Software Engineering Radio

Recording Venue: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

Guest: Georg von Krogh

Open source development has had a major impact on both private and public development and use of software. This is an interview with one of the key researchers on open source development, Professor Georg von Krogh of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. The interview focuses on the current state of open source development, characteristics of successful open source projects, what management science can learn from the open source community, what motivates open source developers, and research questions related to open source development.

• Management Science: Special Issue on Open Source Software
• IEEE Software special issue: Developing with Open Source Software
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Recording Venue:
Guest(s): Luke Hohmann

Host(s): Markus
In this episode we talk about the relationship between software architecture and the business. Based on his book, Beyond Software Architecture we discuss how things such as branding, licensing, updating or different deployment scenarios influence the technical architecture of a system. We also discuss issues such as portability that add a huge amount of complexity, although from a business perspective it often does not make much sense. In the second part of the interview we discuss how the technical team and the business team can improve the way they work together. We look at some of the games (such as Buy a Feature or Give them a Hot Tub) from his new book Innovation Games, which discusses how to use collaborative play to be more creative and innovative in product creation.

Links:

• Book: Innovation Games
• Luke’s web site
• Book: Beyond Software Architecture

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