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FAU Start-up Mydosis Seeking Cofounder or Employee #1

Mydosis, a FAU student start-up that recently received seed stage funding, is looking for an additional co-founder or employee #1. We are looking for a student and/or experienced Java software developer to help us take http://mydosis.de to the next stage. Mydosis is a community portal for pediatric dosage information. If a Medical Doctor (M.D.) prescribes a drug to an infant today, in 90% of all cases, this drug will not have been approved for infants nor is there validated information provided by the drug makers. Basically, M.D.s are left to their own devices, and the Mydosis community portal, operating on the Wiki(pedia) principle is its first and one-stop shop for self-help. (The Mydosis blog has more information, and we also posted here about it (in German). More on the business model as we engage.) We are looking for a technical person to help develop the company software further. You can join the founding team as a co-founder and receive a salary or be paid in equity. Other models are possible too. We are interested in capable technical people and compensation will be commensurate with your energy and experience (FAU students are welcome). If you are interested, please contact Markus Stipp (project leader) or Dirk Riehle (scientific advisor).

Impressions from 2011 AMOS Project Student Presentations

Next to the regular sprint rhythm, students perform specialized functions in the AMOS project, our annual agile methods and open source lab course. Below please find photo impressions from an acceptance testing, test plan management, and user experience session, all led by students.

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Impressions from 2011 AMOS Project Sprint Review Session

The AMOS projects is our annual student lab course teaching agile methods and open source programming. We release on a weekly basis, using one-week sprints. Thus, every week in the main exercise session, we go through a review, release, and retrospective process to close the current sprint, and start the new sprint with a planning session. Below, please find some impressions from a sprint review session.

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Impressions from 2011 AMOS Project Sprint Planning Session

The AMOS projects is our annual student lab course teaching agile methods and open source programming. Below, please find some impressions from a sprint planning session. For those interested, the 2011 AMOS Product Backlog is online and public. The project website itself is fsahoy.com.

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Weekly Links: AMOS, PROD, and FIRM

New Free Seas Ahoy! Weekly Release

We just released this week’s sprint results of the 2011 AMOS project “Free Seas Ahoy!” – what’s remarkable is a new design making it look very nice. Work, of course, continues on the underlying features. Thanks team, great job!!

Three photos appended, check out http://fsahoy.com, the free social network for sailors (work in progress).

Here is how it looked before the release:

And here is how it looked after deployment:

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Impressions from Michael Kircher’s AMOS Talk on Scaling Agility

Today, Michael Kircher, department manager at Siemens Healtcare, introduced “scaling agility” (read: large-scale distributed Scrum) to the students of the 2011 AMOS Project class. Students were listening and questioning attentively. Some impressions below. Thank you, Michael, for teaching us!

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Scrum Impressions from 2011 AMOS Project Free Seas Ahoy!

The 2011 AMOS project, “Free Seas Ahoy!”, is well under way. Below you can get an impression from a sprint planning session. Enjoy! And if you want to know more about this type of project, check out the AMOS project concept paper (in German).

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SS 2011 Lecture and Lab Course: Agile Methods and Open Source

“Agile Methods and Open Source” combines lectures on agile methods and open source software development with a lab course that applies what is being learned. This semester, we will be developing a social networking platform for sailors, combining web services, Facebook, Android, and more. [...]

Read more (in German).