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Working Products 2020
A real Corona experiment. Spread over 4 days to prevent digital overload. The great surprise: We could keep up the very special, friendly and familiar atmosphere in the digital world. Ok, the great outdoor experience from the Goldbekhaus is just not there on a flat screen...
In summary
It was a great four days. The special character of Working Products also works remotely: familiar, intensive exchange of experiences between all participants. Presumably, in 2020 again, everyone talked to every other participant at some point.
Tweets about #wpkonfThe format
For the remote conference, we stretched the program over 4 days because we believe that NOBODY can watch talks on screen all day. Therefore, we offered the presentations in the morning and late afternoon on each of the four days. This way we could do without the parallel tracks and every participant had the chance to see all presentations live. During the day, there were also a number of workshops.
We had almost half of the speakers live in our office for the presentations. The others were "only" present via zoom. After each presentation, of course, the Speakers Corner. This worked almost better than live, because every audience member could hear and see everything and it was easier to discuss.Before each lecture block there were also meditation and movement exercises led by Beate Winter from Working Products. Beate co-founded Working Products in 2006 and is a co-organizer of the conference.
The lectures and workshops
Again this year, the presentations were roughly divided into the two tracks "Product and Team Culture" and "Product Management: Experiences, Tools and Methods". Since we only had one lecture track, each participant was able to view each lecture.
Personally, I liked Christian Becker's talk, where Christian presented that user-centricity means taking care of the most important/profitable customers for the company and not fulfilling every user's every wish....
We recorded the presentations and made them available on YouTube: Presentations WP 2020The social stuff
Since barbecue, music and being outside unfortunately didn't work this year, we did an online game night instead. I didn't think that could be so much fun.
The lineup for the first remote Working Products conference
Beate Schulte Strathaus
Arbeitsfrische®
Coach and mindfulness trainer
More about Beate Schulte StrathausSabine Reinecke
Freelancer
Agile Coach, Trainerin für Agile Coaches, Unternehmensberaterin, Coach
More about Sabine ReineckeLars Klingelhöfer
Kreutz & Partner GmbH Unternehmensberatung BDU
Agile Coach, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Transformationsbegleiter
More about Lars Klingelhöfer -
Again a list of speakers to be proud of. Thanks that you made the Working Products 2019 possible
Beate Schulte Strathaus
Arbeitsfrische®
Coach and mindfulness trainer
More about Beate Schulte StrathausKim Nena Duggen
Embarc Software Consulting GmbH
Organizational Development Coach, Consultant, Trainer, CBDO
More about Kim Nena DuggenMarkus Christian Hofmeier
Freelancer
Principal UX and CX Consultant
More about Markus Christian HofmeierMatthias Blaß
Hanseatic Bank GmbH & Co KG (Société Gérnérale, Otto Group)
product owner
More about Matthias BlaßMichael Merks
Inszena New Consulting Group GmbH
Senior Management Consultant and Coach
More about Michael MerksRolf Schulte Strathaus
eparo GmbH
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
More about Rolf Schulte StrathausRonni Wildfang
Hanseatic Bank GmbH & Co KG (Société Gérnérale, Otto Group)
Solutions Developer Digital Services Line
More about Ronni WildfangSebastian Tiesler
finleap connect GmbH
Head of Solution Engineering and Go to Market
More about Sebastian TieslerTorsten Voller
Freelancer
Speaker, Moderator, Trainer, Schauspieler, Coach, Autor
More about Torsten Voller -
Working Products 2018
2 days of sun, being outside, exchange and good talks.
Two days of bright sunshine made Working Products 2018 an open-air event. Only the 12 presentations were indoors, everything else took place outdoors. For this, the Goldbekhaus was the perfect place. Especially of course with the canoes and stand-up paddling.
All lectures were of course great. After each presentation there were intensive discussions and Q&A sessions with the speakers in the Speakers Corner.
In the afternoon, we worked together in the sessions on various product management topics. Outdoors, of course.
But the most important thing was again the many conversations between the participants. Probably everyone talked to every other participant at some point.
All speakers of the Working Products 2018 (first time at the Goldbekhaus)
Marcel Semmler
Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG
Operations Director Imagine Programme
More about Marcel SemmlerBeate Schulte Strathaus
Arbeitsfrische®
Coach and mindfulness trainer
More about Beate Schulte StrathausMatthias Blaß
Hanseatic Bank GmbH & Co KG (Société Gérnérale, Otto Group)
product owner
More about Matthias BlaßMichael Merks
Inszena New Consulting Group GmbH
Senior Management Consultant and Coach
More about Michael MerksRolf Schulte Strathaus
eparo GmbH
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
More about Rolf Schulte StrathausRainer Gibbert
Star Finanz-Software Entwicklung und Vertriebs GmbH
Bereichsleiter Privatkundengeschäft
More about Rainer Gibbert -
Working Products 2017
2 days with 100 participants, 12 presentations, 14 open sessions and countless conversations and discussions about good digital product development and the everyday life of product managers.
We liked it a lot and also the participants were super satisfied through the bank.We invited Susanne Kreuz, a UX designer friend, to Working Products and asked her to summarize her personal impressions in a blog post:
Review of Working Products 2017
Great list of speakers in year 2 of the Working Products conference
Beate Schulte Strathaus
Arbeitsfrische®
Coach and mindfulness trainer
More about Beate Schulte StrathausWinald Kasch
OrgaNeo GmbH
Berater Für Organisationsentwicklung, Gründer OrgaNeo
More about Winald KaschMatthias Schrader
SinnerSchrader
Head Accenture Interactive DACH and Chief Executive Officer SinnerSchrader
More about Matthias SchraderRolf Schulte Strathaus
eparo GmbH
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
More about Rolf Schulte StrathausMathias Schröder
it - agile GmbH
Berater Für Zukunftsfähige Organisationen and Kanban Coaching Professional
More about Mathias Schröder -
Working Products 2016
On the first conference day there were 12 presentations in two tracks. After each presentation there was time to exchange with the speaker and other conference topics in the "Speakers Corner".
At the end there were two discussion rounds and afterwards there was some partying. On the second day, the participants were able to discuss product management topics and develop solutions together in 9 sessions in the ProductSpace.
The amazing line-up of our first Working Products conference
Beate Schulte Strathaus
Arbeitsfrische®
Coach and mindfulness trainer
More about Beate Schulte StrathausSeverin Bandera
Mercedes-Benz.io GmbH
Head of Data Insights and Analytics
More about Severin BanderaMatthias Hallmann
Springest
Helping Companies to Internationally Turbo Scale 🚀💚 I Love to Talk About Self Organisation and the Future
More about Matthias HallmannJohannes Mainusch
kommitment GmbH & Co. KG
Interim Chief Technology Officer
More about Johannes MainuschInken Petersen
Freelancer
Digital Product Design Management and UX Consulting
More about Inken PetersenJan-Philipp Rombolotto
Vaillant GmbH (Vaillant Group)
Director Group Digital Strategy
More about Jan-Philipp RombolottoRolf Schulte Strathaus
eparo GmbH
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
More about Rolf Schulte StrathausSebastian Klein
Neue Narrative
Author The Loop Approach, Co-Founder Blinkist & Neue Narrative
More about Sebastian Klein
