Author: Dirk Riehle

As we are gearing up for the 2014 AMOS Projects, here are some positive comments from the student evaluations from prior years. AMOS was held as a lecture in 2009 and as a lab course four times thereafter. In 2013 we started adding industry partners to the projects. The comments are about the lab co...

Netdosis AG, the 2010 AMOS Project and the first student-created start-up from our Startup-Informatik initiative, sold its assets to Berlin-based ID Berlin late last year. It will be closing its doors later this year. Not to miss a beat, Markus Stipp, the leading student, is on to his next adventure...

The Develop Group GmbH was an industry partner helping us teach agile methods as part of the 2013 AMOS projects. The Develop Group-side project manager was Mr. Husemann. Below please find his testimonial about his experience with our students: Die develop group hat 2013 im Rahmen von AMOS 201...

DATEV eG was an industry partner helping us teach agile methods as part of the 2013 AMOS projects. The DATEV-side project manager was Mr. Sauermann. Below please find his testimonial about his experience with our students: "Die Softwareentwicklung der DATEV hat als Partner für betriebswirtschaf...

Audi AG was an industry partner helping us teach agile methods as part of the 2013 AMOS projects. The Audi-side project manager was Mr. Lämmle. Below please find his testimonial about his experience with our students: "Die Audi AG / Planung Elektrik/Elektronik hat als Industriepartner für AMOS ...

Update 2014-03-14: Click here for Poster! We are happy to announce the following projects for the upcoming AMOS 5/10 ECTS project (Informatik Praktikum/Projekt). Each project idea comes with an industry partner who is providing the high-level requirements. This is an opportunity for students ...

Maximilian Capraro, a member of our research group, wrote his Master Thesis based on work he performed at Boston-based start-up Black Duck Software (BDS). At BDS Max worked on the ohloh.net open source data service, specifically bug-tracker-based metrics gathering and reporting. That work has now go...

Abstract: Global software development projects are rapidly increasing due to the globalization of the software industry. However, 69% of cross-regional projects fail completely or partially, because of the lack of cross cultural understanding. This thesis presents a qualitative study of the impact o...

This post is joined at the hip with the prior post on University Job vs. Dissertation (Ph.D.) Work. If you haven't read that one, please do so first. This post mostly applies to the German system. Depending on who you ask, you will get different answers. A professor may say: "You can get a Ph.D. ...

Updated 2020-04-03 for better reading. To understand the German Ph.D. system, it is helpful to understand the difference between a university job and doctoral (dissertation) work. Many confuse the two; they are orthogonal (but do interact). A university job is just that: a job. You are em...