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In summary
With over 130 participants and speakers, 18 presentations and 6 workshops, we broke all Working Products records this year:-)
We are still quite euphoric about the good mood, the engagement and interactions of all participants and the great feedback we got.
Even though the weather luck let us down a bit for the first time this year, a lot still took place outside.
We were again in the Goldbekhaus in Hamburg and again with the catering of the production school Altona and the decoration of herbs and bee plants.
The special character of Working Products has worked live 2022 again extremely well: Familiar, intensive exchange of experiences between all participants. We are sure that in 2022, too, everyone talked to every other participant at some point.
Highlighs of the Working Products conference 2022
All speakers 2022
Arne Hopf
Hermes Germany GmbH
Teamlead Application Development Web, Mobile, API
More about Arne HopfBeate Schulte Strathaus
Working Products - Schulte Strathaus GbR
Coach and mindfulness trainer
More about Beate Schulte StrathausClaudia Friedrich
Zweigrad GmbH & Co. KG
Geschäftsführerin Und Designerin
More about Claudia FriedrichElena Hermann
Nordakademie - Hochschule der Wirtschaft
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
More about Elena HermannFranziska Herrmann
Nordakademie - Hochschule der Wirtschaft
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
More about Franziska HerrmannHannes Mainusch
kommitment GmbH & Co. KG
Interim Chief Technology Officer
More about Hannes MainuschIlona Koglin
WHOOPEE CONNECTIONS
Freelance Journalist, Author, Blogger, Project Facilitator
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Working Products 2021
Corona-related again as an online event, spread over 4 days to avoid online overload. We have used the experience from 2020 to further improve technology and processes.
In summary
It was another great four days. By choosing Hopin as the conference platform, the exchange among the participants worked really well. The spontaneous Session of Publishing People was fun, because product managers from different publishing houses found each other at the conference.
The special character of Working Products worked well again in 2021 remote: Familiar, intensive exchange of experiences between all participants. We are sure that in 2021, too, everyone spoke with every other participant at some point.
Tweets about #wpkonfThe format
We stuck with the 4 day split. However, we had 10 workshops in the early afternoon and so the 4 days were completely filled after all.
This year the conference was completely remote. No speakers on site with us.
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 presentation track, each attendee was able to view each presentation.
We found Daniel Neuberger's talk to be very important. Daniel advocated that we all take our responsibility and be mindful of precious design and development capabilities. "Build the right/important products. Work where you have a real impact. Change jobs when you need to."
We recorded the talks and made them available on YouTube: talks WP 2021Sustainability Roundtable
On Friday, there was another roundtable on "Developing Sustainable Digital Products". For more than two hours, Karel Golta (INDEED Innovation), Thorsten Jonas and Florian Grote (CODE University) moderated by Beate talked about what responsibility designers and product managers have to make digital products and services as sustainable as possible. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
The lineup for the first remote Working Products conference
Roman Pichler
Pichler Consulting
Product Management Expert Lean, Agile, Scrum
More about Roman PichlerSabine Reinecke
Self-employed
Agile Coach, Trainerin für Agile Coaches, Unternehmensberaterin, Coach
More about Sabine ReineckeLars Klingelhöfer
HR Pioneers GmbH
Agile Coach, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Transformationsbegleiter
More about Lars KlingelhöferBeate Schulte Strathaus
Working Products - Schulte Strathaus GbR
Coach and mindfulness trainer
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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
Roman Pichler
Pichler Consulting
Product Management Expert Lean, Agile, Scrum
More about Roman PichlerSabine Reinecke
Self-employed
Agile Coach, Trainerin für Agile Coaches, Unternehmensberaterin, Coach
More about Sabine ReineckeLars Klingelhöfer
HR Pioneers GmbH
Agile Coach, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Transformationsbegleiter
More about Lars KlingelhöferBeate Schulte Strathaus
Working Products - Schulte Strathaus GbR
Coach and mindfulness trainer
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Again a list of speakers to be proud of. Thanks that you made the Working Products 2019 possible
Anne Hoffmann
Siemens Healthcare GmbH
Customer Success Manager Digital Airport
More about Anne HoffmannBeate Schulte Strathaus
Working Products - Schulte Strathaus GbR
Coach and mindfulness trainer
More about Beate Schulte StrathausKim Duggen
Embarc Software Consulting GmbH
Organizational Development Coach, Consultant, Trainer, CBDO
More about Kim DuggenMichael Merks
Inszena New Consulting Group GmbH
Senior Management Consultant and Coach
More about Michael MerksRonni 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
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Torsten Voller
Self-employed
Speaker, Moderator, Trainer, Schauspieler, Coach, Autor
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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 SemmlerMichael Merks
Inszena New Consulting Group GmbH
Senior Management Consultant and Coach
More about Michael MerksRainer Gibbert
Star Finanz-Software Entwicklung und Vertriebs GmbH
Head of Private Customer Business
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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
Winald Kasch
Otto (GmbH & Co KG)
Berater Für Organisationsentwicklung, Gründer OrgaNeo
More about Winald KaschRoman Pichler
Pichler Consulting
Product Management Expert Lean, Agile, Scrum
More about Roman PichlerMatthias Schrader
Accenture Song
Head Accenture Interactive DACH and Chief Executive Officer SinnerSchrader
More about Matthias SchraderMathias Schröder
it - agile GmbH
Berater Für Zukunftsfähige Organisationen and Kanban Coaching Professional
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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
Severin Bandera
Mercedes-Benz.io GmbH
Head of Data Insights and Analytics
More about Severin BanderaMatt Hallmann
Teal / Tamago
Helping Companies to Internationally Turbo Scale 🚀💚 I Love to Talk About Self Organisation and the Future
More about Matt HallmannHannes Mainusch
kommitment GmbH & Co. KG
Interim Chief Technology Officer
More about Hannes MainuschInken Petersen
Aroundhome
Digital Product Design Management and UX Consulting
More about Inken PetersenJan Rombolotto
Vaillant GmbH (Vaillant Group)
Director Group Digital Strategy
More about Jan RombolottoChristo Zonnev
Capgemini Engineering
Vice President Data Science at Capgemini Invent
More about Christo ZonnevSebastian Klein
CoachHub - The digital coaching platform
Author The Loop Approach, Co-Founder Blinkist & Neue Narrative
More about Sebastian Klein