Category: 3. Research and Teaching
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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…
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A solution for automated grading of QDA homework [HICSS 2023]
Abstract: Teaching research methods is important in any curriculum that prepares students for an academic career. While theoretical frameworks for qualitative theory building can be adequately conveyed through lecturing, the practices of qualitative data analysis (QDA) cannot. However, using experiential learning techniques for teaching QDA methods to large numbers of students presents a challenge to…
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Incentivizing German Universities to Capitalize on Their Intellectual Property
In a recent position paper, SPRIN-D, an innovation agency of the German government, proposed that universities license their intellectual property (IP) to university startups in return for virtual shares. This approach is suggested as a practice to work around universities who stall startup licensing deals due to unrealistic assumptions (e.g. lump-sum upfront payment). The problem…
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Upcoming talk on scaling agile with SAFe® by Oliver Diller of Siemens
We will be hosting an industry talk on “Scaling Agile with SAFe®”. The talk is free and open to the public. Abstract Siemens Smart Infrastructure IT started its agile transition about 3 years ago. After having reached a good agile maturity on a team level, they are now aiming to establish agility on an organizational…
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Upcoming talk on agile methodologies in data analytics by Michael Schrapp of Siemens Healthineers
We will be hosting an industry talk on “Agile Methodologies in Data Analytics”. The talk is free and open to the public. Abstract Agile methods like Scrum, Kanban or scaled agile frameworks play a crucial role in software development since decades. In data science or data analytics in general, these methods are utilized as well;…
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Upcoming talk on using agile methods in the development of medical software by Dr.-Ing. Thomas Göthel of BIOTRONIK
We will be hosting an industry talk on “Using Agile Methods in the Development of Medical Software”. The talk is free and open to the public. Abstract An example of medical software is backend software for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes based on telemetry data of pacemakers. Such software products can provably reduce the mortality rate…