Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Author: Dirk Riehle

  • User experience design in software product lines [HICSS 2019]

    User experience design in software product lines [HICSS 2019]

    Abstract: User experience design is an important part of software product development, and yet software product line engineering has largely ignored this topic. This paper presents a set of industry best practices for user experience design in software product lines. We conducted multiple-case case study research using two different product lines within the multinational company…

  • Why I still teach Scrum

    Why I still teach Scrum

    Scrum is an agile method (framework) that when instantiated can be rather ornate. Most developers, when I talk to them, tell me that when given a choice they would not be doing Scrum. While Scrum may have felt much lighter than the competition back in the nineties, today it weighs in as rather heavy. Given…

  • Paid vs. volunteer open source work in China (projects) 3 / 3

    Paid vs. volunteer open source work in China (projects) 3 / 3

    We just finished redoing our original analysis of paid vs. volunteer work in open source for Gitee, a Chinese-dominated code hosting platform from China. We wanted to understand where China stands in open source. Previous blog posts looked at base data, e.g. the half/half split between paid and volunteer work, as well as developer behavior,…

  • Paid vs. volunteer open source work in China (developers) 2 / 3

    Paid vs. volunteer open source work in China (developers) 2 / 3

    We just finished redoing our original analysis of paid vs. volunteer work in open source for Gitee, a Chinese-dominated code hosting platform from China. We wanted to understand where China stands in open source. The previous blog post explained the half / half split between paid vs. volunteer time in terms of total work on…

  • Paid vs. volunteer open source work in China 1 / 3

    Paid vs. volunteer open source work in China 1 / 3

    In 2014 we published a study on paid vs. volunteer work in open source, using a representative sample of open source projects from 2008 (i.e. before GitHub). In 2008, open source activity was decidedly Western, with little contributions from China. In 2017, I finally found a student to redo the analysis for China. More specifically,…

  • Survey of open source compliance by working group of Bitkom (in German)

    Survey of open source compliance by working group of Bitkom (in German)

    The open source working group of Bitkom, a German IT association, has prepared a short survey on open source compliance in companies. My research group supports the survey. If you are interested, please take the survey (in German).