Hands-on training for software-driven R&D.

If your project has uncertain requirements, shifting priorities, and an invisible workload, waterfall won't get you anywhere. I bring Scrum and Kanban into your reality so that familiar terms become effective routines.

Individual teams can be as good as they like: when five projects run through the same bottleneck team at once, everything stalls. Portfolio Kanban makes steering above team level visible and decidable. That's where many R&D units are stuck.

Traditional, agile, Kanban: the reality in R&D is hybrid. Instead of rolling out one method dogmatically, you design your own system: from the right elements, in the right combination, with clear interfaces to leadership and the organization. Available in one variant with and one variant without AI agents in the steering loops.

Colorful sticky notes are not an innovation process. Design Thinking is a tool for problem identification, not a creativity technique. I teach it for what it is.

Technical teams have good solutions but no language for thinking of them as a business model. Pitches stay technology-heavy, hypotheses get treated as truths. I give you the tools that turn research results into sellable offers. I deepened my grasp of the methodology behind this in the Strategyzer masterclass, directly with its originator Alex Osterwalder.

Co-trainer option: Developed together with Thomas Rauch (Leanermacher). Bookable as a tandem on request. We then train as a pair, each with his own focus.

“We need to do something with AI now” is not a use case. This training combines agile innovation methods with AI analysis of large volumes of interviews. With a real industry case in which you work your way toward the aha moment yourselves. A learning experience that sticks.

Co-trainer option: On request as a tandem with Thomas Rauch (Leanermacher), a long-time colleague from the Fraunhofer context with his own practice in innovation methodology and AI automation.

From August 2026, the AI Act applies in full. You don't need a compliance lecture — you need employees who understand AI systems, use them on their own responsibility, and recognize risks. That's what this training is for.

Coding agents, automated documentation, AI-assisted literature and data analysis: R&D teams today have tools that were unthinkable two years ago. I show you which of them hold up in day-to-day technical work, and build a first productive workflow with you.

Strategy work without an up-to-date understanding of AI misses the problem. This format combines your strategy clarification with a realistic update on what language models, agents, and embedding systems can and cannot do today. For leadership teams that don't want to navigate by buzzwords.

Strategy workshops often fail because the experienced heads talk in parallel instead of thinking together. LEGO® Serious Play® forces everyone into a shared modeling language in which no one can hide behind stock phrases. Very well suited for R&D strategy, role clarification, and future visions.