Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 2. Building Products

  • 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…

  • The challenge of product management in commercial open source

    The challenge of product management in commercial open source

    Open source is a viable business strategy for software vendors to disrupt existing markets and conquer new ones. Just why is it easy in some markets and hard in others? I argue that you need to cut the product in such a way that there is a clear separation between what a never-paying community-user wants…

  • German engineering now and then

    German engineering now and then

  • Microservices vs. inner source

    Microservices vs. inner source

    I just listened to Eberhard Wolff’s BED-Con talk on microservice-based system architectures, which he prefers to call Independent Systems Architectures (ISA). One purpose of calling it ISA is to emphasize that there should be no common data model and no shared reusable libraries between microservices. Obviously, by discounting reuse, ISA may increase development speed short-term…

  • Why you should not let developers scan their code for open source violations 4/4

    Why you should not let developers scan their code for open source violations 4/4

    As discussed in prior posts [1] [2] [3], companies need to take stock of the open source software code in their products. Otherwise, they will not be able to correctly comply with the licenses of the open source code they use. Taking stock means scanning and analyzing your product code, and who else to turn…

  • The challenge of scanning your product code for open source 3/4

    The challenge of scanning your product code for open source 3/4

    There is a lot of open source in pretty much every software product these days. Engineering managers are often surprised about how much (in particular, if they have a policy of “no open source”). Taking a look is not just an exercise in curiosity, it is actually a necessity to know exactly what open source…