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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...

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...