Author: Dirk Riehle

This semester we introduced a teaching innovation at FAU: A seminar on software product management. With two student presentations each session, the topic coverage is comprehensive. The first talk today was about a large company case study, Microsoft in this case, and it answered questions like how ...

PROD: Product vs. Engineering Management in tech-savvy companies

Today Prof. Bernd Hindel lectured in "The Firm", our seminar on how software product firms work. Prof. Hindel is both an honorary professor of the computer science department and the CEO of local but internationally operating software engineering firm Methodpark. The topic today was finances and leg...

FAU's segFAUlt team won the German Collegiate Programming Contest (2011) last weekend. Congratulations to the team coached by Tobias Werth! Also, three more FAU teams scored seats among the top ten of 43 contenders. This is the third year in a row that FAU beat the so-called "elite" universities lik...

AMOS: Why WSJ Mobile App Gets ** Customer Reviews

Today, in PROD, the product management seminar, Anja Schwarz of Sophist GmbH reported about her life as a requirements engineer (including roles, practices, and techniques of requirements engineering). Below, you can find some photo impressions. Thank you, Frau Schwarz, for your presentation! ...

Supplementary teaching materials from the web: Contracts in agile software development Eclipse Indigo release train announcement A Tale of Requirements Engineering (humor) Enjoy!

Die Open-Source-Forschungsgruppe an der FAU betreibt empirische Forschung, in der mathematische Modellbildung der untersuchten Phänomene eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Deswegen sind wir auf der Suche nach mathematischer Kompetenz für Bachelor und Master-Arbeiten. Idealerweise mögen Sie auch Open Source...

We just released this week's sprint results of the 2011 AMOS project "Free Seas Ahoy!" - what's remarkable is a new design making it look very nice. Work, of course, continues on the underlying features. Thanks team, great job!! Three photos appended, check out http://fsahoy.com, the free social...

Today, Michael Kircher, department manager at Siemens Healtcare, introduced "scaling agility" (read: large-scale distributed Scrum) to the students of the 2011 AMOS Project class. Students were listening and questioning attentively. Some impressions below. Thank you, Michael, for teaching us! ...