave a keynote at the 2018 spring Inner Source Commons summit at Bosch, in Renningen, Germany. I talked about our experiences with ten years of inner source projects at the companies we have been working with. The slides are available as a PDF. The photo above is from the first keynote of the…

According to my hosts, this object took 34h to print.