This announcement will most likely be my last post on Twitter/X for the foreseeable future. The content I see on the platform gets less and less relevant to me, and I don't like where X is heading. I will primarily use LinkedIn for professional posts going forward.

Role transitions, reorganizations, and software development: Teams split/merge, job profiles shift, colleagues move roles/retire. These changes are constant, but how do they impact the software systems being developed? We're exploring this in our survey: survey-uni-bayreuth-tivian.de/uc/role-transi…

Every career path looks different, and mine is certainly not representative. Interestingly, little is known about typical career paths in the software industry. Let's change that with the career progression study: paulralph.name/career_progres… Please RT! CC

From Opinion to Evidence: An Empirical Approach to Software Engineering. The recording of my inaugural lecture at

is now available online:

We're running a study on how certain personality traits and cognitive abilities impact performance in typical "coding interview" tasks. Personality tests get more and more common in recruiting processes, so this study might be interesting if you are applying for jobs soon!