Seminar • Software Engineering • Inner-Source Software Development

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304.

Dirk Riehle, MBA
Professor of Open Source Software
Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Inner-source software development is the use of open source practices for firm-internal software development. In inner source, developers collaborate across organizational silo boundaries for higher code quality, more code reuse, and better knowledge sharing, while improving employee satisfaction.

In this talk, I will provide an overview of the research domain, including 15 years of our own qualitative research, our more recent quantitative research on the topic, and upcoming experimentation.

Bio: Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle, M.B.A., is the Professor of Open Source Software at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Before joining academia, Riehle led the Open Source Research Group at SAP Labs, LLC, in Palo Alto, California (Silicon Valley). Riehle founded the Open Symposium, now the international conference on open collaboration. He was also the lead architect of the first UML virtual machine.

He is interested in open source and inner-source software engineering, agile software development methods, complexity science and human collaboration, and software system architecture, design, and implementation. Prof. Riehle holds a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zürich and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He welcomes email at dirk@riehle.org, blogs at https://dirkriehle.com, and tweets at @dirkriehle.