The Handbook Method

Speaker:        Prof. Dirk Riehle
                Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Title:          "The Handbook Method"

Date:           Friday, 30 August 2019

Time:           2:00pm - 3:00pm

Venue:          Room 2463 (via lift nos. 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

Theory building and evaluation are the bread and butter work of
scientists. In this talk, I will present a derived research method that
combines qualitative surveys for theory building with case study research
for theory evaluation, called the handbook method. The novelty of our
approach is in using the pattern format for theory codification so that
the result, a handbook, is highly practical and can be applied in industry
case studies. This then leads to both real-world evaluation of the theory
being built as well as self-funded research. We report about first
exploratory studies on validating the method.


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Biography:

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 , blogs at
https://dirkriehle.com/, and tweets as @dirkriehle.