Author: Dirk Riehle

In ARCH-TALK today we watched the following videos and took the appended blackboard notes. Jeff McKenna on Conscious Software Development: Architecture Rob Wojcik on Software Architecture Fundamentals Joe Yoder (and Brian Foote) on Big Balls of Mud in Agile Development: Can We Avoid Them? Ro...

Dr. Martin Jung is an industry lecturer who jointly with Prof. Riehle leads this semesters Software Architecture (ARCH) seminar. He shared some of his experiences with us before we will be starting with student presentations. Below please find a few photo impressions from his talk on software archit...

My university, the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) is a renowned general university with a strong engineering faculty and tradition. While highly attractive from an educational point of view, it has remained hard to attract sufficiently large numbers of students to this bea...

The Open Source Research Group, teaching as part of the Applied Software Engineering Research and Teaching Alliance makes significant use of industry lecturers who team up with us in our various classes. Next to the original lecturers, here is a short overview of who is currently involved with us. I...

This semester we are introducing ARCH, our new seminar on Software Architecture. ARCH goes together with ARCH-TALK (a series of videos, see explanation) to form a 5 ECTS seminar. Here is the key information for the seminar: Seminar description Seminar schedule and topics Detailed seminar topi...

Google has been a generous sponsor of the AMOS lab course in the past and just doubled, well, ten-folded down: After a trip I found this boatload of Nexus One phones on my desk. It will be very helpful to students to actually experience and experiment with the phones on campus rather than being (mos...

Herr Meier was staring at this quarter's revenue numbers for their enterprise software product. He should be very happy: Substantial maintenance revenue from several large customers was making the product profitable. Yet he wasn't. A deluge of one-off change requests from these large customers was s...

Prof. Riehle is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Open Commons Region Linz. From the appended press release: Eine Vorreiterrolle im europäischen Raum hat die Stadt Linz mit dem 2009 gestarteten Projekt „Open Commons Region Linz“ übernommen. Sein Ziel ist unter anderem, Daten via I...

About two years ago, a company local to the Nuremberg area had to make a decision whether to open source their closed source enterprise software. This is a difficult decision: Does open sourcing mean you'll lose your bread-winning revenue streams? Or will you open up new markets and win big? In this...

Some software firms move some or all of their software development to foreign nations to take advantage of lower labor costs in those other countries. One example are German firms performing joint software development projects with firms located in China. While financially attractive, such projects ...