Thomas Flinspach

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  • Where‘s the subscription when you need one?

    Diese verdammte Zugkordeln haben mich schon unendlich viel Zeit gekostet.

  • Oppenharbie

    Oppenharbie

    9/10: Das wohl wunderbarste Kinoereignis in diesem Jahr. Und zwar in der Reihenfolge: Erst Oppenheimer, dann Barbie! Nicht andersherum! Der Hype ist absolut berechtigt, da sich beide Filme so wunderbar ergänzen: Da, wo Nolan mit Oppenheimer akribisch tief geht, geht Gerwig mit Barbie breit. Da, wo Oppenheimer düstere, drückende Atmosphäre liefert, besticht Barbie mit einer…

  • On 4th February I joined the virtual and 5:30 hours lasting UX & Product Conference with the seductive sub-title „The brightest minds of UX & Product go head-to-head„. The 7 sessions showed an exciting wide range of topics: Design, strategy, user research and of course product management. The conference was mainly built around a new…

  • Why Agile Product Management Is Stuck in the Echo Chamber
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    When I have read the excellent speaker line-up for this year’s Productized conference in my beloved Lisbon  (1-2 November), I knew, that I definitely needed to attend: To experience Melissa Perri, Jeff Gothelf and especially Marty Cagan live, was something I really couldn’t miss! For those of you who don’t know about the Productized conference;…

  • How Kenner Mastered the Difficult Star Wars Action Figures Roll-Out in 1978

    Emotional Documentation Yesterday evening I watched episode 1 of the fantastic The Toys That Made Us series on Netflix. It tells the story behind the famous toy lines Star Wars, Barbie, The Masters of the Universe, and G.I. Joe and give also deep behind the scenes insights about the product development processes. It’s a really…

  • Most Inspiring Talks of the Productized 2017 Conference
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    Even though I didn’t visit last year’s product management conference Productized in Lisbon, I watched the whole 9 hours long official re-live video two times for picking out these cherries for me and for you: Rian van der Merwe „How to build successful products by prioritizing team happiness above everything else“ #TeamHappiness Rian van der…

  • What “Blade Runner 2049″ tells us about the future smart home

    Due to the fact that I’m working in the smart home business I often get asked, what’s my long-term vision of living in the future? How does A.I. and new devices improve and change our daily living routines like coming home, cooking, relaxing, family life, sleeping, awaking or leaving home? Predicting the future is hard…

  • Meet & Learn with Daimler Fleetboard

    At the midth of May my Product Owner and Scrum Master colleagues together with our Head of development and CIO had the chance to visit Daimler Fleetboard for a mutual exchange of experiences here in Stuttgart. The contact with Fleetboard – a 100% Daimler AG subsidiary for digital solutions for the transport and logistics industry – came…

  • Last Friday I had the chance to visit the first Mind The Product (MTP) Engage Conference in my beloved Hamburg. The conference took place at the Katholische Akademie and accommodated round about 300 „passionate“ product people like Product Owners or Product Managers and presenting 20 speakers. The „Engage“ in the conference title stands for enough space…