Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Author: Dirk Riehle

  • Product manager vs. product owner

    Product manager vs. product owner

    Alistair Cockburn pointed us to an excellent article by Melissa Perri about the differences between a product manager and (Scrum) product owner. The article clarifies some confusion. I’d like to repeat and emphasize some points that have been omitted (and where I also disagree). Foremost, a product manager works on products for a market (i.e.…

  • Professors and startups

    Professors and startups

    My primary goal in becoming a professor was to turn my (hoped-for excellent) research and teaching into startups. For that reason I created the Startupinformatik program and set-up my teaching to support it. Sadly, I’ve been noticing over the years that things don’t seem to get easier but harder. Specifically, “the system” (I’ll explain below)…

  • But what if someone steals my inner source code?

    But what if someone steals my inner source code?

    During my talk at the inner source summit, I was asked about the following worry with establishing inner source at a company: But if we lay all source code open within the company, don’t we run the risk that a disgruntled employee has it too easy to steal all code and publish it on the…

  • Slides for keynote at Inner Source Commons Summit at Bosch

    Slides for keynote at Inner Source Commons Summit at Bosch

    Today, I gave a keynote at the 2018 spring Inner Source Commons summit at Bosch, in Renningen, Germany. I talked about our experiences with ten years of inner source projects at the companies we have been working with. The slides are available as a PDF. The photo above is from the first keynote of the…

  • Output of a 3D metal printer

    Output of a 3D metal printer

    According to my hosts, this object took 34h to print.

  • FOSS compliance intensive seminar June 14-15th, 2018 in Berlin (in German)

    FOSS compliance intensive seminar June 14-15th, 2018 in Berlin (in German)

    Catharina Maracke’s Software Compliance Academy writes to us: