Twan van den Broek

It was about time, time to do a bit of cleaning in the 'house'. While working on a new design for my blog, I had a few wishes: Rolling header with pictures Leaner design More space for blog posts This is the result: the new one the old one Thanks to Louis van de Wiele, who helped me out with some scripting and CSS stuff. Hope you like it.

Celebrating 5 years of sitNL On Saturday November 23, it was time to celebrate our 5 th anniversary. For the 5 th  time SAP NetWeaver and SAP TechEd enthusiasts gathered together to share knowledge at SAP Inside Track Netherlands, sitNL in short. Or to look at it from another perspective, our little event is just the warm up for Haseenah’s delicious dinner party in the evening  Our sitNL birthday cake Some statistics The Ciber office was crowded, 62 participants joined for our SAP TechEd XPerience. Some participant statistics 52 from the Netherlands 5 from Belgium 4 from Germany 1 from Norway (Thanks for joining Njal ;-) 44 different companies 7 customer representatives 12 freelancers 14 from Ciber 3 from Accenture 3 from TCS 2 from Synerscope Some other sitNL statistics 14 high quality sessions ( agenda ) 1 entertaining  Pubquiz 1 live podcast recording by the  Dutch BI Podcast  members Re...

Thanks to Martijn Linssen  we are able to do a sitNL Tweet Analysis via TwUniverse . And for your convenience, Martijn uploaded a pdf file to our wiki page .  First some numbers 648 tweets, starting at Nov 17 20:50:27 2013 and ending at Nov 25 08:44:22 2013 on: #sitnl. That is 3.60 per hour. Top 10 Most Active Tweeters @steinermatt  (48 = 7%);  @tbroek  (48 = 7%) @roelvdberge  (46 = 7%) @martijnlinssen  (41 = 6%) @fredverheul  (39 = 6%) @jpenninkhof  (33 = 5%) @qualiture  (27 = 4%) @h_neumann  (24 = 4%) @wolf_gregor  (23 = 4%) @yonex_nl  (23 = 4%) Top 10 Most Influential (based on getting RT-ed) @roelvdberge  (50 = 19%) @tbroek  (44 = 17%) @steinermatt  (31 = 12%) @jpenninkhof  (19 = 7%) @konijnenburg  (15 = 6%) @qualiture  (13 = 5%) @cbasis  (8 = 3%) @tomvandoorslaer  (8 = 3%) @fredverheul (8 = 3%) @martijnlins...

At the Ciber Knowledge Carousel Louis van de Wiele and I had the opportunity to explain User Centered Design & Delivery to our attendees. We decided to focus on the design part and conducted a mini Design Thinking workshop. To participate actively in a workshop is a better experience than just sit back and hear what the presenters have to say. But with only 45 minutes for our session we had to push time boxing to the extreme ;-) User Centered Design & Delivery Workshop from Twan van den Broek Our challenge was to “Redesign the event experience”, how to improve the event experience for an attendee. (Hah, quite an interesting case, if I may say so, attendees of our event were able to suggest improvements that we can use for our event next year ;-) After an explanation of the challenge we kicked of with the first step. 1. Context A short interview, 2 minutes sharp, to gather personal experiences on attending events. When was the last time you visited an e...

Counting down, only a few days to go before  sitnl  kicks off. I think we have a very interesting line up at our  fifth SAP Inside Track NL . Thanks to all the speakers who have submitted a session. This year we have shortened the sessions a bit to make sure that there is enough time to get to know each other, talk to each other and enjoy. But with 8 tracks, there is still enough knowledge to absorb ;-) And we all know: You can gather new knowledge by sharing yours.

How to bring relief to Field Service Engineers? How to create a user interface for Field Service Engineers who work in highly complex environments?  How to facilitate the engineers in their daily administration work? How to replace their +20 individual applications with one new working space? How to involve the engineers during the design? How to make sure that the final application is accepted and used? The answer is of course:  Design Thinking !  Design Thinking with Field Service Engineers (SAP TechEd 2013) from Twan van den Broek A story told by Julia Dorbic from D-Labs and me at SAP TechEd 2013.

Due to the success of the previous editions, Ciber is organizing the 6 th Ciber Knowledge Carrousel on November 14 th . This year we offer tracks  for Management, Business and IT. The parallel sessions are gathered around topics like Cloud, Core, Methods, In Memory and Mobile .  You will hear about real life stories at customer situations and new developments and innovations within IT. 15 High quality sessions presented at an inspirational location, the Orangerie, in Den Bosch. The Orangerie , a former Catholic Church is situated in the center of Den Bosch, right in the middle of its beautiful shopping district and lovely canals. You can register for free at the Ciber site  or check out the agenda first. You can find me talking about: SAP TechEd recap , together with Sven van Leuken , we will talk you through the highlights from last weeks SAP TechEd on Mobile, Cloud, In Memory and User Experience. User Centered Design and Delivery , togeth...

SAP TechEd 2013 - The best but also the strangest SAP TechEd ever Together with 10 colleagues I visited SAP TechEd in November 2013. Tim Burchartz - Jaap van de Mheen - Frank Hammen - Michael Hardenbol - Steven Spronk Twan van den Broek - Roel van den Berge - Ted Castelijns - Maarten Kreijveld (Missing on the pic: Leo van Hengel and Wim Snoep, who attended one day due to busy customer schedule) Best Team CloudSitter won the SAP InnoJam on Monday with an app that monitors new born baby’s on their wellbeing. Premature babies have an higher risk on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome , that’s why we came up with a sensor that tracks heartbeat, temperature and breathing. Information is stored in a central database in which thresholds can be validated. If there is reason to warn, the mobile app sends an alarm and changes color. Time to check upon your child. Matt presenting at InnoJam. Winning InnoJam meant that we could also participate in DemoJam , the ultimate stage for ...

Here we go again, this week I will visit my 11th (!) SAP TechEd so far and for sure I haven’t had enough of it ;-) Focus of my visit to SAP TechEd has changed over the years. In the early years I filled my agenda with at much hands on sessions as possible. Lots of ABAP, some MiniApps (early mobile aspirations), SOA and later BPM. But somewhere from 2009 on it has changed to meet as much peers as possible. Sure, hands on sessions are still really valuable during the event, but meeting and discussing with experts and peers to build your network comes in handy throughout the whole year. Next to that I also like to bring something to SAP TechEd. I’ve done some talks on applying scrum to the SAP world , participated in BPM hands on sessions and as an ultimate achievement: reached SAP DemoJam stage in 2012, together with colleague Leo van Hengel. Photo courtesy SAP TechEd 2012 If you want to meet up with me this year, you can find me : Sunday SAP InnoJam ...