Prof. Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

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  • Publications
    • 2021 (Selected)
      • The Open Source Distributor Business Model
    • 2020 (Selected)
      • Single-Vendor Open Source Firms (and Their Intellectual Property Strategies)
    • 2019 (Selected)
      • The Innovations of Open Source
    • 2017 (Selected)
      • Open Source License Compliance in Software Supply Chains
    • 2014 (Selected)
      • The Five Stages of Open Source Volunteering
      • The Open Source Software Developer Career and Its Benefits
    • 2011 (Selected)
      • Control Points and Steering Mechanisms in Open Source Software Projects
    • 2010 (Selected)
      • The Economic Case for Open Source Foundations
    • 2009 (Selected)
      • Open Collaboration within Corporations Using Software Forges
      • The Single-Vendor Commercial Open Source Business Model
    • 2008 (Selected)
      • Bringing Open Source Best Practices into Corporations Using a Software Forge
      • The Total Growth of Open Source
      • Wiki Creole Grammar, Schema, and Transformations
    • 2007 (Selected)
      • The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives
    • 2000 (Selected)
      • Framework Design: A Role Modeling Approach
    • 1998 (Selected)
      • Values in Object systems
  • Open Books
    • Open Source Expanded (IEEE Computer Column)
    • A Geek’s (Photo) Tour of Silicon Valley
  • Open Courses
  • Visual Spaghetti Robotics Edition

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    2023-06-03

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    2. Building Products, 2.6 Architecture and Design

    Visual Spaghetti Robotics Edition

    Ever since the Intrinsic launch event a few weeks back, I wanted to write a long article on how the shown approach of visual programming for robotics is likely to fail. This prediction is based on forty years of experience with visual spaghetti in software engineering. I never got around writing a long blog post, […]


  • Why Scrum projects are harder at a university than in industry

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    2023-05-25

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    3. Research and Teaching, 3.4 The AMOS Project

    Why Scrum projects are harder at a university than in industry

    I teach distributed Scrum to student teams every semester. Sometimes, industry tells me how much easier it must be to run Scrum projects at a university rather than “in real life” i.e. in industry. I beg to differ: Running Scrum projects at a university is much harder than running Scrum projects in industry, for the […]


  • Lessons Learned From the Ant Group Open Source Program Office (Xia et al., IEEE Computer Column)

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    2023-04-26

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    1. Software Industry, 1.2 Open Source (Industry)

    Lessons Learned From the Ant Group Open Source Program Office (Xia et al., IEEE Computer Column)

    I’m happy to report that the 24th article in the Open Source Expanded column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Lessons Learned From the Ant Group Open Source Program Office Keywords — Authors Xiaoya Xia, Wei Wang, Shengyu Zhao, Sikang Bian, Rong Wang Publication Computer vol. 56, no. 4 (April 2023), pp. 92-97. Abstract: […]


  • Open Source Explained Lecture in TUM Lecture Series on Digital Sustainability

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    2023-04-24

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    4. Society-at-large, 4.2 Open Source (Society)

    Open Source Explained Lecture in TUM Lecture Series on Digital Sustainability

    Today I had the pleasure of giving a talk about open source in the TUM lecture series on digital sustainability, organized by Alexander Pretschner of TU Munich, bidt, and TU Wien. The talk was in German and streamed, but not recorded. Below please find my slides.


  • Open Source Usability and User Experience (Mikko Rajanen, IEEE Computer Column)

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    2023-02-15

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    1. Software Industry, 1.2 Open Source (Industry)

    Open Source Usability and User Experience (Mikko Rajanen, IEEE Computer Column)

    I’m happy to report that the 23nd article in the Open Source Expanded column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Open Source Usability and User Experience Keywords — Authors Mikko Rajanen, University of Oulu Publication Computer vol. 56, no. 2 (February 2023), pp. 106-110. Abstract: This article highlights the challenges of user-centered and usability […]


  • Women in Open Source: We Need to Talk About It (Trinkenreich et al., IEEE Computer Column)

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    2022-11-30

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    1. Software Industry, 1.2 Open Source (Industry)

    Women in Open Source: We Need to Talk About It (Trinkenreich et al., IEEE Computer Column)

    I’m happy to report that the 22nd article in the Open Source Expanded column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Women in Open Source: We Need to Talk About It Keywords — Authors Bianca Trinkenreich, Marco Aurelio Gerosa, and Igor Steinmacher (Northern Arizona University) Publication Computer vol. 55, no. 12 (December 2022), pp. 145-149 […]


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