Andreas Witt is Head of Software Development TruConnect at TRUMPF. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he studied industrial engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology As a graduated engineer, Andreas Witt founded his first B2B trading platform company during his studies, which he successfully sold. Having grown up in five countries, he then moved into the international key account management of a successful online conferencing provider, where he focused in particular on integrating the software into the business processes of large corporations In 2008, Andreas Witt switched to the product management of a leading global ERP provider. Here the enthusiasm for modern, agile development models developed and he accompanied the transformation actively.
After that, he spent four years managing the Software as a Service business at one of Europe's leading telecom and hosting providers, where agile software development was also a critical success factor. In April 2015, he took over the management of the software division Human-Machine-Interface of a leading German machine tool manufacturer. In addition, in April 2016, the direction of CAD / CAM development was added, as well as the area of new digital products. In this role, he has driven the transformation to agile software development. He has introduced a new management model, based on a separation of technical and content management, and contributed significantly to the introduction and implementation of agile planning for the entire development of machine tools including hardware. Under his leadership, the software division u. a. the digitization of machines in the context of Industry 4.0. and the vertical integration of the machines with the cloud.
What is the pop in your job? What drives you? What is your passion?
- In my career I have learned that the most important question to answer is "What problem are we solving for whom". It is also the most difficult to answer as we all have our biased opinions on what "solution we can offer that would help our customer". My job as Head Software Development at TRUMPF is to enable my team to not work based on opinions and feelings but on market data and direct feedback from market participants that helps us answer the question above.
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