About me
About Me
I am a solution and visual thinker product manager who has spent 20 years bringing developers and business people together an 12+ years working on different teams in an agile environment. I am a skilled modeler with a passion for diagramming and an addiction to optimizing flow.
I am not just passionate about solving problems but finding the right problems to solve is one of the key things for me. Probably that’s why I've been an ambassador of strategic Domain-driven Design (DDD) for more than 6 years now, which also makes it essential for me to be able to develop a shared understanding be it at work or in personal life.
Contact me on LinkedIn or Facebook, or check out my meetup group's page.
Find my speaker profile here: https://sessionize.com/zsofia-herendi/
Achievements
Speaker at various conferences - see Meetup & Conference page.
Ran several business model and customer focused trainings for different companies
Went to EventStorming Master Class in Milan (Italy) and learned about this powerful technique of domain discovery and health assessment of systems. I brought the knowledge home directly from the inventor, Alberto Brandolini from Milan.
Guided more teams to work in an agile way and helped them learn the different techniques and practices whilst working with them closely together as a Product Owner
Led the official agile community of practice at a former company I worked with and also established the format of agile trainings there
Founder of the DDD community in Hungary: Domain-driven Design Hungary
Co-organizer of Virtual DDD meetup and community
Participated on more agile conferences and trainings
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Strengths
Communication: People exceptionally talented in the Communication theme generally find it easy to put their thoughts into words. They are good conversationalists.
Activator: People exceptionally talented in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. They are often impatient.
Analytical: People exceptionally talented in the Analytical theme search for reasons and causes. They have the ability to think about all the factors that might affect a situation.
Woo: People exceptionally talented in the Woo theme love the challenge of meeting new people and winning them over. They derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection with someone.
Harmony: People exceptionally talented in the Harmony theme look for consensus. They don’t enjoy conflict; rather, they seek areas of agreement.
Conferences - attendance, speakership:
2025 - coming soon! 😎
2024 - Leveling up with business capabilities (hands-on)
2019 - FIND THE COMMON LANGUAGE BETWEEN BUSINESS AND IT! (hands-on)
Craft Conference - Budapest
2025 - coming soon! 😎
2022 - Domain-driven Design and Team Topologies (workshop)
Compass Tech Summit - Budapest
2023 - organizing speaker lineup
2022 - Build great products by learning more about your end users (workshop)
2021 - DDD EU Open Space
2020 - Modeling with business capabilities - hands-on, DDD for Domain Experts & Product Owners - foundation talk
2019 - Modelling Investment Banking - hands-on, Start your own DDD Meetup - open space
2022 - Improving Your Model by Understanding the Persona Behind the User (talk)
2021 - Business Modeling, Business Capabilities (2 workshops)
2019 - Modeling with business capabilities (hands-on session)
2018 - Encouraging DDD Curiosity as a Product Owner - slides, talk
2017 - Advanced Strategic Domain-driven Design - full day workshop
Agile Conference - US
Agile 2022 (Nashville) - Modelling Business Architecture & Team Topologies with Event Storming
Agile 2021 (virtual) - Transforming business models in the pandemic
Distributed Domain-driven Design Day - virtual
15th May - 2020
O'Reilly - London
2018 - Designing autonomous teams and services - hands-on
