On 24.11.2025 I held my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 20-Year Journey” at the JUG Switzerland in Zurich (in person and in English).
The talk’s sources can be found here, the Meetup event page can be found here:
https://www.jug.ch/html/events/2025/modern-software-development.html
The event location was:
PH Zürich, Lagerstrasse 2, 8090 Zürich
Building LAB, Room H014
Travel instructions: https://phzh.ch/en/About-us/Campus-PH-Zurich/Location
During the talk and in the ensuing discussion some additional sources were mentioned:
- Toot: „If your management model assumes your employees can’t be trusted, you are in big trouble. If it also assumes that the future is predictable, you are in even bigger trouble.“
- Toot: „Smart home enthusiast vs. software developer“
- Talk by „Richard Sheridan“ about his book „Joy, Inc.“ + my thread related to the book
- John Allspaw: „How your systems keep running day after day”
- Robert C. Martin in „Clean Agile“: The XP „Circle Of Life“
- Uwe Friedrichsen: „Thoughts on AI and Software Development“ (very good analysis about the current state of AI in the year 2025)
- Uwe Friedrichsen: „Solving the Wrong Problem“
- Uwe Friedrichsen: „AI and the Ironies of Automation – Part 1″
- Uwe Friedrichsen: „Simplify“ + „The Continuous Amnesia Issue“ + more
- Jonathan Blow: „Preventing the Collapse of Civilization“
- Baldur Bjarnason: „The Intelligence Illusion“
- Baldur Bjarnason: „Out of the Software Crisis“
- Kent Beck: „Extreme Programming Explained”
- Gunter Dueck’s re:publica 2015 talk on the topic of „Swarm Stupidity“ (german)
- Donella Meadows: „Thinking in Systems”
- Roger McNamee: „Zucked”
- Nicole Perlroth: „This is how they tell me the world ends“ (great book with supposedly bad title, about what „attack surface“ in IT really means)