Author: Dirk Riehle

Bearingpoint Consulting has teamed up with the Open Source Research group and is providing a survey on the use of open source software in the automotive industry. Bearingpoint is a leading European strategic management consulting firm. Martin Helmreich, one of our graduates, recently started to work...

Free Seas Ahoy!, the 2011 AMOS Project, reached its 1.0 version today at http://fsahoy.com, finishing of the semester and the lab course with a successful 1.0 release. Check it out! And below, please find a few photo impressions from the final Scrum review and release session as well as the business...

SUSE, an Attachmate division these days, donated to our Product Management class a boatload of SUSE coffee mugs. SUSE, a leading Linux distributor, is an outgrowth of this university and a sponsor of the Open Source Research Group. Thank you!

AMOS: This American Life on (Software) Patents PROD: Teaching Note on Intuit Case E-381(A)

Mydosis, a FAU student start-up that recently received seed stage funding, is looking for an additional co-founder or employee #1. We are looking for a student and/or experienced Java software developer to help us take http://mydosis.de to the next stage. Mydosis is a community portal for pediatric ...

Today we would like to point you to PARC's running event series, which is being livestreamed, and for which many events have been recorded for later viewing. Of relevance to our teaching are the following two current talks: FIRM: Lean Startups (tonight) PROD: Disruptive Innovation (next month)...

Next to the regular sprint rhythm, students perform specialized functions in the AMOS project, our annual agile methods and open source lab course. Below please find photo impressions from an acceptance testing, test plan management, and user experience session, all led by students. ...

The AMOS projects is our annual student lab course teaching agile methods and open source programming. We release on a weekly basis, using one-week sprints. Thus, every week in the main exercise session, we go through a review, release, and retrospective process to close the current sprint, and star...

The AMOS projects is our annual student lab course teaching agile methods and open source programming. Below, please find some impressions from a sprint planning session. For those interested, the 2011 AMOS Product Backlog is online and public. The project website itself is fsahoy.com. ...

Today, Dr. Gerald Pfeifer and Holger Dyroff, Director of Product Management and VP of Business Development at Attachmate's Suse business unit, respectively, presented about open source product management in the PROD seminar. Focus of the talk and the engaged discussion with students was open source ...