“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 software developers“), it tries to outline what the presenter identified as relevant for a productive survival in the software development business (aka „the wild“). Category: „Possibly not so new - but subjectively noteworthy“.
Have you ever been wondering why we, as a whole community of experts, so often struggle to tame the beast called software development? The "Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development" talk tries to present some answers to the question why our ongoing fight is a tough one - and is likely to stay so.
Spoiler: Most of the time it is not about what your stakeholders, or you, as someone who is directly involved, think it is…
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 ConstanceDipl.-Wirtsch.-Inform. (FH), 2005 at the Leuphana Lüneburg and the University of SydneyDifferent positions: Software developer, consultant, technica...