During the Sapphire'06 at Orlando, Hasso Plattner's key note was on design a topic he seems be really interested in, he helped launch and fund at the Institute of Design at California's Stanford University and is now offering new masters degree for "design thinking" next year at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering in Potsdam, Germany.

A primary goal is to encourage interdisciplinary teamwork, something that Plattner believes is sorely lacking in the training of many German and European software engineers.

One of the pet peeves of the former SAP chief executive officer is that software engineers often pack products with far too many functions that no one needs, often because they're too focused on engineering.

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Prashanth Rai