Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

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  • The Pegel Alarm open data challenge (a thread)

    The Pegel Alarm open data challenge (a thread)

    The struggles of @LilithWittmann to make the Handelsregister of Germany freely available and easily accessible reminded me of our own struggles with different German state-level organizations, trying to get access to open data for rivers and water ways in 2014. 1/ We had developed an open-source app called PegelAlarm @EichhornPhilipp (now defunct) which lets users…

  • Open source and the hyphen

    Open source and the hyphen

    You may have seen the repeated fights over whether open-source software should be spelled with a hyphen or not. It just flared up on Wikipedia, again. The rules are clear, in my opinion. Still, the situation is a misery. First things first: If “open source” is used as an adjective (attribute) in front of a…

  • Two issue break of IEEE Computer Column Open Source Expanded

    Two issue break of IEEE Computer Column Open Source Expanded

    Thanks to this editor’s inability to wield their whip effectively, the IEEE Computer magazine’s open source column is taking a two issue break: There wasn’t an August 2022 article and there won’t be an October 2022 article in IEEE Computer magazine. We will resume our regular bi-monthly schedule in December 2022. Until then you may…

  • Management accounting concepts for inner-source software engineering [ICSOB 2022]

    Management accounting concepts for inner-source software engineering [ICSOB 2022]

    Abstract: Inner source software development is the use of open source development’s best practices inside a company. In inner source, developers collaborate on reusable software components across company-internal organizational silo boundaries for mutual benefit. As such, inner source goes against the grain of traditional management techniques. In this article, we present two conceptual models of…

  • A research model for the economic assessment of inner-source software development [HICSS 2023]

    A research model for the economic assessment of inner-source software development [HICSS 2023]

    Abstract: Inner source is the use of open-source practices within companies. It enables more efficient software development, shortens time-to-market, and lowers costs through increased company-internal collaboration. While existing studies examine social and organizational impact factors on inner source adoption, only a few have looked at measuring and economically assessing inner source. This article presents an…

  • Open-source software governance: A case study evaluation of supply-chain management best practices [HICSS 2023]

    Open-source software governance: A case study evaluation of supply-chain management best practices [HICSS 2023]

    Abstract: Corporate open source governance aims to manage the increasing use of free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) in companies. To avoid the risks of the ungoverned use, companies need to establish processes addressing license compliance, component approval, and supply chain management (SCM). We proposed a set of industry-inspired best practices for supply chain management…