Homepage of Jörn Dinkla
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I have been working as a software developer, architect, and consultant for over 25 years. As a Lead Consultant at Thoughtworks, I help organizations build modern software products in an agile, secure, and reliable way. I support teams methodically, technically, and personally—whether through coaching, architecture consulting, or hands-on pair programming.
I am a strong advocate of agile, TDD, CI/CD, DevOps practices, and Lean Thinking principles.
Who Ensures Quality in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
As an external consultant in an Enabling Team for Cloud Architecture, I supported several teams and noticed that software development quality was lacking. This surprised me because the client was using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). A quick look at the SAFe website promises that quality is built in with “build quality in.” Why was this not the case in the projects I was involved in?
Generating dialogues with OpenAI's API
During the winter holidays I had some fun letting AIs discuss with each other about various topics. I personally like to chat with ChatGPT and challenge it (him/her) with difficult thoughts. I wondered if I can let ChatGPT argue with other instances of itself …
Using OpenAI's API to generate prompts for images
The advances of artificial intelligence in the last months are simply breath taking. It is now very easy to use “intelligent” APIs in your web app. In this example application the user can describe a scene in simple terms. GPT creates a fully fledged description and DALL-E 2 converts this into an image.
Groovy, EMF and UML2
I wrote the Groovy EMF builder and the Groovy UML2 builder.
These tools use the builder concept of the programming language Groovy to ease the processing of Eclipse Modelling Framework and UML2 code.
Eclipse BugDays 2007
I participated at Eclipse BugDays in July, August, September, October, and November 2007 and helped debugging the Eclipse projects JDT, PDE/UI, and ECF.
Fraud Detection with Artificial Intelligence
From 1999 to 2004, I collected information on the topic of ‘Fraud detection’ on my website.
When I started this in 1999 as a research assistant at the University of Karlsruhe, there was not much information available on the topic of ‘Data Science’. Back then, it was more commonly referred to as ‘Knowledge Discovery in Databases’ (KDD) in academic circles or ‘Data Mining’ in the business world.
