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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...

Sweble 1.1.0 fixes some bugs and introduces a couple of new features/modules. For a full list of changes please refer to the changes reports of the individual modules. The release can be found on maven central. Jars with dependencies will soon be available from our downloads page. Fi...

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 ...

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...