Software Development is currently changing so fast, that it seems hard to form any opinion on how our daily jobs will evolve (or even vanish) in the next five years. Eberhard and Hannes have built their careers on IT. But should you start a career in IT today? Should they recommend that? What has been a safe place to work is turning into the wild west. Together Hannes and Eberhard will pack their NERD survival kits.
Their theses:
– NERD will not survive (Hannes)
– Agility will come back
– Software-Architecture will not be needed
– POs will not survive
– QA, the previously ugly kids, might have a chance
– IT Security will get rich
– …
Founder of kommitment & Interim VP Engineering at Douglas.
Johannes is Founder and contributor at kommitment, and VP Engineering & Platform Operations at Douglas. A fan of tube radios and bicycles, he prefers to travel light on two wheels across Europe. While he codes in TypeScript and Go when he can, most of his time is spent with “non-deterministic processors” in management meetings. He has a soft spot for Labskaus (a Hamburg delicacy) and a healthy dose of chaos.
Head of Architecture at SWAGLab.
Eberhard Wolff has more than 20 years of experience as a software architect and consultant, with a particular focus on the intersection of business and technology. He is Head of Architecture at SWAGLab in Germany. As a speaker, he regularly presents at international conferences. As an author, he has published more than 200 articles and hosts regular livestreams on software architecture.
