QM in Agile Development: How can we optimally integrate the advantages of the agile world with the accomplishments of traditional QM? Solutions, case studies, and experience will be presented at SWPM's training on March 6, 2012, in Stuttgart. (Training Calendar)
Tool-Based RM: Dr. Andreas Birk and Gerald Heller will give a talk on practices for tool-based requirements management at REConf 2012 on March 14, 2012, in Munich. (Event Page)
RM for Software Variants: SWPM will give a tutorial on "RM for Product Lines and Software Variants" at REConf 2012 on March 15, 2012, in Munich. (Event Page)
Symposium Software Architecture: The call for papers for the second Symposium "Software Architecture" is open until March 19. (Conference Homepage)
Software Product Management: The next SWPM training that prepares for "Certified Software Product Manager" of ISPMA will take place on April 24-26, 2012, in Stuttgart. (Training Calendar)
Publications
Software.Process.Management publishes regularly at national and international conferences and in journals and web-publications. We also are engaged at regional events and network meetings.
A selection of our past publications:
Presentations
Andreas Birk. Requirements-Engineering und -Management in Produktmanagement und Produktlinien-Entwicklung. Annual Meeting of GI FG Requirements Engineering, Berlin, November 2007.
Andreas Birk. Prozessinseln überbrücken: Wie IT und Entwicklung von integrierten Abläufen profitieren. Hewlett Packard VIVIT User Forum, Montabaur, Germany, November 2007.
Andreas Birk. Success with Variants: How to Establish Product Line Engineering That Lasts. 2nd Conference on Model-Driven Development and Product Lines, Leipzig, Germany, September 2007.
Thomas Nebe and Andreas Birk. IT Management Software Lifecycle Portfolio Überblick und Einordnung. Hewlett Packard VIVIT User Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, June 2007.
2007
Andreas Birk and Gerald Heller. Challenges for Requirements Engineering and Management in Software Product Line Development. Proceedings of REFSQ 2007, International Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Trondheim, Norway, June 2007.
Danilo Beuche, Andreas Birk, Heinrich Dreier, Andreas Fleischmann, Isabel John, Ramin Tavakoli Kolagari, Heidi Galle, Gerald Gerald Heller, Dirk Janzen, Thomas von der Massen. Using Requirements Management Tools in Software Product Line Engineering: The State of the Practice. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2007.
2006
Andreas Birk. Erfahrungen mit Anwendungsfallspezifikation bei der Entwicklung großer IT-Systeme. Jahrestreffen der GI-Fachgruppe Requirements Engineering, München, November 2006.
Andreas Birk and Gerald Heller. Successful Product Line Development with Strong Requirements Engineering and Management. Tutorial at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE06), Minneapolis, MN, September 2006.
Andreas Birk, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Stefanie N. Lindstaedt, Kurt Schneider. Learning Software Organisations and Requirements Engineering: First International Workshop (LSO+RE 2006). Journal of Universal Knowledge Management (J.UKM), 1(2), 2006.
2005 and earlier
Andreas Birk. Architekturen verbinden: Projektbeispiele aus einem Informatik 2004 Workshop. Objektspektrum, No. 4, Juli 2005.
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Andreas Birk. Three Case Studies on Initiating Product Lines: Enablers and Obstacles. Proceedings of the OOPSLA 2002 PLEES Product Line Engineering Workshop, 2002.
Andreas Birk, Torgeir Dingsøyr, and Tor Stålhane: Postmortem: Never Leave a Project without It. IEEE Software, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 43-45, May/June 2002.
Khaled El Emam and Andreas Birk. Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 measure of software requirements analysis process capability. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 26(6):541–566, June 2000.
Andreas Birk and Dieter Rombach. A practical approach to continuous improvement in software engineering. In D.B.Meyerhoff M.J.Wieczorek, editor, Software Quality – State of te Art in Management, Testing, and Tools, software quality@Xpert.press. Springer, Berlin, 2000.