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Keynote 4

With Great Trust Comes Great Responsibility

Michael Kutz

11:15 - 12:15 CEST, Thursday 18th June

How to Super Empower Teams to Continuously Deliver High Quality Software

16 years ago I worked as a junior developer on a huge project. The situation was bleak. Release trains with rigid schedules, only to be followed by long bug fixing phases. It was close to unbearable, probably nobody enjoyed working there, and the delivered quality was way below desired standards.

One year later, many things had changed in the project’s structure. Suddenly, I worked on a team that delivered high quality even before deadlines were met, which found their own creative ways to do so and had a lot of fun at work. It was like we were bit by a radioactive spider and developed superpowers.

Ever since that team, I tried to reproduce that spirit in any team I joined. To find the radioactive spider that bit us. Sometimes I succeeded, sometimes I did not.

In this keynote, I will tell you about my attempts. About things that seemed super important, but turned out to be mere details. And about details that seemed unimportant, yet turned out to be essential. About why today I think that trust is the most important and first component, and what other components are essential when building a team with the super power to continuously deliver high quality software in the most efficient way.

Check out this video from Michael Kutz to hear more about his talk on With Great Trust Comes Great Responsibility.

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2026.

Session Speakers

Michael Kutz

REWE digital, Germany

Michael Kutz is a principal engineer at REWE digital. He joined the company as one of the very first developers in 2014 and helped to establish a lean and agile development process. Michael used his passion for and experience in self-organizing teams, quality assurance, and test automation to shape these topics in the rapidly growing company.

Today, Michael is helping to shape the future of software development throughout the now much bigger REWE Group IT, and is an established speaker at international conferences.

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