As already the Weepies said in their very own way, things inevitably change. Nearly 8 years ago, I joined one of the best companies I've always known and I probably will know in the future. Working for netzkern was not only fun and a great experience, the team became somewhat like family to me during these years. The things I learned in my various roles and having very different responsibilities were more valuable to me than most other things I came across in my life (including the years at school, university and in all other educational programs combined). But as all great times come to an end, so does this endeavor.
Tomorrow I will start my new job at Avanade, an international IT consulting company founded by Microsoft & Accenture. I feel a little bit like the former Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, Bill Gates, these days (see the great video "Bill Gates' last full day at Microsoft"). As you can imagine, this change has been in the planning for quite some time now. The newly formed steering committee for the netzkern.systems business unit is staffed with some of the finest guys I've known and there is no doubt that Thomas, Markus, Peter and Alex will lead the team into a successful future.
I also don't want to neglect the fact that it had a transforming effect on all of them. Now that my former responsibilities have been distributed among them and the technical expert teams led by Mattes and Phil, there seems to be an even larger desire to move things forward. Maybe, this change is one of the most important things that will ever happen to netzkern, as it literally kickstarted a process I tried to implement for nearly 2 years now, but it always got stuck somehow between large projects and daily activities. Putting a newly formed team in charge of the work I did for almost 4 years not only distributes the work on more shoulders, it also forces everyone to take additional responsibilities and to grow into new roles, while finally removing me as bottleneck. Of course, there are challenges, but I'm convinced that everyone will do his very best to not only keep things going well, but to finally overcome the challenges we started to move on when I was still part of the team.
The only thing I've left to say at this point is Thank You. I want to thank my partners, Thomas and Daniel, for their support and for some of the best years of my life. I also want to thank my team for all the great experiences we had together - I will definitely miss each and everyone of you and I hope to see you soon.
Of course, I will not leave work unfinished that I started. Although my blog will shortly move to www.juliusganns.com/blog, I will continue to publish the missing pieces of my SharePoint vs. Sitecore series here, as well as under the new URL.

Have a great time,
Julius