Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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M.B.A.s or engineers for product management?
I teach product management at a public German engineering school, where I am a professor of computer science. Product management is my nod towards “business informatics”, otherwise I only teach engineering courses (and one general how-to-perform-research class). There is an old debate as to who makes better product managers: M.B.A.s or engineers? Having worked on…
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Where to focus a University incubator
Fueled by the success of Silicon Valley startups and other success stories, there probably isn’t a single university today which would not like to foster startups from their student ranks. There is a lot to be said about how to do that, but before all operational decisions, a university incubator needs to know where to…
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For posteriority and reuse
FIWare is a large EU-sponsored program. It has a mission (“about”) statement. Specifically: FIWare is an open initiative aiming to create a sustainable ecosystem to grasp the opportunities that will emerge with the new wave of digitalization caused by the integration of recent Internet technologies. […] Below is a screenshot documenting the project.
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![From developer networks to verified communities: A fine-grained approach [ICSE 2015]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10416-porto-blue-cafe-at-night-300x150.jpg)
From developer networks to verified communities: A fine-grained approach [ICSE 2015]
Abstract Effective software engineering demands a coordinated effort. Unfortunately, a comprehensive view on developer coordination is rarely available to support software-engineering decisions, despite the significant implications on software quality, software architecture, and developer productivity. We present a fine-grained, verifiable, and fully automated approach to capture a view on developer coordination, based on commit information and…
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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…