Hi,

I am Finn. I am a “Director of Research and Development” at Rohde & Schwarz in our Marine-Competence-Centre North.

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And as there are many ways to build what we consider a “good” product – most certainly, there is not the one way – there are many perspectives, too. Here I share some of my own perspectives:

Read Blog Posts

• My 20 months leadership journey. (Sept, 2022). This is a reflection of 1.5 years in the role of a “Director of Engineering” at MOIA, my first full time and (with this title) explicit leadership role.
• MOIA’s hybrid working model – a nice post about our 9 month journey to a remote working model which values focused work at home with less hours in commute as much as real-human interaction in an office.
• MOIA Ice Cream Model of Growth and Career
• Our Learnings from Five Months Without Production Feedback
• Moin MOIA – This is about leaving ThoughtWorks and starting a new job at MOIA
• A Star Trek Fan-Fiction Retrospective – including a template to download.
• Don’t let Architecture Astronauts Scare You – this post takes you on a journey to almost 20 years of software development
• Service Integration – this is a quick read about anti-patterns in service integrations via data lakes
• Dimensions of Quality – this is a post-series (5 parts) which encapsulates my entire holistic approach to quality
• Quality Mindset at ThoughtWorks Germany – „QA is so much more than testing.“ But what exactly?
• How To: Consumer Driven Contract Tests
• A guide to testing micro services
• Are We Only Test Manager? – An English translation of the German Otto.de Blog Post.
• Process Automation and Continuous Delivery at OTTO.de
• Testing with Frank – This is my oldest blog post about one of the first iOS automation frameworks (from 2014)

Watch Conference Talks

• The Road to Autonomous Driving: Testing Innovations at MOIA. Ready to explore Autonomous Driving? Learn here how “everything old is new again” also in testing, even with the fancy buzzword of #AD
• Better, Faster, Stronger – Delivering High Quality Products – Opening Keynote at TestCon in 2023. It is incorporating learnings from Covid/Lockdown times, enhanced by DevOps practices and in a polished look based on the 2018 version.
• How to reinvent your business model when Covid f***ed you. – or: The Business Value of “Being Agile”
• Quality Titans – How much Quality do you need at what point of time in your project? How do you get the this level? And how much is too much?
• Better, Faster, Stronger – Delivering High Quality Products – this is my talk about all the steps a QA can be involved throughout the story life cycle (2018)
• The Business Value of Quality – this talk is about finding the right balance between speed and quality
• Building a High Quality Product – this recording is from the DevOps conference DevOne in Linz

Listen to Podcasts

• Technology Labs Podcast find out why one great performing autonomous car can master autonomous driving. This opposed to a fleet of cars that are ‘semi’-autonomous.
• In Quality Bits by Linda Zubyte, we talked about removing the QA column in a team, driving change and nurturing fun in teams.
• Podcast about the journey to continuous deployments at Otto.de
• Latest trends in Software Feature Development: A/B Tests, Canary Releases, Feedback Loops

Still not enough?

Watch the moderation of a panel discussion on “How to Lead Testing Teams and Foster a Learning Culture“

All thoughts and opinion are my own. They are intended to be inspiration, not a template or strict guide. As with all people, also my thoughts and opinions may change over time. Hence, please take this material as contemporary based on when it was created.

All the best,
Finn