It was a good week and an even better weekend. As prioritized I spent a chunk of my time facilitating, informing and preparing the rollout of the revised five principles, internally and externally, always with the intention to unblock the team.

What happened:

  • Digital-readiness connected:
    • Prepared and co-ran the interdepartmental working group about the revised five principles, explaining and giving context about the changes. It went smooth, and thanks to a methodologic sound development process it was easy to react to questions with evidence from user-research or context on decisions. Felt good!
    • The “Sachverständigenrat – Frühjahrsgutachten 2025” did a shoutout for our policy support of the Stromsteuer-Sprint. They also acknowledge, that digital-readiness needs to be a top priority from the first moment on. Reaching it by relying on the power of interdisciplinary teams, as well as all the gained knowledge of the already existing implementation.
    • Contributed to a white-paper on interoperability, while it is helpful to do the thinking and writing I still struggle to see the real impact of these papers, I prefer delivery as the strategy.
    • Did some high-level road mapping with Dirk, focus was on the ramping up of the interoperability national contact point.
  • Other things:
    • Listened to the quarterly connect of the DigitalService, looking at our financial data, it is important to reflect also on the business site of things. Gave some feedback afterward, as I thought the connection between the numbers and our vision / mission could be more emphasized.
    • Had an active role in the company-wide Lunch and Learn about LLMs and our use-cases. Over 50 people participated online and offline. I enjoyed the interested and energy in the room and loved to learn about the use-cases and experiences of Magdalena, Jana, Marco, and Hendrik. Joshua and I also shared what we learned during some hours of “PDF-Fun”. Might upload the slides later.
    • Participated in a retrospective on our approaches and process surrounding data security and compliance.
    • Had an awesome Bronnbacher Weekend, it is the alumni weekend of a scholarship about art and culture I had the pleasure to participate in during my studies at the KIT. It was great catching up with friends and fellow alumni. As always we also spent a day with an artist, diving into the art head first. Maximilian Borchardt did an inspiring talk about photography and his views on photography series. Enlightened by the input we spent a day in Mannheim with our phones exploring a personal topic through the lens.
    • Did not do much cycling, and the upcoming week does not look any different.

Next weeks priorities:

It is a short week, I will be off Thursday and Friday, it will be packed.

  1. Catch up on some sleep and watch my energy level, this are going to be three fast paced days.
  2. Looking back and forward in a strategy meeting with our project partners. While also focusing on the here and now - we are still in the process of shipping the new five principles.
  3. Supporting our project partners with their talk at this year’s re:publica: Digital first - auch im Gesetzbuch.
  4. Continuing thinking ahead and about the midterm roadmap to inform our planning the week afterwards.