15th Leadership MeetUp: Red and blue make purple

The 15th Leadership MeetUp focuses on self-organisation – instead of hierarchies, with distributed responsibility, clear structures and stronger motivation within the team.

Join us for these two presentations:

Goodbye hierarchy – welcome self-organisation.
Detlef Johannnes Mehrkens | Managing Director | s mobile Versicherungsmakler GmbH

Goodbye hierarchy – welcome self-organisation. In our team, this does not mean chaos or arbitrariness, but a conscious model for balancing freedom and responsibility. Instead of a classic hierarchy, we rely on transparent agreements, clear roles and mutual trust. We understand freedom as the opportunity to make our own decisions and shape our own paths. But it comes at a price: responsibility for results, for the team and for the consequences of our own actions. We consciously accept this price because it makes us stronger, more resilient and more capable of action in the long term. My approach: less control from above, more clarity in our interactions. We create structures that provide guidance without restricting. We distribute responsibility instead of delegating it. And we are continuously learning – in everyday life, in projects and through feedback. This creates an environment in which self-organisation is not just a buzzword, but something that is lived out in practice. With more personal responsibility, more motivation and, ultimately, more enjoyment in working together.

Developer experience as a management approach: How IT teams become drivers of transformation
Jannis Eickenroth | Head of Analytics & Customer Language | Finanz Informatik

Many transformation projects fail not because of technology or strategy. They fail because management does not focus enough on the daily work experience of the people who are supposed to drive change. Developer experience addresses precisely this issue. It looks at the organisation from the perspective of those who develop software and reveals where structures, processes and leadership enable or hinder the development of potential.

Jannis Eickenroth shows how this change of perspective can become an effective approach to organisational change. When development teams can work more freely, when exchange and shared learning become part of the culture, and when their expertise is heard in the alignment of an organisation, a dynamic emerges that extends far beyond the individual team. Passive stakeholders become active participants, and transformation becomes a process that gains energy from within.

Based on his experience in the further development of the core banking system of the Sparkassen (OSPlus), Jannis describes how developer experience can be used as a management tool to increase speed, quality and collaboration in large organisations. The presentation is aimed at managers and decision-makers who not only want to plan transformation, but also want to embed it in their organisation.

The Leadership MeetUps are aimed exclusively at managers of all hierarchies and from all specialist areas of savings banks and cooperative banks as well as data centres (Atruvia/FI), preferably “ambassadors” from both financial groups.