On 15.05.2025 I held my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 20-Year Journey” at JUG Darmstadt (in person and in German).
The talk’s sources can be found here, the registration page is located at:
https://www.jug-da.de/2025/05/Thoughts-on-Software-Development-Teil2
In the ensuing discussion some additional sources were mentioned:
- Tom DeMarco’s & Timothy Lister’s „The High-Tech Illusion“ in „Peopleware“
- Talk by Richard Sheridan about „Joy, Inc.“ + thread related to the book
- Gunter Dueck’s re:publica 2015 talk about „scwarm stupidity“
- Neil Postman: Technopoly
- Dan McKinley’s „Choose Boring Technology“: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
- Toot about XP’s „Circle Of Life“
- Charles Duhigg: The Power Of Habit
- Yuval Noah Harari: Nexus and his TED interview
- Laloux, Frederic: Reinventing Organizations visuell
- Uncle Bob about „The Future of Programming“
- Talk by Arlo Belshee about „Promiscuous Pairing“
- Baldur Bjarnason: „Out of the Software Crisis”
- Donella H. Meadows: „Thinking in Systems – A Primer”
- Timothy R. Clark: „The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety”
- Adam Greenfield: Radical Technologies (archive.org)
- E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops
- Third Wave: „Wohin steuert die Tech-Branche?”
- Visualization about „Communication of ideas”
- Michael Feathers: “Working Effectively with Legacy Code“ (CHOOSE 2014 in Switzerland :-))
- Evan Osnos: „Age of Ambition”
- Ryan Holiday: „Ego is the Enemy”