Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 2. Building Products

  • Ten years of inner source case studies (video)

    Ten years of inner source case studies (video)

    Georg Grütter of Bosch recorded my keynote at the Inner Source Commons summit in Renningen, Germany, on May 16th, 2018, and put it on Youtube. Please watch it below (original video, local copy). According to Georg, the video is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (for the Bosch part) and I agree (for my part). Hence…

  • Third time’s the charm: Ten years of inner source case studies

    Third time’s the charm: Ten years of inner source case studies

    Actually, I just notice it is the fourth time within the last two months, but tomorrow is the first time I’ll present our research on inner source in a public venue. If you are interested in ten years of case studies on how to use open source best practices within companies (called inner source), come…

  • The QDAcity-RE method for structural domain modeling using qualitative data analysis [RE Journal]

    The QDAcity-RE method for structural domain modeling using qualitative data analysis [RE Journal]

    Abstract: The creation of domain models from qualitative input relies heavily on experience. An uncodified ad-hoc modeling process is still common and leads to poor documentation of the analysis. In this article we present a new method for domain analysis based on qualitative data analysis. The method helps identify inconsistencies, ensures a high degree of…

  • Code of conduct for code reviews

    Code of conduct for code reviews

    On Twitter, @arkwrite suggested that a code review should always say something nice and @chaos_monster commented that we need a code of conduct for code reviews. All of this makes sense to me, however, I suggest that we first have a general code of conduct of productive discussions (and most companies have something like it).…

  • Who writes and prioritizes user stories?

    Who writes and prioritizes user stories?

    I updated this post after I realized that it is more about prioritizing user stories than it is about writing them well. In Scrum, a product owner writes user stories to capture requirements and prioritizes them in a product backlog as the upcoming work queue for developers. The main question on my mind is: Who…

  • Product manager vs. product owner

    Product manager vs. product owner

    Alistair Cockburn pointed us to an excellent article by Melissa Perri about the differences between a product manager and (Scrum) product owner. The article clarifies some confusion. I’d like to repeat and emphasize some points that have been omitted (and where I also disagree). Foremost, a product manager works on products for a market (i.e.…