Latest in Industry and Research Publications
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![How developers acquire FLOSS skills [OSS 2015]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10410-berlin-building-evening-sun-300x150.jpg)
How developers acquire FLOSS skills [OSS 2015]
Abstract: With the increasing prominence of open collaboration as found in free/libre/open source software projects and other joint production communities, potential participants need to acquire skills. How these skills are learned has received little research attention. This article presents a large-scale survey (5,309 valid responses) in which users and developers of the beta release of…
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![Improving traceability of requirements through qualitative data analysis [SE 2015]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10411-damen-herren-smoking-300x150.jpg)
Improving traceability of requirements through qualitative data analysis [SE 2015]
Abstract Traceability is an important quality aspect in modern software development. It facilitates the documentation of decisions and helps identifying conflicts regarding the conformity of one artifact to another. We propose a new approach to requirements engineering that utilizes qualitative research methods, which have been well established in the domain of social science. Our approach…
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The Wall Street Journal and Berlin reporting
The Wall Street Journal provides a nice infographic on the “billion dollar club“, that is, startups of valuation $1B or above. In Europe, the WSJ counts six >$1B startups, of which one is in Amsterdam (Adyen), one is in Stockholm (Spotify) and two are in London (Powa, Shazam) and Berlin (Delivery Hero, Home24). In addition,…
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Public upcoming talks on open source and inner source
A bit belated, I’m happy to announce two upcoming talks: Both talks are accessible to the public, see the flyers.
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Hackathons and 20% time
According to this article, Google’s 20% time never really existed. I’ve always guessed as much, joking with Google friends that their 20% time really could only be taken on Saturday and Sunday. Which is all the same: Engaged employees do what they feel needs to be done no matter what and when. Hackathons, however, exist.…
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Should children learn to code?
According to the WordPress summary of my site, the most popular post in 2014 was “Should You Learn to Code?”, beating out the perennial favorite “The Single-Vendor Commercial Open Source Business Model”. Obviously, the broader the interest, the more readers. This morning I read about the call by a German politician to introduce mandatory programming…