On 06.11.2025 I held my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 20-Year Journey” at codecentric AG’s Berlin office (in person and in German).
The talk’s sources can be found here, the Meetup event page here:
https://www.meetup.com/codecentric-berlin/events/311505419
The event location was:
codecentric AG
Köpenicker Str 31 · Berlin
Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=52.50805%2C%2013.427258
In the ensuing discussion after the talk some additional sources were mentioned:
- Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister in „Peopleware (re-visited)“: „The High-Tech Illusion“
- Talk by „Richard Sheridan“ related to „Joy, Inc.“ + thread about the book
- Robert C. Martin in „Clean Agile“: The XP „Circle Of Life“
- Uwe Friedrichsen: „Thoughts on AI and Software Development“ (very good analysis about the state of things in AI in the year of 2025)
- Uwe Friedrichsen: „Solving the Wrong Problem”
- Uwe Friedrichsen: “Simplify” + “The Continuous Amnesia Issue” + more
- Michael Lewis: „The Undoing Project“
- Michael Lewis: „The Fifth Risk“
- Baldur Bjarnason: „The Intelligence Illusion“
- Baldur Bjarnason: „Out of the Software Crisis“
- Joseph Weizenbaum: „Plug & Pray“ (documentary)
- Gunter Dueck’s re:publica 2015 talk about „Swarm Stupidity“
- Charles Duhigg: „The Power Of Habit“
- Yuval Noah Harari: „Nexus“ und sein TED interview
- The Anatomy of AI: https://anatomyof.ai/
- Frédéric Laloux: Reinventing Organizations
- Frédéric Laloux: „Reinventing Organizations visuell“
- Joana Breidenbach & Bettina Rollow: „New Work Needs Inner Work”