4 Theses

Abstract: Although Scrum is relatively new to the academic world, there is a rising awareness to apply agile methods, not only in the professional software industry but also as part of the software engineering curriculum. The agile practices of Scrum were, in the context of this thesis, adopted...

We currently have plenty of Bachelor and Master Thesis opportunities available that focus on product management. Specifically, these are case-writing theses. In such a thesis, you will work with an industry partner (and us) to analyse a specific situation that the industry partner once faced. Typica...

Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht 18 Executive Summaries, welche in der Lehrveranstaltung „The Firm“ an der Professur für Open Source Software in den Jahren 2010 und 2011 entstanden sind. In der Analyse werden die Leitfragen des Handbuchs zur Businessplan-Erstellung des netzwerk nordb...

Abstract: Although open source software has developed from a negligible phenomenon to an integral part of today’s business world, there are still companies which cannot see its commercial viability. As a consequence, these companies keep on ignoring this wide-spread trend, therefore missing pos...

Herr Meier was staring at this quarter's revenue numbers for their enterprise software product. He should be very happy: Substantial maintenance revenue from several large customers was making the product profitable. Yet he wasn't. A deluge of one-off change requests from these large customers was s...

About two years ago, a company local to the Nuremberg area had to make a decision whether to open source their closed source enterprise software. This is a difficult decision: Does open sourcing mean you'll lose your bread-winning revenue streams? Or will you open up new markets and win big? In this...

Some software firms move some or all of their software development to foreign nations to take advantage of lower labor costs in those other countries. One example are German firms performing joint software development projects with firms located in China. While financially attractive, such projects ...

Abstract: Creating a flourishing volunteer-driven community portal is a hard task, even if the underlying social cause is good and motivating. Community founders need to reach out and market the portal, they need to seed the portal and attract volunteers, and they need to keep and grow the volu...

Abstract: The MediaWiki software has a built-in parser for parsing Wikitext, however, its capabilities are limited and it only performs a conversion to HTML . The OSR group has successfully developed an alternative Wikitext parser called Sweble which is able to parse Wikitext into a high-level ...

Abstract (from introduction):  Diese Bachelorarbeit soll sich der Aufgabe annehmen, Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede von Open-Source-Vereinigungen in einem Vergleichsschema zusammenzuführen. Hierfür werden zunächst sechs Open-Source-Vereinigungen analysiert und daraus relevante Vergleichsdimens...