Books

Andreas Birk. A Knowledge Management Infrastructure for Systematic Improvement in Software Engineering. PhD thesis, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, 2001.

In Collection

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.

Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Andreas Birk, Susanne Hartkopf, Wolfgang Müller, Markus Nick, Dagmar Surmann, and Carsten Tautz. Systematic population, utilization, and maintenance of a repository for comprehensive reuse. In Günther Ruhe and Frank Bomarius, editors, Learning Software Organizations - Methodology and Applications, volume 1756 of Lecture Notes of Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, 2000.

Andreas Birk and Felix Kröschel. A knowledge management lifecycle for experience packages on software engineering technologies. In Günther Ruhe and Frank Bomarius, editors, Learning Software Organizations - Methodology and Applications, volume 1756 of Lecture Notes of Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, 2000.

Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Andreas Birk, ChristianeGresse von Wangenheim, and Carsten Tautz. Case-based reasoning for experimental software engineering. In Mario Lenz, Brigitte Bartsch-Spörl, Hans-Dieter Burkhard, and Stefan Wess, editors, Case-Based Reasoning Technology - From Foundations to Applications, chapter9, pages 235–254. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1998.

Journal Articles

Thomas von der Maßen, Andreas Birk, Gerald Heller, Isabel John und Klaus Schmid. Herausforderungen bei industriellen Produktlinien-Entwicklungen. Objektspektrum, No. 5, September 2004.

Andreas Birk, Gerald Heller, Isabel John, Thomas von der Maßen, Klaus Müller, and Klaus Schmid: Product Line Engineering: The State of the Practice. IEEE Software, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 52-60, November/December 2003.

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.

Birk, A.: Wissensmanagement zum besseren Verständnis von Software-Engineering-Technologien. KI, Nr.3, S.66-68, 2001.

Khaled El Emam and Andreas Birk. Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 measures of software development process capability. Journal of Systems and Software, 51(2):119–149, 2000.

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.

Conference Proceedings

Andreas Birk. Patterns für effektive Anforderungsstrukturierung in IT-Projekten. In Proceedings of the 3rd Requirements Engineering Conference (REConf2004), Munich, 2004.

Maßen, T. von der; Birk, A.; Heller, G.; John, I.; Schmid, K.; Joos, S.; Müller, K. Key challenges in industrial product line engineering. In Adelsberger, H.H. ; Eicker, S. ; Krcmar, H. ; Pawlowski, J.M. ; Pohl, K. ; Rombach, H.D. ; Wulf, V.: Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2004. Band 1 : E-Learning: Modelle, Instrumente und Erfahrungen. Software-Produktlinien. Communities in E-Business. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin, 2004.

Kirstin Kohler, Frank Leidermann, and Andreas Birk. Der Weg zu einer stärkeren Verzahnung von Usability Engineering und Software Engineering. In Matthias Peissner and Kerstin Röse, editors, Usability Professionals 2003, Proceedings of the 1st GC-UPA Workshop of the German Chapter der Usability Professionals‘ Association, 2003.

Andreas Birk and Dietmar Pfahl. A systems perspective on software process improvement. In Markku Oivo, Seija Komi-Sirviö, editors, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2002), volume 2559 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 4-18, Berlin, 2002. Springer.

Birk, A.: Three Case Studies on Initiating Product Lines: Enablers and Obstacles. Proceedings of the OOPSLA 2002 PLEES Product Line Engineering Workshop (2002).

Andreas Birk. Identifying and managing information flows in software projects. In Proceedings of the Conquest 2002 conference, Nuremberg, 2002.

Birk, A.; Hartkopf, S.; Müller, W.: Strategien für das Wissensmanagement in Software-Organisationen. In Proceedings of 6th SQM Congress 2001, SQS Gesellschaft für Software-Qualitätssicherung, Bonn, 2001.

Andreas Birk. Aspects of large-scale process studies in industrial settings. In Janice Singer, Margaret-Anne Storey, and Susan Elliot Sim, editors, Proceedings of the ICSE2000 Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches in Empirical Software Engineering Research, Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.

Andreas Birk, Dirk Hamann, and Susanne Hartkopf. A framework for the continuous monitoring and evaluation of improvement programmes. In Markku Oivo and Frank Bomarius, editors, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2000), volume 1840 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 20–35, Berlin, 2000. Springer.

Dietmar Pfahl and Andreas Birk. Using simulation to visualise and analyse product-process dependencies in software development projects. In Markku Oivo and Frank Bomarius, editors, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2000), volume 1840 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 88–102, Berlin, 2000. Springer.

Markku Oivo and Andreas Birk. Improving software development of embedded systems. In Proceedings of the Embedded Sustems Conference Europe, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 2000. CMP Electronics.

Andreas Birk and Wolfgang Müller. Systematic improvement management: A method for defining and controlling customized improvement programs. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Software Quality Week Europe, Brussels, November 2000. Software Research.

Andreas Birk, Pieter Derks, Merja Elf-Mattila, Jorma Hirvensalo, and Rini van Solingen. Product-focused software process improvement: The PROFES improvement methodology and experience from its industrial applications. In Proceedings of the Kongress ‘Software Qualitätsmanagement’ (SQM), Cologne, Germany, April 1999.

Andreas Birk, Dagmar Surmann, and Klaus-Dieter Althoff. Applications of knowledge acquisition in experimental software engineering. In Dieter Fensel and Rudi Studer, editors, Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (EKAW’99), pages 67–84, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, May 1999. Springer Verlag. LNAI Nr. 1621.

Markku Oivo, Andreas Birk, Seija Komi-Sirviö, Pasi Kuvaja, and Rini van Solingen. Establishing product process dependencies in SPI. In Proceedings of the Fourth European Software Engineering Process Group Conference, pages c406b–1–c406b13, Amsterdam, June 1999.

Andreas Birk, Janne Järvinen, and Rini van Solingen. A validation approach for product-focused process improvement. In Markku Oivo and Pasi Kuvaja, editors, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES’99), number 195 in VTT Symposium, pages 29–48, Oulu, Finland, June 1999. VTT Electronics.

Andreas Birk, Ralf Kempkens, Dieter Rombach, and Günther Ruhe. Systematic improvement of software engineering processes. In Wilhelm Hummeltenberg, editor, Proceedings der Frühjahrstagung Wirtschaftsinformatik 1998, pages 265–280, Braunschweig, Germany, 1998. Vieweg.

Andreas Birk and Carsten Tautz. Knowledge Management of Software Engineering Lessons Learned. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pages 116–119, Skokie, IL, 1998. Knowledge Systems Institute.

Andreas Birk, Rini van Solingen, and Janne Jarvinnen. Business impact, benefit, and cost of applying GQM in industry: An in-depth, long-term investigation at Schlumberger RPS. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Software Metrics Symposium, pages 93–96. IEEECSP, 1998.

Andreas Birk, Peter Derks, Dirk Hamann, Jorma Hirvensalo, Markku Oivo, Erik Rodenbach, Rini van Solingen, and Jorma Taramaa. Applications of measurement in product-focused process improvement: A comparative industrial case study. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Software Metrics Symposium, pages 105–108. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1998.

Andreas Birk. Modelling the application domains of software engineering technologies. In Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE International Automated Software Engineering Conference. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997.

Tutorials

Torgeir Dingsøyr, Tore Dybå, Andreas Birk. Mini-Seminar on Knowledge Management in Software Engineering. Tutorial presented at European Conference on Software Process Improvement, EuroSPI 2002, Nuremberg, September 18 - 20, 2002.

Andreas Birk. Practical Knowledge Management for Software Projects. Tutorial presented at the Fourth International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2002), Rovaniemi, Finland, December 2002.

A. Birk and J. Järvinen. Product-driven process improvement using the PROFES improvement methodology. Tutorial presented at the Eleventz International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Management (SEKE 1999), Kaiserslautern, Germany, June, 1999.

Workshops

Seventh International Workshop on Learning Software Organziations (LSO 2005). Workshop at the Third Conference on Provessional Knowledge Management (WM2005), Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 2005. (Co-Chair)

Architekturen verbinden! – Horizontale und vertikale Integration von IT-Systemen und Services in der Praxis. Workshop at INFORMATIK 2004, Ulm, Germany, September 2004. (Organizational Chair)

Der Weg zu einer stärkeren Verzahnung von Usability Engineering und Software Engineering. Practice Session at the 1st GC-UPA Workshop of the German Chapter der Usability Professionals‘ Association, Stuttgart, Germany, September 2003. (Co-Chair)