I work in software development.
Memos Exploring GenAI Series of memos about coding assistance on martinfowler.com, started in July 2023
Podcast Discussing AI for software delivery Guest on the Software Engineering Daily podcast, Aug 2023
Video How Cognitive Biases Affect our Software Architectures Dec 2022 at Yow! Australia
Video Cognitive Biases and Agile Architecture Sep 2022 at Agile Meets Architecture, Berlin
Video Redefining confidence: Cognitive biases in a developer's life Nov 2020 at XConf Brasil
Video Redefining confidence: Cognitive biases in the architect's life Nov 2019 at O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference
Slides "Redefining confidence: Cognitive biases in the architect's life"
Podcast Discussing "Mitigating cognitive bias when coding" Thoughtworks Technology Podcast, May 2022
Podcast Discussing "Starting out with sensible default practices" Thoughtworks Technology Podcast, with Kief Morris, July 2022
Podcast Discussing Cultivating architecture principles CASE podcast, August 2020
Video Cultivating Architecture Dec 2019 at The Lead Developer conference, Berlin
Video Cultivating Architecture May 2019 at CraftConf (with Martin Fowler)
Slides Cultivating Architecture May 2019 at CraftConf
Slides Cultivating Architecture with Principles Nov 2019 at O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference
Article On Pair Programming January 2020
Video To pair or not to pair? Nov 2019, Codemotion Berlin
Video To pair or not to pair? July 2018, XConf New York
Slides To pair or not to pair
Thoughts on how to use software documentation to improve communication in an agile development team.
Video The Lead Developer London (2017)
Slides We're Agile, we don't do documentation
Article 4 Goals of agile documentation July 2018
Print Gute Teamkommunikation braucht mehr als nur selbsterklärenden Code Objektspektrum 6/2018
I summarized all the things I read about programmer stereotypes over the years, and added some of my own thoughts and conclusions.
Article Born for IT - How the image of software developers came about 2016
Video Born for IT? How the image of software developers came about 2016, GOTO Berlin
Slides Born for IT.
A write-up of a time when I was part of a team inheriting a codebase from another team - how we approached it, some lessons learned.
Article Lessons from inheriting another team's codebase April 2018
Artikel Auf Deutsch bei entwickler.de November 2018