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The last two days I was at the Predictive Analytics World Business Conference in Berlin. The event happened inside the Estrel Hotel, a nice and good managed location. In the talks of day one, little was in for me. The deep dive tracks were too deep for me. The use case tracks too superficial. At least it looks like presenting companies are using AI/ML in production. This is in contrast to the Industrial Data Science Days in Dortmund earlier this year, where Companies are using AI/ML in scientific PoCs, far from production.

At day two, the talks were much more interesting. My personal highlight was the talk (with the very long title) “Data Science Development Lifecycle – Everyone Talks About It, Nobody Really Knows How to Do It and Everyone Thinks Everyone Else Is Doing It” by Christian Lindenlaub und René Traue. They summarized their learnings from using Scrum and other methods in Machine Learning projects. They showed how to combine different agile methodologies to run successful machine learning + production software projects. Very inspiring for our own projects too.

The following talk “How to Integrate Machine Learning into Serverless Workflows” delivered also some helpful insights for some of Tarent’s current projects.

In the end, a good conference with some points I took home. See you next year? I don’t know yet. We will see.

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Slogan of the month: The intellectual capital of your business has two legs and walks home every day.

What have I done:

• Had nice workshops at Fraunhofer Institute for Big Data Analytics
• Successfully finished hard work on a internal data center migration with the Cloud of Things team
• Planted the seeds for the hosting quality improvements
• Worked on the performance of my blog. Improved site performance by 40%. PHP upgrade to v7 was the most gain. Performance could be better but for my kind of hosting it’s very good.
• Designed strategy, corner milestones and goals for 2017
• Prepared my talk for Bonn Agile Meetup January: IoT und Bastelprojekte (more on this later in this blog)
• Enjoyed Christmas and New Year’s Eve vacation

Read:

• Your Minimum Viable Product can be more ‘minimum’ than you think
• A simple assessment how agile your team is
• Derek Sievers quits answering questions, but was gorgeous enough to leave with an FAQ. I good reference for various topics about self-development.
• I just read Tim Ferris notes, not listening to his podcasts. One of his recent issue is Testing The “Impossible”: 17 Questions That Changed My Life.
• Benjamin Cabé wrote a review of Eclipse IoT in 2016
• “Innovation” is dead. Long live “innovation” by Alexander Osterwalder.
• Wonder how to improve Battery Life on low-power devices?
• Introduction of Bluetooth 5
• Something about GIT: Comparison of different GIT Workflows

Watched:

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Brian Tracy Goal Setting Guide

Brian Tracy has written down a good guide for goal setting. He hasn’t added anything which is not common sense, if you have already read the basics of this topic. You can get his article for 0$ here, you just need to subscribe to the newsletter. Of course you can use trash-mail.com or so, but he is an excellent source for information about personal development and productivity. I just learned he has an app for this process too, but I haven’t tried yet.

Regarding his guide, I especially like the Rule 2: “Write it down”. Writing it down and read it regular, is a good exercise to stay focused on your goals. But even he can’t do the magic for you, the habit of self-discipline is necessary to achieve what you want.

Time Management

If you have set your goals and planned the next steps, it is natural to loose focus or get overwhelmed by the daily business. To keep focus and plan your day, I have found this comprehensive summary of “26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I’d Known at 20”. It has all the necessary tools to achieve your goals. Good luck!

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One day, my friend Christoph Görn told me something about risk estimation. I think he learned it at IBM or so. It is a keep it simple stupid technique for tech projects and you get a quick result. I used it in my recent years as a technical program manager to judge my projects and it never failed.

tl;dr: There are three simple criteria to assess the risk of a project in a quick & easy way.

The details about the risk assessment

Conclusion: how can you use this risk assessment

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What have I done:

• Worked on the Cloud of Things Java Rest SDK
• Been happy to be ranked as a leader in the magic quadrant in Gartner Report of “Managed M2M Services“
• Shook my head about the president election in the USA.
• Proceed in my study of Data Science
• Worked on the strategy & goals for 2017’s Cloud of Things
• Worked on NB-IoT integration

Read:

• Field report of a Docker user: Docker in Production: A History of Failure
• “Because lot of the engineers and researchers in and around “IoT”, me included, are getting quite tired of these sorts of fluff “vision” and “projecting competence” pieces that don’t contribute anything new to the conversation” → Storm the Beaches! Liberate IoT Data!?
• [GER] Eine lesenswerte Kolumne zur Digitalisierung in Deutschland auf t3n.Warum digitale Zerstörung manchmal besser ist als digitale Transformation 
• Want to advance your Maker garage? → Led Tester/Current Limiter

Watched:

• Not the fanciest premium stuff, but hey, whats wrong with being proud about your work:

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Favorite slogan: So we are doomed!

What have I done:

• Worked hard on launching new Cloud of Things Features: New Cockpit App is out!
• Wonder how someone can setup a MongoDB Docker Cluster without persistence!?
• Coded on some Cloud of Things API and Client stuff Had a new record on contributing code to Github: Longest streak 7 days
  January 30 – February 5.
• Updating servers for glibc vulnerability.
• Start planning for big CoT team ramp-up. Scale from one to four teams in one month. Big experiment.
• Had a week of vacation. Practiced not to work. Successful.

Read:

• Book: Womit ich nie gerechnet habe by Götz W. Werner
• What you own vs. What you care about – Why your team should care!
• Product Strategy Means Saying No – Inside Intercom 
• The Art of Saying NO
• HowTo annoy users: The Price Of Not Using UX Patterns
• BMW are sending their software updates unencrypted

Watched:

PS: Spring starts next month – yeah!

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What have I done:

• Kicked of the first quarter 2016 with hard deadlines for Cloud of Things (watch out for CeBIT)
• Had some weekend & night shifts because of service outages of Cloud of Things. Turned out that a Gelf4J appender for Graylog caused the issues.
• Started to play with JavaFX and build a Cloud of Things Genius Client for testing purposes on CoT. (Thanks code.makery for this helpful JavaFX tutorial)
• Did a talk on our Deutsche Telekom M2M Day 2016
• I have a new record on contributing to Github

Read:

• MQTT Security Fundamentals: MQTT Payload Encryption
• Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
• The evils of chasing Scrum Velocity…

PS: A new try to give a regular update on this blog. Last year I tried a weekly recap, didn’t worked out. But I’m pretty sure that this will work ;-)

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Experiences

Some photos from different journeys and day trips.

Sports

• I did 39 bike rides, which means 1.353 km and a full time of 4,5 days on the bike. Many of them with good friends.
• I have attended my first ever Enduro MTB race in Willingen. Crashed in training (casual over the handlebar), injured wrist and chest. Completed race, but resulted 239 of 250. Not that bad with just one hand on the handlebar and I completed my personal goal.
• I did 36 runs, 155km and 18 hours in total. I also did many body workouts.
• Maintenance of the bike required my mechanic skills and I’ve learned a lot new stuff.

Business

• According to Remember the Milk I completed 1.244 Tasks.
• In March, during CeBIT, the product I’m working on, Cloud of Things, was announced to the public. In June, we were ready for service.
• We pushed two major version updates in production and worked on more fancy stuff for 2016.
• Since then we had stormy times with some service issues, but also internal re-org, technically challenging IoT projects and onboardings with customers. I learned very much about technologies like field bus systems, TCP/IP, PaaS, Docker, scalability in general.
• I dipped my toes in the field of Machine Learning, especially with Apache Spark. I will continue in 2016.
• I learned a lot about the advantages and disadvantages of leading a team in different modes (Scrum, type-of Kanban, freestyle).
• I again learned how good it felt, if customers like your product.
• I learned by experience, how hard it is to transfer from project into the line organization without any vision, leadership and guidance.
• We finished merger of two subsidiaries. We moved offices to the Telekom Campus (with Starbucks inside – Woohoo).
• I enjoyed developing my own leadership skills.

It was a very interesting year with ups and downs, but for me personal, it was a very successful year as I was very happy and had plenty of new experiences!

Happy New Year!

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• VentureBeat about what to expect next: A cloud platform for the Internet of things. (Can’t wait to launch our work)
• [GER] German language, but very good article about why a process model (1st level) is the wrong way to use scrum in large projects. It is about more about self-management and self-organisation. Die Skalierung von Scrum ist doch gar nicht das Thema! (Maybe use translated version)
• A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding the Internet of Things
• Some DevOps stuff from Deutsche Telekom for automatically hardening your server system. It starts with support for Linux OS and some applications MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache and Nginx
• Just found the UX und Tollerei Blog. Maybe a good UX resource for you: Read the latest issue
• Learning to Wireframe: 10 Best Practices. A help for every Product Owner or Product Manager
• I guess IBM Design Language is an alternative to Google Material or even Apples Design Guides
• David Fullerton, StackExchange, on Why We (Still) Believe in Private Offices. A topic I have to fight with too this year. While I believe in the advantages of private space too, I think (Scrum) teams work very well in team rooms. It fosters teamwork. A good workspace would allow easily change of the walls on the floor plan. A horror for german fire safety bureaucracy

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