Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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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.…
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Professors and startups
My primary goal in becoming a professor was to turn my (hoped-for excellent) research and teaching into startups. For that reason I created the Startupinformatik program and set-up my teaching to support it. Sadly, I’ve been noticing over the years that things don’t seem to get easier but harder. Specifically, “the system” (I’ll explain below)…
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But what if someone steals my inner source code?
During my talk at the inner source summit, I was asked about the following worry with establishing inner source at a company: But if we lay all source code open within the company, don’t we run the risk that a disgruntled employee has it too easy to steal all code and publish it on the…
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Slides for keynote at Inner Source Commons Summit at Bosch
Today, I gave a keynote at the 2018 spring Inner Source Commons summit at Bosch, in Renningen, Germany. I talked about our experiences with ten years of inner source projects at the companies we have been working with. The slides are available as a PDF. The photo above is from the first keynote of the…
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Output of a 3D metal printer
According to my hosts, this object took 34h to print.
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FOSS compliance intensive seminar June 14-15th, 2018 in Berlin (in German)
Catharina Maracke’s Software Compliance Academy writes to us: