Publications: Books & Reports

My monographs consist of my Ph.D. thesis and the handbooks on improvement methodologies that resulted from consortium projects in which I participated.

A. Birk, A knowledge management infrastructure for systematic improvement in software engineering. Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, Stuttgart, 2001. [Online]. Available: https://publica.fraunhofer.de/entities/publication/5a415b71-5325-4c8d-b21c-9739028a48a1

PROFES Consortium, PROFES manual: The PROFES improvement methodology. Stuttgart, Germany: Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, 2000. [Online]. Available: https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/290465

A. Birk, P. Giese, R. Kempkens, H. D. Rombach, and G. Ruhe, Eds., The PERFECT handbook, volume 4: Application of PERFECT, vol. 4, 4 vols. in IESE-Report, no. 062.97/E, vol. 4. Kaiserslautern, Germany: Fraunhofer-Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering IESE, 1997. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-54325.html

A. Birk, P. Giese, R. Kempkens, H. D. Rombach, and G. Ruhe, Eds., The PERFECT handbook, volume 3: Process enactment, vol. 3, 4 vols. in IESE-Report, no. 061.97/E, vol. 3. Kaiserslautern, Germany: Fraunhofer-Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering IESE, 1997. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-54324.html

A. Birk, P. Giese, R. Kempkens, H. D. Rombach, and G. Ruhe, Eds., The PERFECT handbook, volume 2: Infrastructure technologies, vol. 2, 4 vols. in IESE-Report, no. 060.97/E, vol. 2. Kaiserslautern, Germany: Fraunhofer-Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering IESE, 1997. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-54323.html

A. Birk, P. Giese, R. Kempkens, H. D. Rombach, and G. Ruhe, Eds., The PERFECT handbook, volume 1: Improvement methodology, vol. 1, 4 vols. in IESE-Report, no. 059.97/E, vol. 1. Kaiserslautern, Germany: Fraunhofer-Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering IESE, 1997. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-54322.html