Author: Dirk Riehle

PROD, the product management seminar, started today. For the first time, we will be using teaching cases. Below some photos from the course.

Today marks the start of the 2013 AMOS projects. We are proud and feel privileged to be working with industry partners in this newest edition of our ever popular software engineering lab course. Students learn how agile methods work and apply them in a real-world software project. Industry partners ...

If you are a student and intend to take The AMOS Project course this coming summer semester, please make sure that you are not only signed up on StudOn, but also please take the student entry survey here: /surveys/index.php/671892/lang-en. We will use the survey to determine your interests and capab...

Update 2017-10-30: This grading scheme has been superseded by a new version. The version below may still be of interest for the grading rationale based on the various Prüfrungsordnungen. With increasing student volume, we have to review more and more final theses from students of various...

With three new Ph.D. students this year and a strengthened relationship with Siemens CT (Corporate Technology, Siemens' research arm), I had to clarify our research group goals, the mechanisms that help us reach these goals, and the metrics we steer by. Below, please find a graphics that illustrates...

In our research we apply, among other methods, case study research, and in our teaching we use teaching case studies. Occasionally, I have to explain the difference, so here is a quote from (Yin, 2009, p.9), which explains it well. (Yes, blogs can serve nicely as external memories...) the purpos...

Netdosis, the 2010 AMOS start-up project, is at it again (after winning a Medical Valley contest last year). This time, we entered the Northern Bavaria business plan contest and made into the top 10 winners (no more specific ranking provided at this stage). For Netdosis, this is the run-up to seed s...

Heute haben wir zum ersten Mal ein Seminar zum Thema "Open Source und Universitätsprojekte" gehalten. Ziel war, Universitätsangehörigen zu vermitteln, wie Open-Source-Software und Strategien sinnvoll im Sinne unseres Arbeitgebers eingesetzt werden können. Neben den üblichen Grundlagen ging es primär...

We visited Appwork yesterday, a FAU-student-created start-up and provider of JDownloader, a desktop application for downloading files. We use it, mostly for downloading research talks and other instructional material. Appwork's offices are located in downtown Fürth, in a beautiful loft, see photo im...