Imagine you are invited to a party. The host is software engineering researcher, your companion is software engineering researcher, the other guests are software engineering researchers, all of the catering staff are software engineering researchers. The conversations are about funding, collaborations with industry, lazy students, and the food is…

Modern software development (be it classical or agile) lacks of scaling. Several approaches like Scrum of scrum, SAFe, LeSS, etc. tried to overcome this issue — and I would argue they failed. However, scaling large systems is not a unique challenge for software engineering. And even within the computer science…

There is arguably no other engineering field so greatly affected by the problem of the not-invented-here syndrome (or its facet reinventing-the-wheel syndrome) like software development. This disease does not only affect the artefacts of software development (meaning code and software components), but also the software development process itself. While…

First of all: sorry for the clickbait title. Recently I discussed with a professor (not my supervisor) about UML. I said I assess my UML knowledge as sufficient but not as deep. He answered my assessment: When you are not fluent in UML, you will never work as a software…