1.) Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development
2.) Solutions for (Modern?) Software Development
“Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations from a 20 years-long journey”
The Traveler
- https://onmoderndev.de/en
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow
- https://www.xing.com/profile/Alexander_Thurow3
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexthurow/
[starting] Characteristics –Software Development (1)
- https://mas.to/@tastapod
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13629.The_Mythical_Man_Month
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
Warning – The anecdote
Warning – The scientific study
Experience – In real life
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkest_Hour_(film)
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/890728.The_Peter_Principle
Excerpt from the foreword of „The Peter Principle”
„[…] Death Is Nature’s Warning to Slow Down
As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence.
We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.
We see men in groups, and most of the human race, struggling for status on a treadmill to oblivion, escalating warfare and weaponry to overkill the population of the world, escalating production of power and products while polluting the environment and upsetting the life-supporting ecological balance.
If man is going to rescue himself from a future intolerable existence, he must first see where his unmindful escalation is leading him. He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence. Man must realize that improvement of the quality of experience is more important than the acquisition of useless artifacts and material possessions. He must reassess the meaning of life and decide whether he will use his intellect and technology for the preservation of the human race and the development of the humanistic characteristics of man, or whether he will continue to utilize his creative potential in escalating a super-colossal deathtrap.
Man, on occasion, has caught a glimpse of his reflection in a mirror, and not immediately recognizing himself, has begun to laugh before realizing what he was doing. It is in such moments that true progress toward understanding has occurred. This book is intended to be that mirror.
LAURENCE J. PETER
August, 1970″
Learning – Dreyfus-Model (1): Overview
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3063393-pragmatic-thinking-and-learning
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1368823.From_Novice_to_Expert
- https://mastodon.social/@PragmaticAndy
- https://www.pragprog.com/
Learning – Dreyfus-Model (2): Details
Learning – Dreyfus-Model (3): Details
Learning – Dreyfus-Model (4): Implications
Learning – Refactor Your Wetware
Excursion – Cognitive Biases (1)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_(philosophy)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrationality
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Cognitive_bias_codex_en.svg
Excursion – Cognitive Biases (2)
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nH4U-mAxMhLxB9k2RKVb5fG51Z-JBmbTV-JQGAV2Q3w/edit#slide=id.p
- https://www.meetup.com/rewe-digital-events-cologne/events/281166106
Software Development „in the wild“
Factors of influence
Excursion – Imagination?
Imagination!
Coder – „Precision“
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeMarco
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Lister
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/109246695222363813
Coder – „Guess Work”
- https://twitter.com/BruceEckel/status/1558496410034749441
- https://twitter.com/MrAlanCooper/status/748635043199782913
Coder – „Unreliable Data“ (1)
- https://toot.thoughtworks.com/@mfowler
- https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EnterpriseApplication.html
- https://twitter.com/PragmaticAndy/status/593097855520403456 (not online anymore)
Coder – „Unreliable Data“ (2)
- https://docondev.com/
- https://twitter.com/DocOnDev/status/1568286111214043138
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Conway
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway’s_law
Coder – „Unreliable Data“ (3)
Coder – „Questionable Knowledge“ (1)
- https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/595442223170256896
- https://twitter.com/ufried/status/839520650851135488
Coder – „Questionable Knowledge“ (2)
- https://twitter.com/richardadalton/status/737705680631672832 (not online anymore)
Excursion/Rant – „Normal“ humans
Excursion/Rant – „Coding“ humans
Coder – Observations
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_Architecture
- https://deanwampler.github.io/polyglotprogramming/
- https://de.slideshare.net/jbandi/there-is-something-about-javascript-choose-forum-2014
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT
Coder – Hype Driven Development
- https://www.codecentric.de/wissen/publikation/der-mythos-der-wiederverwendung
- https://twitter.com/ufried
- https://blog.daftcode.pl/hype-driven-development-3469fc2e9b22
- https://medium.com/@marekkirejczyk
Current Hype – Large Language Models (1)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot
- https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446821/microsoft-openai-github-copilot-class-action-lawsuit-ai-copyright-violation-training-data
- https://toot.cafe/@baldur
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/110326358220845614
Current Hype – Large Language Models (2)
Current Hype – Large Language Models (3)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Newton
- https://www.platformer.news/the-ai-is-eating-itself/
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunter_Dueck
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/109596189172698793
Current Hype – Large Language Models (4)
Current Hype – Large Language Models (5)
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/high-time-take-chatgpt-offline-aleksandr-tiulkanov/
- https://twitter.com/shadbush
- https://twitter.com/ziobrando
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
[continued] Characteristics – Software Development (2)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Snowden
- https://sketchingmaniacs.com/decision-making-1
Challenges (Micro)
An Example – What is (subjectively) hard?
- http://www.itworld.com/article/2833265/cloud-computing/don-t-go-into-programming-if-you-don-t-have-a-good-thesaurus.html (not online anymore)
Challenges – Naming
- https://www.digdeeproots.com/articles/on/naming-process/
- https://geek-and-poke.com/geekandpoke/2013/8/20/naming-is-key
Challenges – Simplicity
Challenges (Macro 1)
- https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin
- https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56631473-clean-craftsmanship
Challenges (Macro 2)
Challenges (Macro 3)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris
- https://www.netflix.com/de/title/81254224
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/111480913665463635
Challenges (Macro 4)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Cadwalladr
- https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy
- https://twitter.com/PhilosophyMttrs/status/1566433449455616001 (not online anymore)
The journey so far… (1)
The journey so far… (2)
- https://twitter.com/_fletchr/status/1470483342923640834 (not online anymore)
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/109246701228687486
- https://twitter.com/venkat_s/status/1518006880844632066
The journey so far… (3)
The journey so far… (4)
The journey so far… (5)
- https://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/1519910817323528195 (not online anymore)
- https://mastodon.social/@islieb/109547827536520777
The journey goes on… (1)
The journey goes on… (2)
The journey goes on… (3)
- https://twitter.com/SynStalker/status/1401607925110554633
- https://twitter.com/RealSardonicus/status/1327317912873562117 (not online anymore)
The journey goes on… (4)
Excerpt from „This is water”
[…] Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship – be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles – is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings.
They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that’s what you’re doing.
And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving…. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
I know that this stuff probably doesn’t sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational the way a commencement speech is supposed to sound. What it is, as far as I can see, is the capital-T Truth, with a whole lot of rhetorical niceties stripped away. You are, of course, free to think of it whatever you wish. But please don’t just dismiss it as just some finger-wagging Dr Laura sermon. None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy questions of life after death.
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. […]”
The journey goes on… (5)
“Solutions for (Modern?) Software Development – Approximations from a 20 years-long journey”
The Traveler
- https://onmoderndev.de/en
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow
- https://www.xing.com/profile/Alexander_Thurow3
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexthurow/
[Recap] Characteristics –Software Development (1)
- https://mas.to/@tastapod
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13629.The_Mythical_Man_Month
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
[Recap] The anecdote
[Recap] Simplicity
[Recap] Professional Software Development
The Status Quo – Observations (1)
The Status Quo – Observations (2)
The Status Quo – Observations (3)
The Status Quo – Observations (4)
- https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ozzie
The Status Quo – Observations (5)
The Status Quo – Observations (6)
The Status Quo – Observations (7)
The Status Quo – “The Cloud”
The Real Challenge – “The Cloud”
Umm, so Alex: What is IT all about?
Umm, so Alex: What is IT all about? (1)
Managing Complexity – The core questions…
Managing Complexity – What might be a fix?
Managing Complexity – More questions…
Managing Complexity – (d)MiB (1)
Managing Complexity – (d)MiB (2)
Managing Complexity – (d)MiB (3)
- https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/595442223170256896
- https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/05/23/culture-eats/
Managing Complexity – (d)MiB (4)
Managing Complexity – Check your metaphors (1)
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/113448850224885125
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/110497081496808867
Managing Complexity – Check your metaphors (2)
Umm, so Alex: What is IT all about? (2)
Managing Cognitive Load – The problem (1)
Managing Cognitive Load – The problem (2)
Managing Cognitive Load – The environment (1)
Managing Cognitive Load – The environment (2)
Managing Cognitive Load – Optimizations
Managing Cognitive Load – Optimize your attention (1)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two
- https://www.manning.com/books/the-programmers-brain
Managing Cognitive Load – Optimize your attention (2)
Managing Cognitive Load – Optimize for distractions (1)
- https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/clean-code-a-handbook-of-agile-software-craftsmanship/P200000009044/9780136083252
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44919.Working_Effectively_with_Legacy_Code
Managing Cognitive Load – Optimize for distractions (2)
Managing Cognitive Load – Optimize for distractions (3)
Managing Cognitive Load – Prevent inconsistencies
Managing Cognitive Load – Never forget…
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/109370243005090702
- https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html
- https://www.twitter.com/codeinthehole
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/110204680696519678
Umm, so Alex: What is IT all about? (3)
Human Interactions – Are you kidding me!? (1)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeMarco
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Lister
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/109246695222363813
Human Interactions – Are you kidding me!? (2)
Human Interactions – The Project Management Triangle
Human Interactions – The Software Management Triangle
Human Interactions – This thing called trust…
Human Interactions – What matters most in IT? (1)
- https://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/1519910817323528195
- https://mastodon.social/@islieb/109547827536520777
Human Interactions – What matters most in IT? (2)
Human Interactions – What matters most in IT? (3)
Human Interactions – Gelled teams (1)
Human Interactions – Gelled teams (2)
Human Interactions – Gelled teams (3)
Human Interactions – Gelled teams (4)
Human Interactions – Gelled teams (5)
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52366048-the-4-stages-of-psychological-safety
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enrosv7iLTE
Human Interactions – Gelled teams (6)
Human Interactions – Learning organization
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/110208368636432529
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/110204603652788556
- https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/110395217231779923
Umm, so Alex: What is IT all about? (4)
How Humans Tick – The way we operate…
How Humans Tick – Refactor Your Wetware
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3063393-pragmatic-thinking-and-learning
- https://mastodon.social/@PragmaticAndy
- http://www.pragprog.com/
How Humans Tick – The Dreyfus-Model (1)
How Humans Tick – The Dreyfus-Model (2)
How Humans Tick – The Dreyfus-Model (3)
How Humans Tick – The Dreyfus-Model (4)
How Humans Tick – Cognitive Biases (1)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_(philosophy)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrationality
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Cognitive_bias_codex_en.svg
How Humans Tick – Cognitive Biases (2)
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nH4U-mAxMhLxB9k2RKVb5fG51Z-JBmbTV-JQGAV2Q3w/edit#slide=id.p
- https://www.meetup.com/rewe-digital-events-cologne/events/281166106
How Humans Tick – Sustainable pace (1)
How Humans Tick – Sustainable pace (2)
How Humans Tick – Sustainable pace (3)
Ok now, Alex: What’s the goal? (1)
Ok now, Alex: What’s the goal? (2)
Ok now, Alex: What’s the goal? (3)
The journey goes on… (1)
- https://twitter.com/SynStalker/status/1401607925110554633
- https://twitter.com/RealSardonicus/status/1327317912873562117
The journey goes on… (2)
The journey goes on… (3)