Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Why don’t companies open source more of their in-house code?
John Mark Walker, in a thread started by Matt Asay, nudged me to provide my opinion on the subject matter. Here we go as a Twitter thread. (I’m trying out Twitter collections and threading for the first time; advice on how to do it better is appreciated.)
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Upcoming industry talk on Agile Architekturentwicklung beim Aufbau einer Cloud-Plattform by Marcus Mennemeier of Actano GmbH
We will host an industry talk on “Agile Architekturentwicklung beim Aufbau einer Cloud-Plattform” in AMOS, our agile methods course. The talk is free and open to the public. Speaker: Marcus Mennemeier verfügt über 20 Jahre Erfahrung in IT-Projekten für die Automobil-, IT- und Medienbranche. Dabei hat er sich als Unternehmer und Geschäftsführer vor allem mit…
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Upcoming industry talk on Agile in Research by Carina Haupt of Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
We will host an industry talk on “Agile in research” in AMOS, our agile methods course. The talk is free and open to the public. Abstract: Software development became an important part of research. Software development processes not so much. But this is changing. The problem thereby is that industrial software development processes do not…
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Upcoming industry talk on Inside an Agile Transformation of 1000+ Employees by Samir Keck of Zalando
We will host an industry talk on “Inside an agile transformation of +1.000 employees” in AMOS, our agile methods course. The talk is free and open to the public. Abstract: Zalando introduced “Radical Agility” to all their software-engineering teams. What are the conditions Zalando applied around that change? How did the transformation work? What had…
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Why companies don’t always free-ride on open source projects
I presented on open source foundations earlier this week to economist friends at TU Munich. I naturally got the question about freeriding: Why does anyone contribute to open source projects, if they could do something else with their time? The cinch: This time we are talking about companies, not invididual people, so the arguments about…
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Upcoming industry talk on Continuous Delivery by Thomas Fricke of Endocode
We will host an industry talk on “Continuous Delivery” in AMOS, our agile methods course. The talk is free and open to the public. Abstract: The lecture will motivate CD by the time-to-market aspect of the business needs. Software only contributes to business value if it is running for some purpose, ideally for a customer.…