Product Ownership

Norway's sports system, Brailsford's marginal gains, and Kaizen and Agile methods show how change management succeeds: motivation, interdisciplinary thinking, and small continuous improvements lead to …...

How simulated Sprint overruns, cancellation gates, and budget pressure expose hidden development cost — and why the cheapest feature can carry the steepest relative risk.

A practical look at portfolio risk for software backlogs: the four risk layers — development, market, component, global — and what happens to business value when each one fires.

Business Value Floor 95 for software projects: the 5th percentile of simulated outcomes. Value at Risk reframed as reliably achievable value.

FHS is a small Python library that simulates 10,000 futures per feature hypothesis so Product Owners can prioritise on a numerical decision basis — expected value, Business Value Floor 95, worst case, …...

Book recommendation: a concise review of Uwe Vigenschow's 'Lernende Organisationen' highlighting practical takeaways for organisational learning.

I had the opportunity to participate in the Microsoft AI Tour, and it was exciting to see firsthand the experiences shared from real-life projects, particularly the Zava demo project. Microsoft AI …...

Insights from Developer Summit 2025 in Berlin: DDD, legacy modernization, responsible architecture and AI.

Introducing the Free GDPR Compliance Helper The European Union has introduced an excellent resource: a free GDPR compliance tool. → Discover the tool. To use it in a DevOps pipeline is mentioned here: …...

I had the opportunity to participate in Data in Motion Day 2024 in Frankfurt, analyzing stream processing from a business analysis and enterprise architecture perspective. One of my primary takeaways …...

What is an increment? - A Business Analysis Perspective Agile methods are standard in software development and are expected to produce results. The Scrum guide defines these results as increments. A …...

Software architecture documentation importance analyzed through historical perspective. Business analysis of knowledge preservation by Stefan Zils.

In January, I mentioned that the European Union offers a free GDPR compliance checker. As an business analyst , I analyze how business process automation can streamline compliance requirements …...

Website Evidence Collector The European Union announced a tool for GDPR compliance checks for websites. This tool can be used manually, in an automated deployment process, and security vulnerability …...

Why Hugo? The decision to switch from WordPress to a static website engine like Hugo was easy. Once, my provider complained about the version of PHP and wanted to charge me extra for running an older …...

Can a star chef act agile? It is challenging to explain agile or lean methods to customers or outsiders. In the agile environment, many examples and metaphors from software development dominate.

An honorary german article, for the Association of Founders and Self-Employed Germany (VGSD e.V.). - The report covers the possibilities of self-power generation for small and medium-sized companies …...

Arc42 software architecture documentation framework review by Stefan Zils, Software Architect at Eifel42.dev. Essential for enterprise architecture and requirements analysis.

Software Architecture analysis of blockchain technology for enterprise systems. Business analysis perspective on DLT implementation by Stefan Zils, Eifel42.dev