Germany

Product Design

Generalist Product Management

Growth Product Management

Platform Product Management

Business Development

Business Transformation

Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen

Annabell Dittrich

Digital Strategist & Product Coach

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Organisation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Negotiation

Product analytics

Product roadmap

Product strategy

User research

Team player

ChatGPT

Confluence

Jira

Mural

Miro

Empathy

Project management

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Accelerating the digital transformation of animal health through solutions that advance prevention, enable earlier detection, and support personalized care for pets.

Leading the transformation of the central IT Department towards a product organized and value driven organization. Working with clear priorities and evidence driven decisions based on agile principles and values focussing on cross-unite collaboration. 

While developing digital products for larger and traditional companies, I learnt to distinguish between useful and harmful structures. As a sociologist, I have always had a passion for systems and their interactions as well as for the strong momentum of useful structures that give orientation and direction to both individuals and organizations. After a decade of agile practice, I founded Wholy Work and its sister brands, Full Circle Trainings and Coaching. Today, we offer consulting,  implementation, training and coaching services tailored to agile organizations or those aspiring to become one:
- we provide services to start, enable and scale your transformation towards a holistically driven company 
- we train new Leaders with a focus on female leaders  
- we coach Leaders and Teams within (digital ) Ecosystems

1. The global digital animal health unit, which is currently undergoing transformation, has the vision of optimizing the user experience of veterinarians and animal owners by offering a platform-based super app store.
- I coach the global Lead AH DPP and provided enabling for his new Role
- implemented Flight Levels to improve the flow of information within the digital Unit and enable a match of top down with bottom up
- coached Scrum Master and Product Owner within the Ecosystem 
- trained Product Managers & Prpduct Owners to create the initial Product Road Map and Product Backlog

2.The collaboration between Enterprise IT Department and IT- Marketing & Sales aims to deliver internal digital products faster through a modular based platform approach.
- cultivated agile principles & values
- builded a Product Team
- improved the SCRUM flow
- involved all Stakeholders

1. The Innovation Hub of BI has the mandate to innovate on disruptive digital Products for the traditional Pharma Company BI. Ideas qualify in an E2E Process from scratch to Pilot. The Agile Coaching Chapter enables all Product Teams with Team Building, Frameworks and digital Product Development Methods:
- I did Peer-Coaching
- coached the Leadership Team
- refined the E2E Process
- provided agile Trainings

2. As a product team within BI X, you aim to validate the core assumptions of the product and develop an MVP that proves desirability, feasibility and usability, concluding with a pilot project that can be handed over to the business:
- I coached and mentored Teams through the E2E Process
- builded Teams
- facilitated workflows
- trained Teams to validate their assumptions 
- coached new Product Owners

The aim of the Bosch venture is to establish the sharing economy within home applications.The alignment of the various business units with common goals, the development an understanding of business agility in order to familiarize with market requirements and the ability to respond quickly and proactively became curtail:
- I facilitated the Start-Ups agile Transformation
- cultivated agile Principles & Values
- led the agile Community of Practice 
- aligned the Leadership Team
- coached  Product Owners

The Unit Data Intelligence forms its Product Teams around the potential of customer data and the potential to adapt and predict services based on these data. 
- led a Team of 8 People 
- facilitated the work flow
- builded the team 
- coached and developed team members

The DB’s Innovation Hub aims for acceleration of digitale Innovations and provide a digital ecosystem for Founders by providing a workshops, coaching and a dedicated 3 Month innovation program which transforms ideas into pilots .
- mentored Teams within Incubation and Acceleration of their product ideas
- owned the modules "Business Model & Value Proposition" within the innovation program  and helped Teams to define their product assumptions and test them with a Prototype in order to have them validate

1. As the internal Information Technology Provider of Deutsche Bahn, DB Systel aimed to be more adaptive and fast to react on the partners need and provide them state of the art solutions. To realize this mission DB Systel transformed from a traditional organization with project focus into a Product Team driven Network Organization:
- established supportive and adaptiv structures to shift to a network organization 
- empowered agile & self-organized Teams
- coached Teams to define their Business Model
- provided agile Trainings

Annabell Dittrich🇩🇪