If you're working in IT you probably have heard this urban legend of Rapid Application Development frameworks being the silver bullet for delivering great software at unprecedented speed....

"Stay hungry. Stay foolish!" - I guess most if not all of you have heard that famous quote from Steve Jobs last year. And besides all the controversial opinions on his personality there's one thing that few doubt about him - that he was passionate! Maybe up to an extreme level, yet he had passion for what he did - and it showed!

Has it really been ten years already? WOW…

…when I look back at my time at SAP I can say that it has been a very interesting and exciting time as well as a great learning experience. Coming from a start-up in the B2B-commerce market I joined SAP Custom Development early in 2002 just after the web bubble bursted …

Dang, that’s been more than decade ago. Guess this milestone is worth taking a moment to recap on 10 years at SAP.

Introduction

As always, I’ve been sketching out this blog post on my way back from the HQ. Those of you who know the German Autobahn may agree with me, that – at the right times – the driving experience can still translate with “Fahrvergnügen.” In more ways than not driving the 250km from Walldorf to Cologne reminds me of my days of endurance sports (mostly swimming and running.) If you do that regularly you manage to get into the zone – a state where your body has switched to auto-pilot and just keeps doing its thing. Then, your thoughts can truly lift off and you start reflecting, analyzing and positive projection.