Alexander Thurow presents - Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development

Alexander Thurow presents - Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development

Abstract:
“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 in mind, 1000-times-heard (and slightly updated) German proverb.

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“).

Have you ever wondered why, as a community of experts, we often struggle to tame the beast called software development?

The "Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development" talk aims to provide some answers to the question of why our ongoing fight is a challenging one.

Spoiler: Most of the time it is not about what your stakeholders, or you as someone who is directly involved, think it is…

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 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 and mentoring, technological disruption, books ("in- and outside of the box“, see: https://onmoderndev.de/en/reading), current affairs

Agenda (timezone in BST):

18:45 - 19.00 - Event Welcoming & Networking
19:00 - 20:20 - Talk
20:20 - 20:30 - Event Questions & Networking
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