Author: Dirk Riehle

On June 2nd, 2014, the Productcamp Nuremberg will take place. Das ProductCamp, die (Un)Konferenz von Produktmanagern für Produktmanager, findet wieder am 2. Juni 2014 ab 10:00 Uhr in Nürnberg im Marmorsaal statt. We are happy to have received five free tickets for students from PROD, our ...

Abstract: To continuously build, test and deploy the “JDownloader” (JD) download manager code base, the team has been using Continuous Deployment principles for several months. The time frame from a source code change to a new release was radically reduced from hours to several minutes. JD’s ma...

Our group supports students who would like to go abroad for a final thesis. We maintain close connections with Asian Universities in China, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, as well as with Oceanian Universities in Australia and New Zealand. We also maintain close connections with several American Universiti...

Zu Ostern erreichen uns die Zielvereinbarungen der bayrischen Hochschulen zum Jahr 2018. Vergleicht man hierbei die von den Studierendenzahlen her gleich große FAU (Erlangen-Nürnberg) mit der TUM (München), so fällt dem unternehmerisch gesinnten Leser auf, wie ungleichgewichtig sich die beiden Unive...

Die Graduiertenschule der FAU hat einen Leitfaden für die gute Praxis in der Promotion veröffentlicht. Externe Doktoranden sollten diesen Leitfaden vor einem Gespräch mit Prof. Riehle durcharbeiten, um ihre Erwartungshaltung für sich zu klären.

We formed the student teams, met the industry partners, and set up shop. This semester, we are looking forward to a Sailing Race Course Designer app (SAP), a Hospital Wound Management app on multiple mobile devices (Develop Group), a Key Figures Management Dashboard service (Solyp), the Green Energy...

For the last Winter Semester, a large German software vendor had posed the following question to us: Please help us determine whether we have accumulated too much technical debt (and should invested now in quality improvement) or whether we can keep focusing on developing new functionality firs...

Today, we had the pleasure of listening to Michael Hausmann of DATEV eG talk about his experiences as a product manager. He used the pattern of "a day in the life of ..." to show to us how varied and interesting the work of a product manager is. Despite the following abstract being in German, the ta...

At courses/archive/evaluations interested parties can now find the student evaluations of our courses. Enjoy!

Prof. Riehle will give a talk on "open source in university projects" as part of the FAU lecture series "Faszination Technik" on June 18th, 2014, at 4pm, at the Fraunhofer IIS location in Erlangen. Here is the abstract: Ich werde häufig gefragt: "Ich möchte mein Projekt zu einem Open-Source-Projekt...