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On 30.01.2025 I held the extended version of my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 20-Year 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-Year 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“