Latest in Industry and Research Publications
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Using Students as a Distributed Coding Team for Validation through Intercoder Agreement [Technical Report]
Abstract: In qualitative research, results often emerge through an analysis process called coding. A common measure of validity of theories built through qualitative research is the agreement between different people coding the same materials. High intercoder agreement indicates that the findings are derived from the data as opposed to being relative results based on the…
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That New Agile Delivery Terminology
Old New Engineering Manager Delivery Lead Director of Engineering Delivery Head Vice President of Engineering Delivery Hero I see a trademark conflict brewing… (not really, trademarks are scoped by domain, there probably is little confusion between a retail service and a corporate role).
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An Alternative View of Funding for Innovation
My rant on what’s wrong with Industrie 4.0 argued that it focuses too narrowly on too incremental a domain. The real tectonic change of the last 20-30 years in my opinion is the speed of innovation that software gives you over any other technology domain. Whatever the gadget or concept, if you can add software…
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What’s wrong with Industrie 4.0?
Short answer A lot. The overly narrow focus on a particular domain of innovation starves the support for innovation is other domains, making Germany lose out in those domains. This has been bugging me for some time now. Longer answer Somehow German politics declared “Industrie 4.0” (industry 4.0) to be a major area of innovation…
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Some Progress on Wikipedia Editing
Wikipedia has long been suffering from its rather raw “wiki markup” editing experience. The reason is that the underlying software is stuck in the mud and any progress is slow and painful. Right now there is some excitement over progress on the “visual editor” of Mediawiki. As you can see in the video below the…
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Open Source Collaboration—The Other Open Source Innovation (in German)
Below, please find a blog post in preparation of the Bitkom OSS Forum in July 2016. Open-Source-Software ist zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil von Softwareprodukten geworden. Es gibt praktisch keine Software mehr, die nicht auch auf Open Source aufbaut. Unternehmen, welche Open-Source-Software in ihren Produkten verwenden, machen sich meist Sorgen um die rechtlichen Konsequenzen, welche Open-Source-Lizenzen…