Alexander Thurow
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." (H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956)
Überlingen, Germany
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During the last twenty years Alexander Thurow (https://onmoderndev.de/en) worked at different German software providers. Currently he is a freelance software developer 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 and mentoring, technological disruption, books („in- and outside of the box“), current affairs.
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Thoughts On (Modern?) Software Development - Observations from a 20 years-long journey
“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“.
So, did you ever wonder 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. Spoiler: most of the time it is not about what you think it is…
For more details, see: https://onmoderndev.de/en/talks/#Thoughts
For the talk’s sources, see: https://onmoderndev.de/en/talks/sources/#Thoughts
Alexander Thurow
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." (H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956)
Überlingen, Germany
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