Jens Wagener

The itemis blog

Jens Wagener is chairman of the itemis management board.

Lego, mbse, systemsengineering, agile, newwork

How Playing with Lego Boosts Your Systems Engineering Game

Navigating the intricate world of systems engineering can feel like solving a complex puzzle. Modern projects are a crazy mix of hardware, software, user interfaces, and backend systems that need to click together like pieces of a well-crafted jigsaw.

by Jens Wagener

4 min. reading time
Career

A little story about good and bad job advertisements

One of the best job advertisements in the world came from British polar explorer and adventurer Ernest Shackleton, when looking for a team for his next Antarctic expedition:

by Jens Wagener

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

itemis + TypeFox = Xtext!

As you might have noticed there was a very crucial change in the Eclipse Xtext project at the beginning of last year. Our colleagues in Kiel have decided to leave itemis and have founded their own company, TypeFox.

by Jens Wagener

2 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

Why you should know David Harel and his connection to YAKINDU Statechart Tools

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Many people influenced our work over the past years, among them masterminds like Martin Fowler, Ken Schwaber, Tom DeMarco, to name just a few.

by Jens Wagener

4 min. reading time
Software Development

Are physicists smarter than software developers?

Did you spend last weekend like we did? Sitting on your couch, watching the new season of CBS' The Big Bang Theory? Then you know that the great Dr. Sheldon Cooper is anything but modest about his intellect. Can you match wits with him and prove that software ...

by Jens Wagener

3 min. reading time