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And now, a word from one of our sponsors, Google. --Dirk Riehle Hello, Do you want to work on a wide diversity of technologies? Do you enjoy working with both, systems and coding? If so, then Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role might be interesting for you. For our Site Rel...

Today, Christoph Elsner passed his Ph.D. exam and thesis defense. Congratulations, Dr. Elsner! Below, please find some photo impressions from the proceedings!

Today, Erich Meier, top product manager at Methodpark AG and member of its board taught us about strategic product management. Thank you, Erich, for teaching us!

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...

We are finally deploying releases of Sweble and related software to Maven Central. This has many advantages for users of our software, among others: You don't have to refer to our Maven repositories any more in your own poms (if you only use our releases; snapshots are still only available from o...

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...

Some students prepare for exams by using the lecture slides only. This is highly problematic on many accounts and a recipe for failure in an exam. First, a good course has a clear learning objective; the extent to which you achieved that objective is measured in an exam, be it oral or written. Th...

Today, the Sweble Wikitext Parser project started. It is funded by Google. For more information, please see http://bit.ly/fau-oss-sweble.

If you intend to take AMOS in SS 2012 please take this survey. It will remain open until the last week before the semester starts. Please register for AMOS or PROD on StudOn as soon as possible. Both classes are oversubscribed. If you got "wait-listed" it doesn't mean you won't get in. We will ma...