Don’t Memorize Your Presentation

I don’t remember where it was but somewhere in the Internet somebody recommended to carefully and intensely learn any presentation you want to give. A point I absolutely agree with. But a commenter answered that presentations after to much learning and preparation look stiff and like theater. I didn’t get that. It never happened for [...]

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My Exit Strategy

The last months have been extremely busy. Three different projects causing lots of work and sometimes worries, three different conferences I attended as a speaker and various talks at the local JUG. This made it hard to actually think about what I want to do next year. Now all the busy stuff is over (although [...]

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When will Software Development be up to Industrial Standards?

From time to time I hear people complain, that the Software Development industry is immature. Sometimes they even propose software development should be more like a factory, producing software on some kind of production chain, highly standardized, highly automated. They complain the level of reuse isn’t high enough. I certainly agree, that we have a [...]

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