And the reason it is such an important part of the economy in the German-speaking area of Europe is that it is one of the very few methodologies which is accepted and agreed on by most of the unions and bigger companies’ own work councils. “Give only the intern access to the test database.” – suddenly only the intern has access, everyone else is locked out For non-native English speakers, these pitfalls multiply: German thinking: “Gib dem Praktikanten nur Zugriff auf die Testdatenbank.” This could become: ✅ “Give the intern access only to the test database” – correct, limiting scope ⚠️ “Only give the intern access to the test database” – wait, what about everyone else? And the whole definition of the specs which resulted from the conversation with my mom, including the amendments of the change requests — every single thing had been implemented down to the exact point I also would have understood the specs to be implemented.
Author: Klaus Loeffelmann
Published at: 2026-02-24 23:00:00
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