Teaching Materials for Agile Methods Course

I finally put my teaching materials for my agile methods course on this website. The slides are available in “source” form, i.e. Open/LibreOffice format, as well as PDFs. I also added supplementary materials like the videos I use for illustration purposes. The slides are made available using the Creative Commons BY-SA license and are based on a course I’ve been giving several times now. It is far from being perfect but obviously good enough for a real course. Feel free to use or copy from the slides for your own courses!

My goal is to keep improving the slides. I expect there to be a new version every year or maybe every semester. For me, this is an experiment. I honestly don’t know how to collaborate around a format like ODP and ODT. It sure doesn’t feel like source code. So, my best suggestion is that if you find this useful and would like to see it improve in a direction that suits you, please let me know of your suggestions. I might then incorporate the suggested changes into the slide set. In general, my philosophy is that the content will grow, but ideally in a consistent fashion.

Call for Papers: HICSS-46 Minitrack on Open Movements

OPEN MOVEMENTS:
FLOSS, OPEN CONTENTS, OPEN ACCESS AND OPEN COMMUNITIES

Conference Site: Grand Wailea Maui
Dates: 7-10 January 2013

HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer and system sciences and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Additional detail about the conference may be found on the HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

This mini-track covers all aspects of the Open Movement phenomena, such as:

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Tracking and Preparing for ECOOP 2012

Here is useful information from the chair if you are considering attending ECOOP 2012 in Beijing!

  1. We have a Facebook page for announcements: http://www.facebook.com/events/221514727865075/
  2. We have a travel page where people can plan and discuss travel arrangements http://www.facebook.com/events/314574741939037/
  3. ECOOP registration is now live at http://ecoop12.cs.purdue.edu. Early registration deadline is May 1st. Please register early.
  4. There is funding for student travel to PLDI+ECOOP: http://pldi12.cs.purdue.edu/content/students
  5. Students are also encouraged to participate as volunteers (free ECOOP+ registration): http://ecoop12.cs.purdue.edu/content/call-student-volunteers
  6. The PLDI Student Research Competition (http://pldi12.cs.purdue.edu/content/student-research-competition) and the ECOOP PhD Symposium (http://ecoop12.cs.purdue.edu/content/ecoop-2012-doctoral-symposium) are open for submissions.

See you at ECOOP 2012 in Beijing!

Call for Papers: WikiSym 2012

8th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

August 27-29, 2012 | Linz, Austria

The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) is the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies. In 2012, WikiSym celebrates its 8th year of scholarly, technical and community innovation in Linz, Austria.  We are excited this year to be collocated with Ars Electronica, the premier digital art and science meeting that attracts over 35,000 attendees per year.

Submissions are invited for the following categories:

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Call for Papers: OSS 2012

For your convenience, the OSS 2012 call for papers (I’m on the program committee).


THE 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS

Hammamet, Tunisia, 10-13 September 2012

Scope of OSS 2012

Over the past two decades, Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has introduced new successful models for creating, distributing, acquiring and using software and software-based services. Inspired by the success of FLOSS, other forms of open initiatives have been gaining momentum. Open source systems (OSS) now extend beyond software to include open access, open documents, open science, open education, open government, open cloud, open hardware, open artworks and museum exhibits, open innovation and more. On the one hand, the openness movement has created new kinds of opportunities such as the emergence of new business models, knowledge exchange mechanisms, and collective development approaches. On the other hand, the movement has introduced new kinds of challenges, especially as different problem domains embrace openness as a pervasive problem solving strategy. OSS can be complex yet widespread and often cross-cultural. Consequently, they require an interdisciplinary understanding of their technical, economic, legal and socio-cultural dynamics.

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Call for Papers: ECOOP 2012

For your convenience, the ECOOP 2012 call for papers (I’m on the program committee).


Call for Papers 征稿启事

The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is the premium international conference covering all areas of object technology and related software development technologies. ECOOP 2012 will take place from 11-16 June, 2012 in Beijing, China — only the second time ECOOP has been held outside Europe. ECOOP 2012 embraces a broad range of topics related to object-orientation, including:

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Call for Papers: Software Product Lines (SPLC 2012)

For your convenience, the SPLC 2012 call for papers (I’m on the program committee).


Call for Contributions (SPLC 2012)

We invite the following classes of contributions:

  1. Research papers: (max. 10 pages, 5 for short papers) describe original research contributions (theoretical, conceptual) to the field of software product line engineering. We also call for short research papers, which are intended to report ideas in their early stages. Submission deadline: Feb. 20th, 2012.
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Upcoming Talk: The Open Source Volunteering Process

Title The Open Source Volunteering Process
Abstract Open source projects critically depend on bringing new project members on board speedily and effectively. In this talk, I’ll describe the open source volunteering and on-boarding process. I’ll discuss the roles people play and the practices they follow, and I’ll illustrate how this process works by showing the open source software development tools that support it.
Speaker Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Date 14.07.11, 18:30(-20:00)
Location Cogneon GmbH, Henkestr. 91, Erlangen
More GfWM Website Announcement (in German)

Call for Papers: SoSyM Special Issue on Enterprise Modeling

Call for Papers as PDF

Modern organizations rely on complex configurations of distributed IT systems that implement key business processes, provide databases, data warehousing, and business intelligence. The current business environment requires organizations to comply with a range of externally defined regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and BASEL II.

Organizations need to be increasingly agile, robust, and be able to react to complex events, possibly in terms of dynamic reconfiguration.

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New Talk: How and Why IT User Companies Sponsor Open Source

New talk! For German, see below. Other stock talks here. If you are interested in this talk, feel free to contact me.

Topics Open source, IT user company, open source foundation, sponsored open source
Audience CIO, CFO, product manager, project manager
Format 45min talk, 60min talk
Level Intermediate

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