157. Lean Coffee Duesseldorf – Special – 11.04.2025

At today’s Lean Coffee Duesseldorf Special we were able to welcome a special speaker, which also showed the interest of the 45 participants.

Jurgen Appelo gave a key note about his new book Human Robot Agent and we were able to discuss the content and his view on various topics with him afterwards.

The book covers a wide range of topics relating to collaboration with AI agents as well as changes in the world of work and organizations.

In today’s session we were able to address a few points, but there are many more topics and examples in the book.

For all those who could not attend today, we have recorded the key note and the subsequent discussion and you can find them below in the links section.

Here you can also find the download link for the slides that were used in today’s keynote.

Jurgen also recorded and transcribed the session via Otter, the unedited version can also be found under Links.

Thanks again to Jurgen Appelo for finding the time to share these interesting topics with us. I have also included the link to the books.

Thank you very much for today and the exciting discussion.

We will post invitations and dial-in details for Lean Coffee Duesseldorf via LinkedIn Events, the LinkedIn Group and the event page on Digital Mindchange

Input and Links:

Download Link: slides, news groups and source for the books
Download Link: recorded key note (video)
Download Link: transcription from Jurgen Appelo with otter (original without changes)
Download Link: Q & A session (video)
Info from Joerg: #book Der KI Therapeut, Klaus Bernhardt
Statement from Franz: Isn´t this insanely short sited to fire the juniors?
Jens Dreßler told that in martial arts there is a saying that the best Trainer for the black belt is a White belt..
Statement from Francois: ref to Kano model : Agile has become the must performance but framework are too rigid and slow
Statement from Sabrina: Same here @Anders. In the Renaissance there was a term called Polymath – a multiknowledge genius.
It sounds like the movie HER where he falls in love with the female AI
Statement from Francois: AI are like politicians : they are saying a lot of things throughing us in chaos…
Info from Joerg: Video: Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain | Big Think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-B_ONJIEcE
Info from Sabrina: Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences – Why intelligence isn’t one-size-fits-all
Feedback from Timo (what shirt should I choose ?): But it can ask contextual questions, what are you plan to do today.Yeah ok so my example goes in the direction of you umbrella example @Franz Gresser
Statement from Francois: the challenge of AI : help us to reduce our impacts on planet to go back inside planet boundaries…
Question from Joerg: How AI will transform / support the MoSCoW method the four-step approach to prioritizing which project requirements provide the best return on investment (ROI) ?
Hypothesis from Franz:n Everyone has to decide for themselves who they want to be. AI cannot make this decision for you. This will be the general context for any AI-Agent. If you delegate this decision, you will inevitably be unhappy.
Info from Joerg: #layer MCP Support / https://www.linkedin.com/posts/geckse_mcp-ki-agents-activity-7310792068153401344-9LlV/
#layer Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/
Info from Joerg: a simply approach are custom GPT’s an call them via @alex the lawyer, call @sabrina the creative thinker …
… but what if we think from the end with AI support – there are so many empirical values that also support AI

Barrier-free access to valid information is one of the tasks for AI agents; if a request is not dealt with, the human operator can be called in.

Thank you for your participation in the 157th Coffee Duesseldorf and the interesting topics we were able to discuss today.

The next Lean Coffee Duesseldorf – online will take place on 25.04.2025.

Anyone who is interested is welcome to join the LinkedIn Gruppe Lean Coffee Duesseldorf about which we communicate regularly.

All dates for the next Lean Coffee Duesseldorf can be found at Events on our site.

See you soon

Juergen