Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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The corporate open source strategy [Rebooting Computing Conference]
Today I’m giving a talk on the corporate open source strategy at the TTI Vanguard Rebooting Computing conference. In the available 30 min. I’m focusing on the perspective of software users, as this is not a conference for the software industry but for everyone else (with a stronghold in financial services). Below please find a…
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Upcoming talks in June and July 2023
2023-05-31: User-led open source projects (free, in person, in Berlin) at Open Logistics Foundation’s Open Source Innovation Day 2023 2023-06-23: The corporate open source strategy (commercial, in person, in Montreal) at the TTI/Vanguard Rebooting Computing conference 2023-06-26: Creating a ROS Distribution (free, in person, in Lisbon) at INESC-ID / University of Lisbon respectively, courtesy of…
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Visual spaghetti robotics edition
Ever since the Intrinsic launch event a few weeks back, I wanted to write a long article on how the shown approach of visual programming for robotics is likely to fail. This prediction is based on forty years of experience with visual spaghetti in software engineering. I never got around writing a long blog post,…
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Why Scrum projects are harder at a university than in industry
I teach distributed Scrum to student teams every semester. Sometimes, industry tells me how much easier it must be to run Scrum projects at a university rather than “in real life” i.e. in industry. I beg to differ: Running Scrum projects at a university is much harder than running Scrum projects in industry, for the…
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Lessons learned from the Ant Group open source program office (Xia et al., IEEE Computer Column)
I’m happy to report that the 24th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Lessons Learned From the Ant Group Open Source Program Office Keywords — Authors Xiaoya Xia, Wei Wang, Shengyu Zhao, Sikang Bian, Rong Wang Publication Computer vol. 56, no. 4 (April 2023), pp. 92-97 Abstract: This…
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Open Source Explained lecture in TUM lecture series on digital sustainability
Today I had the pleasure of giving a talk about open source in the TUM lecture series on digital sustainability, organized by Alexander Pretschner of TU Munich, bidt, and TU Wien. The talk was in German and streamed, but not recorded. Below please find my slides.