Craft 2025 - Alexander Thurow
Alexander Thurow
(Modern?) Software Development at Alexander Thurow - Software Development & Consulting
About Alexander Thurow

During the last twenty years Alexander Thurow (https://onmoderndev.de/en) worked at different German software providers. Currently he is a freelance software developer, consultant and speaker.

  • Born in Hamburg in 1975, currently located at Lake Constance

  • Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inform. (FH), 2005 at the Leuphana Lüneburg and the University of Sydney

  • Different positions: Software developer, consultant, technical trainer, lecturer and speaker

  • Main areas of interest: Clean Code, Refactoring, Technical Debt, knowledge transfer & mentoring, technological disruption, current affairs, books („in- and outside of the box“, see: https://onmoderndev.de/en/reading)

Talk
Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Observations from a 20 years-long journey
Topics:
agile development
code quality
legacy code
maintenance
organization
programming
psychology
race against the machine
refactoring
software development
technical debt
technical excellence
technical neglect
vital skills
Level: General
In schedule:
Pink stage
May 29, 11:55 - 12:40 CET

“If someone is taking a journey, he (or she) can tell a story. Therefore I would take my staff and hat and would choose to travel.” (Matthias Claudius, 1740-1815)The present talk was designed with exactly this, 1000-times heard (and slightly updated), German proverb in the back of the head. Initially created for a student audience („From education to employment: A requirements-set for modern softw...