Software Research and the Industry

As you may seen in an earlier blog post, I’m starting in a new position as a professor of software engineering focussing on open source software at the University of Erlangen. In this post, I’m laying out my abbreviated research agenda as of September 2009.
The overarching goal of my group’s research is to comprehensively define [...]

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My collaborators on the Enterprise Micro-blogging Adoption study at the Humboldt University of Berlin are at it again. In this second step, we are working to refine our understanding of what drives micro-blogging adoption in the enterprise. For this, we are looking for participants in a short pre-test survey. Here the survey summary:
You are using [...]

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These are patterns and practices of getting the most out of your 140 characters on Twitter.
dirkriehle: Examples are in-lined using blockquote like this; the author is named first
Table of Contents

General Principles
Informational Messages
Directed Conversations
Social Filtering
Global Communication

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There are many best practices of using Twitter for organizations. Here is one; I may post others in loose order as I have good examples at hand.
I was attending IBM’s NPUC:09. Like many, my first reaction when I’m unhappy these days is to tweet about it.
dirkriehle: Almaden is a great location, on top of a [...]

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Courtesy of SAP, here an English-language summary translation of the interview with Oliver Günther on micro-blogging and productivity.
Originally: “Das Microblogging kann die Produktivität durchaus steigern.” Computer Zeitung, June 15, 2009.
The integration of micro-blogging in corporations makes sense, concludes a project by SAP Research in Palo Alto and the Institute for Business Informatics at the Humboldt [...]

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Oliver Günther, a co-author of our micro-blogging in the enterprise study and a Professor at prestigious Humboldt University (of Berlin, Germany), was interviewed by the German tech weekly “Computer Zeitung” on the subject matter. He re-iterated our main point that micro-blogging can improve productivity in enterprises (but also that more work needs to be done). [...]

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Authors: Oliver Günther, Hanna Krasnova, Dirk Riehle, Valentin Schönberg
Abstract: Despite a broad range of collaboration tools already available, enterprises continue to look for ways to improve internal and external communication. Micro-blogging is such a new communication channel with some considerable potential to improve intra-firm transparency and knowledge sharing. However, the adoption of such social software [...]

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You may have noticed our work on improving corporate software development at SAP using an in-house software forge. The main benefit is in transferring open source best practices to our software development processes. At an upcoming industry conference presentation I’ll be talking about some of the lessons we learned. Here is the abstract of the [...]

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Authors: Dirk Riehle, John Ellenberger, Tamir Menahem, Boris Mikhailovski, Yuri Natchetoi, Barak Naveh, Thomas Odenwald
Abstract: Over the past 10 years, open source software has become an important cornerstone of the software industry. Commercial users have adopted it in standalone applications, and software vendors are embedding it in products. Surprisingly then, from a commercial perspective, open [...]

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Wikipedia is the free online encyclopedia that has taken the Internet by storm. It is written and administered solely by volunteers. How exactly did this come about and how does it work? Can it keep working? And maybe more importantly, can you transfer its practices to the workplace to achieve similar levels of dedication and [...]

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