5.2 Event and Talk Reports

Today, Wolfgang Mauerer of Siemens Corporate Technology lectured on statistics and regressions, providing students in Nailing your Thesis with a refresher of the math necessary for our open source analytics work. Thank you, Wolfgang, for your continued help!

Today in Nailing your Thesis we were happy to have Prof. Nicole Kimmelmann of FAU's own WiSo faculty as a guest speaker. Her topic was Grounded Theory and specifically, interview analysis. Since several students chose interview analysis as their class thesis, we expect this to have been very useful!...

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...

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 ...

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...

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! ...

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! ...

Today, in the Product Management seminar we teach at FAU, we had our first industry speaker talk about his work. Our big thank you goes out to Dr. Rainer Pausch of Herzogenaurach's WeWebU for discussing the breadth and depth of his work as head of products, ECM software, at this innovative single-ve...

A glimpse from the "serious games" course of the 2010 Ferienakademie: It is 21:40 Uhr (9:40pm) and Project Central is brimming. Left with new requirements from the the customer, we are working on a new design.

Prof. Riehle is currently at the Ferienakademie 2010, teaching "serious game" design together with Prof. Bruegge of TU Munich and Prof. Siewiorek of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center. Below please find our coverage of Dan's talks. The first talk was about the game industry: Listening...