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On 24.04.2025 I will be holding my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations from a 20 years-long journey” at the Seattle Software Crafters Meetup (online and in English).

The talk’s sources can be found here, the related Meetup post is located at:

https://www.meetup.com/seattle-software-craftsmanship/events/305823329

On 19.03.2025 I held my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations from a 20 years-long journey” at the ScrumTisch Darmstadt (online and in German).

The talk’s sources can be found here, the related Meetup post is located at:

https://www.meetup.com/scrumtisch-darmstadt/events/305493743

The talk has been recorded and will be available on YouTube soon.

In the ensuing discussion some additional sources were mentioned:

• Tom DeMarco’s & Timothy Lister’s „The High-Tech Illusion“ from „Peopleware“: https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/109711257008472448
• Gunter Dueck about „estimations (aka: guessing)“: https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/109596189172698793
• E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops
• Neil Postman: Technopoly
• Dan McKinley „Choose Boring Technology“: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
• Talk by „Richard Sheridan“ about „Joy, Inc.“ + thread related to the book
• Thread related to Nicole Perlroth’s (NYT) cyber weapon’s arms race book: https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/111359073002581152
• Richard Clarke’s „Cyberwar“ book (2010)

On 17.03.2025 I held the extended version of my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations from a 20 years-long journey” at the JUG Munich (offline and in German).

The talk’s sources can be found here, the related Meetup post is located at:

https://www.meetup.com/java-user-group-munchen-jugm/events/306569788/

The event location was:

Eden Hotel Wolff
Arnulfstraße 4
80335 München

Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=48.14175%2C%2011.559352

On 12.03.2025 I held the extended version of my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations from a 20 years-long journey” at the Software Architecture Meetup Nuremberg (offline and in German).

The talk’s sources can be found here, the related Meetup post is located at:

https://www.meetup.com/software-architecture-meetup-nurnberg/events/306217340

The event location was:

CodeCamp:N
Solgerstraße 18
90429 Nürnberg

Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/i7oCbBsbykSUPw3M7

During the talk additional sources were introduced to the audience and some sources were mentioned in bilateral discussions after the talk:

• Clark, Timothy R. Dr.: The 4 Stages Of Psychological Safety
• Uwe Friedrichsen: „Software – It’s not what you think it is – part 6“
• Gunter Dueck about „Estimations“: https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/109596189172698793
• Gunter Dueck’s re:publication 2015 talk „Schwarmdummheit“: https://youtu.be/rc37ov1iVFQ?feature=shared
• Adam Greenfield: Radical Technologies (archive.org)
• E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops
• Neil Postman: Technopoly
• Adam Grant: Think Again

On 30.01.2025 I held the extended version of my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations from a 20 years-long journey” at JUG Stuttgart (offline and in German).

The talk’s sources can be found here, the related Meetup post is located at:

https://meetu.ps/e/NLTNH/PkQNm/i

The event location was:

Optica Abrechnungszentrum Dr. Güldener GmbH
Marienstraße 10
70178 Stuttgart

Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dpjT3muW92RQRkT7A?g_st=im

During the talk additional sources were introduced to the audience:

• Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design: https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
• Gunter Dueck about „Estimations“: https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/109596189172698793
• Uncle Bob about „The Future of Programming“: https://youtu.be/ecIWPzGEbFc
• Dan McKinley „Choose Boring Technology“: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
• John Allspaw about „Postmortems“: https://youtu.be/xA5U85LSk0M

On 04.12.2024 I held the extended version of my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations from a 20 years-long journey” at JUG Karlsruhe.

The talk’s sources can be found here and the related Mastodon post is located at:

https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/113516634871535994

The event location was:

Synyx GmbH & Co. KG (Gläserne Softwarefabrik)
Brauerstraße 12a
76135 Karlsruhe

Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/A9johyNBi7Uh9xz87

During the talk additional sources were introduced to the audience:

• Thread related to „Kent Beck – Extreme Programming Explained“
• Toot related to the XP „Circle Of Life“
• Talk by „Richard Sheridan“ related to „Joy, Inc.“ + thread
• Talk by „Arlo Belshee“ related to „Promiscuous Pairing“
• Thread related to „Baldur Bjarnasson – Out Of The Software Crisis“
• Thread related to „Timothy Clark – The 4 Stages Of Psychological Safety“
• Thread related to „Felienne Hermans – The Programmer’s Brain“