3.3 Specific Courses

Nailing your Thesis (NYT) is our research lab course, where we teach what science is, how to perform research, and how to publish it. Below, please find the overview course syllabus. Part I: Introduction Introduction Research Example Paper Example Research Questions Homework Sched...

This week we concluded the 2012 AMOS Project(s). With the exception of one external client (GfK, see previous post), we stuck with our tried formula and kept developing Free Seas Ahoy!, the nautical network. Below, please find some photo impressions from the demo day. The first photo shows the whole...

This year in AMOS, the Agile Methods and Open Source lab course, we tried something new: Rather than invent our own app, we relied on an industry partner to provide the idea for an application. GfK, the market research giant, came to help (and benefit) and served us the requirements for a market res...

The OSR Group's Product Management seminar, an innovation in teaching product management to computer science and information system students, would like to say thank you to the product managers who helped us run another great course. We would like to thank the following people and their supporting c...

The PROD homework for next week is to interpret one paragraph from the "I'm a VC" song lyrics (below the video). Use (your participation (class) number modulo 10) + 1 to determine your paragraph and be ready to discuss it in class. I'm a VC Hey you listening, it’s going down just like ...

Product management is an under-taught topic. It sometimes hides as "requirements management" as part of a larger software engineering course. But that's just short-changing one of the most important business functions in product development firms there is. We are trying to change this situation with...

The AMOS lab course (Praktikum) is our main class to teach agile methods using Scrum (for process practices) and XP (for technical practices). We aim to make this as real as possible an experience, so students are grouped into (sometimes large) teams and are developing one piece of software during t...

Our Product Management Seminar, facing a full house, is off to a good start. In the photo below you can see not only the class but also my co-lecturer, Dr. Meier of Methodpark AG, in the front. The class is structured along our Product Management by Case effort. If you are a student, feel free to au...

FAU students are already getting excited about Christa Schwanninger's upcoming talk on Product Line Engineering in our Software Architecture class. The talk is free and open to the public!

Today we discussed JP Morgan Chase's presentation of "technology in banking" at Stanford's EE380 class. Discussion notes from the blackboard below, as usual. Also, in the lower part of the blackboard, the power law result of a recent paper on the distribution of coupling relationships in Java. ...