JavaMagazin: Software Architecture and Burnout

I wrote a new article for the german JavaMagazin called “Der neue Architekt” (in english: The new architect). It’s about the trendy word “Burnout” in the software world. Usually there is nobody speaking about the workload in our scene - people tend to say it’s pretty “normal” or “there is no way to change” the pressure which lies often upon us all. Also it seems the whole world is working 60 hours a week on a regular basis without health trouble. In this article I clean up with some prejudices and show hard facts how important this discussion is. In my opinion, with the growing of todays software projects and the on going budget limitation we need to think about efficiency. And one of the keys for an effective team is a healthy, lucky team. But this article is not aiming to accuse the industry of anything evil. It’s showing how the facts are. The follow up article next month will figure out how we could deal with it.

After all, it’s basically aiming to start a discussion for improving the way we work and make it more efficient and nice. It’s time to change something!