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Win a free place in our Ideation Workshop!
Ho Ho Ho! Start the new year with fresh ideas – birkle IT AG offers you a customized ideation workshop! Based on our proven Design Thinking methodology, we support you in realizing your business goals!
Fill out the adjacent contact form and tell us more about your upcoming IT project, such as legacy decommissioning, mainframe modernization, software development, cloud computing, AI integration or similar.
We will award a free workshop to one of the participating companies, which will be conducted online and take approximately one day. Contents of the workshop are
- Creation of a detailed user-centered product vision
- Elaboration and benchmarking of the problem
- Consolidation of the idea into a vision document with use cases, a proposed implementation approach and a preliminary estimate
We will select the company with the most exciting challenges and the greatest potential for improvement or development from all participants. We will present the winner on 17.12.24.
We’ll keep our fingers crossed for you!
Take part until 13.12. and win!
Ideation Workshop with Design Thinking approach
Design Thinking is a user-centered innovation process for generating new ideas and moving forward from an idea to a concrete vision. The core components are
- Inspiration & benchmarking
- Empathy
- Divergent and convergent thinking
- Prototyping & implementation
Workshop as 1st step to a solution
1. Ideation Workshop – product vision and roadmap
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- Creating a detailed user-centered vision of the product/solution
- Applying a design thinking approach to elaborate the problem that the solution should solve and to benchmark this problem
- Consolidating the idea into a vision document with high-level use cases (epics), a proposed implementation approach and a preliminary estimate
2. Requirements: product backlog
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- Refinement and subdivision of the higher-level use cases into more developer-friendly sizes that are useful for development
- Creation of an initial backlog and selection for MVP
- Determination of implementation team and effort based on detailed use cases
- Results in a technical design document and a refined effort estimate
3. UI/UX design
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- Creation of wireframes to describe the screens and the interactions with the user
- Creating a design document that defines the design language (e.g. colors, fonts, layout of controls, etc.) and core screens
- The output is a design document with detailed main screens and examples of sub-controls
4. MVP
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- Start of development to implement an MVP solution (Minimal Viable Product), build a basic pipeline, unit tests, functional tests, cloud infrastructure and solution using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe Essential) approach
- The selection of features is based on the selection of the customer’s product owner and is guided by estimates of use cases and the solution architect.
- The output is a workable solution
5. Testing and refinement
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- Planning and refining the backlog for the deliverable product
- Expanding and improving the development pipeline, unit tests and functional tests
- More comprehensive user tests for function and customization
- Transfer to a dedicated operations team
why birkle IT
big enough to deliver, small enough to care!
With locations in Lithuania and Estonia, we bring the undisputed pioneers and
market leaders in digital infrastructure to our customers.
Get the best out of your software project with Bestshoring
Relocating work processes or projects has long been a trend. However, with a changing global economy, it is becoming increasingly important to only invest into reliable, secure environments. With birkle Bestshoring, you get the best of nearshoring and security: you stay in Europe and benefit from top talents in estonia and lithuania.
What’s in it for you?
Scalability & flexibility
Thanks to our international setup, we can adapt our teams quickly and individually.
Stability & security
The teams remain stable with experienced experts and solution architects as well as exclusive EU shoring.
Efficient time & cost management
Optimum project management with maximum flexibility – that is modern software development.
Satisfied Customers – strong partners
We are proud to implement over 20 ongoing IT projects a year for various major and innovation customers. In addition to innovation, we focus above all on long-term, partnership-based cooperation.
“The birkle experts convince in our projects by provident the highest quality, reliability and punctuality – doing so at fixed rates. The well founded insurance-specific know-how, high innovative strength and distinct customer proximity were a pleasant suprise – therefore anytime again.”
Dr. Ralf Schneider, (until 2023) Group CIO, Allianz SE
We are birkle IT
birkle IT AG was founded in 2016 by Jörn Halbauer with the vision of implementing IT projects more efficiently and accelerating the digitalization of companies in the D-A-CH market. As a team of over 150 people, we combine the vision of a technologically strong, future-proof European market economy with the belief that only great teamwork can achieve this vision.
That is why, we, as a Great Place to Work
particular value our employee retention.
Terms and conditions
1. General
These are the general conditions of participation (hereinafter “Conditions of Participation”) for the promotion (hereinafter “the promotion”) organized by birkle IT AG (hereinafter “the organizer”). By participating in the Promotion, participants expressly accept these Terms and Conditions of Participation.
2. Eligibility to participate
All natural persons who have reached the age of 18 are eligible to participate. Employees and relatives of the organizer as well as their respective subsidiaries and affiliated companies are excluded from participation.
3. Promotion period
The promotion begins on 19.11.2024 and ends on 13.12.2024.
4. Participation
Participation takes place by filling out the online form and then confirming the email address.
5. Selection criteria
The winner will be selected by birkle IT AG employees. The criteria for selection are the business challenges with the greatest potential for improvement or development with the help of innovative IT.
6. Notification of the winner
The winner will be notified by telephone (if a number has been provided) or email. The deadline for accepting the prize is 31.03.2025.
7. Prizes
One Ideation Workshop will be awarded, which will be held on one day via video call. A cash payment of the prize is excluded.
8. Data protection
The organizer collects and processes participants’ personal data exclusively for the purpose of running the competition and sending out regular newsletters as well as current offers and other marketing materials from the birkle IT AG. The data will not be passed on to third parties.
9 Liability
The organizer is not liable for damages that may arise due to errors, delays or interruptions in transmission, malfunctions of the technical equipment and service, incorrect content, loss or deletion of data, viruses or in any other way during participation in the promotion, unless such damages are due to gross negligence or intent on the part of the organizer.
10 Miscellaneous
Legal recourse is excluded. The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies.
11. Contact
If you have any questions or complaints in connection with the competition, please contact marketing@birkle-it.com.
12. Severability clause
Should individual provisions of these conditions of participation be invalid or unenforceable or become invalid or unenforceable after the start of participation, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining conditions of participation. The invalid or unenforceable provisions shall be replaced by suitable provisions that come closest to the purpose of the invalid or unenforceable provisions.
Status: 20.11.2024
