3.3 Specific Courses

In ARCH-TALK today we discussed three example systems (Asterisk, Mercurial, LLVM), all taken from the Architecture of Open Source Applications book. In addition, we watched Ian Wilkes presentation of the architecture of Second Life (2007) on InfoQ. For those who missed it, please find the black b...

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...

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...

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. ...

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

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...

The 2011 AMOS project, "Free Seas Ahoy!", is well under way. Below you can get an impression from a sprint planning session. Enjoy! And if you want to know more about this type of project, check out the AMOS project concept paper (in German).