ThoughtWorks evening events in Berlin and Frankfurt

Join ThoughtWorks in Berlin or Frankfurt for an evening event with speakers including Martin Fowler, Erik Dörnenburg and Wolf Schlegel. Come see us for a couple of presentations, have a drink and some food and network with us in the community.

Presentations

Software Design in the 21st Century by Martin Fowler
In the last decade or so we‘ve seen a number of new ideas added to the mix to help us effectively design our software. Patterns help us capture the solutions and rationale for using them. Refactoring allows us to alter the design of a system after the code is written. Agile methods, in particular Extreme Programming, give us a highly iterative and evolutionary approach which is particularly well suited to changing requirements and environments. Martin Fowler has been a leading voice in these techniques and will give a suite of short talks featuring various aspects about his recent thinking about how these and other developments affect our software development.

Dos and don'ts of Continuous Integration and Delivery by Wolf Schlegel
Continuous Integration and Delivery can add tremendous value to software development by reducing feedback loops and providing the ability to release software on demand. Wolf has experienced many dos and don'ts of CI/CD in real life projects and shares some of his experiences in his talk.

Lean for enterprise architecture by Erik Dörnenburg
Following the success of agile and lean principles for individual projects we are now seeing interest in applying the same principles across the entire enterprise. This brings agile and lean thinking to architecture groups, and raises questions around enterprise architecture and governance.
In this session Erik introduces the concept of evolutionary architecture and then discusses questions such as: How can an architecture strategy be executed in a lean context? What about conformance? And: where do the architects sit in a lean enterprise?

Speakers

Martin Fowler, renowned author, software consultant and speaker - Martin brings two decades of experience helping corporations utilise object technology for mission-critical information systems. He has worked with clients like UK National Health Service, Chrysler, Citibank, Netscape and Andersen Consulting, pioneering object-oriented design and Agile methods. He was one of the authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. He has written five books on software development, and collected a few awards for them. He's also a highly regarded speaker at international conferences, although these days he prefers to stay off the stage.

Wolf Schlegel is a professionally qualified software engineer with over 18 years of international consulting experience. He has worked throughout the software lifecycle as a software engineer, software systems architect, team lead, business analyst and enterprise IT architect delivering major software systems. Wolf's currently works as a Principal Consultant for ThoughtWorks in Germany.  His primary professional interests are business analysis, software architecture, continuous integration and delivery, software development methodologies and test automation. Wolf also has a strong interest in business processes and domain modelling with a special focus on the mobile telecommunication domain. Besides telecommunications, Wolf has worked across several industries, such as finance and insurance, the public sector and the steel industry.

Erik Dörnenburg is the Head of Technology Europe at ThoughtWorks where he helps clients with the design and implementation of enterprise software. With experience in Java, .NET, and other environments Erik is continually exploring new technology. Frequent exposure to overly complex software has made him interested in simple architectures and software visualisation as means to help people better understand architecture. Erik’s career in enterprise software began in the early nineties on the NeXTSTEP platform, and throughout his career he has been an advocate of agile values and Open Source software. He holds a degree in Informatics from the University of Dortmund and has studied Computer Science and Linguistics at University College Dublin.