Umfrage: Erfolg der Digitalisierung in der Schweizer Gesundheitsbranche

Umfrage: Erfolg der Digitalisierung in der Schweizer Gesundheitsbranche

Als Teil des Leistungsnachweises meiner Weiterbildung CAS IT Management und Agile Transformation an der Hochschule Luzern schreibe ich eine Arbeit über den Erfolg der Digitalisierung in der Schweizer Gesundheitsbranche in Form eines Blogposts. Teil der Arbeit ist eine quantitative Studie in Form einer Umfrage an Fachpersonen, Manager und Entscheider in der Schweizer Gesundheitsbranche zum Thema.

Online Courses for Developers - A slightly more Critical View

Online Courses for Developers - A slightly more Critical View

We have a massive skills shortage in IT, especially in development. A natural effect of this is that there are many career changers and, as a result, alternative educational opportunities. These alternatives, mostly YouTube video courses and other online offerings, are good knowledge brokers but have downsides. Especially in such a knowledge-driven environment, scientific methods are more important than entertaining course design.

Hiring Devs - Why you should consider Juniors

Hiring Devs - Why you should consider Juniors

When it comes to developer maturity, I heard many tech recruiters and decision-makers saying: “We should only hire senior devs.” This may be justified in some situations, projects, or teams, but I do not accept this statement as a general premise. In this blog post, I want to highlight the benefits that juniors can bring to the team and encourage you to find and foster new talent actively.

Why you probably don't need Spring Cloud Config

Why you probably don't need Spring Cloud Config

Spring cloud config is a configuration management solution and part of the Spring ecosystem. It’s easy to integrate and use, but it has severe downsides from an architectural perspective. Also, I have seen many projects where it was added just because “it is a thing” and even more often, it was used to solve or work around problems in the software architecture or deployment for which it doesn’t provide a real solution. In this blog post, I’ll point out some conceptional issues and downsides of that project I have seen so far.

Hiring Devs - The Seniority Paradox

Hiring Devs - The Seniority Paradox

In IT, there is a paradox when it comes to job titles. Somewhere along the way, the practice of linking job titles to a candidate’s (desired) experience became established in large parts of the market. This then created the now famous and omnipresent job titles like “Senior Software Engineer”, “Professional DevOps Engineer”, etc. In this blog post, I would like to explain the paradox around these designations and how I use them in the course of the talent search…