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Should we teach in English or German? Or both? But then, which class in which language? This question is at the center of an on-going debate, and it is a hard question to answer. Here is how the Open Source Research (and Teaching) Group is looking at the situation. The fundamental assumption i...

Johannes Link just finished his Test-driven Development classes (both introduction and advanced methods) at FAU, facing an audience of regular students, Ph.D. students, and industry participants. The class evaluation shows that not only did participants enjoy the the class but were asking for...

FAU students love our industry speakers, as class evaluations regularly show. This semester, DATEV eG, stands out. Both talks by Victor Sauermann and Ulf Schubert received a lot of praise verbally, and we also received it again in the class evaluations. Picking from a number of similar comments, her...

Johannes Link's course on test-driven development (TDD) is well underway at FAU. He finished the introductory part last week to a full class. Please find some photo impressions below. Thanks, Johannes, for teaching us!    

The upcoming Agile Methods and Open Source lab course (AMOS) just got even better with the arrival of a Google TV device shown below. Thank you Google!

We found ourselves conducting business at Nuremberg's new Coworking space on Jakobsplatz second time within a week, so we figured it would be good to point out how quickly this has become a hotbed of innovation and interesting people. Today, we ran into (well, worked with) the dynamic duo of the Ecl...

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...

Die DATEV eG ist einer der besten Arbeitgeber in Nürnberg und Umgebung. Sie haben vielleicht das Engagement der DATEV in unserer Lehre wahrgenommen (User Experience Design: Ulf Schubert, Software-Architektur: Victor Sauermann). Die DATEV lädt Sie ein, sie auf der CeBIT 2012 näher kennenzulernen. Nur...

Teaching The AMOS Project (AMOS) The AMOS project is our annual lab course used to teach agile methods and open source. It is also our incubator for new software startups, see the AMOS project concept (in German). Product Management (PROD) Product management is a key business function of sof...