Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

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  • Options to have your open-source software and sustain it too

    Options to have your open-source software and sustain it too

    I’m just off a call with a public official discussing their options for an open source future. The topic was the domain-specific software needed by any agency, institution, or government (not generic office or infrastructure software). How to have software for managing health insurance, or school planning, or public transport to be open-source software? At…

  • What to look for in startup co-founders and early employees

    What to look for in startup co-founders and early employees

    I have created and participated in several software product startups during my early industry career, and I have created and participated in several as a professor. I intend to do so for many more to come. I’m talking about startups that intend to raise venture capital and become high-growth success stories. Recruiting is job #1…

  • Who gets to do velocity and burndown charts in Scrum?

    Who gets to do velocity and burndown charts in Scrum?

    In Scrum, velocity charts display the story points achieved in a given sprint, and a burndown chart displays the total size of features you expect to deliver in future sprints until the end of the project release cycle, typically with the goal of reaching zero remaining features to be done. I teach Scrum at German…

  • You just don’t understand (open source edition)

    You just don’t understand (open source edition)

    Listening to open source developers complaining about companies not donating money and then getting ignored by said companies reminds me of a quarreling couple, where one side has a lot to say and the other side is just silent. Let me turn this silence into statements a company would make. Let’s go! Open source developer:…

  • The future of the open source definition [Computer Magazine]

    The future of the open source definition [Computer Magazine]

    I’m happy to report that the 26th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title The Future of the Open Source Definition Keywords Open source definition Authors Dirk Riehle Publication Computer vol. 56, no. 12 (December 2023), pp. 95-99 Abstract: Many forces pull to change the definitions of what free…

  • Open source dependencies are investments

    Open source dependencies are investments

    The Linux Foundation’s research arm just published a report about interviews with 32 maintainers of critical open source projects (local copy). Only 62% of these maintainers, i.e. 20 people, were employed by their organizations to work on these open source components. I consider this low and would have expected a higher number. What’s worse, only…