Publications: Presentations

I presented regularly at conferences, workshops, and community events until 2019. Until 2000, I focused on scientific events; nowadays, I focus on industry conferences and networks. Since 2020, I have frequently presented to membership-based online communities that are not listed here.

A. Birk, “Wie ein guter Schuh, der passt: Requirements-Tools agil einführen,” presented at the 15. Requirements Engineering Tagung REConf 2019, Munich, Mar. 11, 2019.

A. Birk, “Was heißt hier Product Owner? – Agiles GPS mit RE-Routenplaner,” presented at the 15. Requirements Engineering Tagung REConf 2018, Munich, Mar. 05, 2018.

A. Birk, “Requirements, die neue Generation: Fit für Customer Experience, Lean Startup und Agile,” presented at the 15. Requirements Engineering Tagung REConf 2017, Munich, Mar. 27, 2017.

A. Birk, “Struktur vor Inhalt: Wie organisieren wir komplexe Requirements?,” presented at the 15. Requirements Engineering Tagung REConf 2016, Unterschleißheim, Germany, Mar. 01, 2016.

A. Birk, “In der Struktur liegt die Kraft: Requirements optimal organisieren,” presented at the agosense.CONNECT 2016, Kornwestheim, Germany, Jan. 28, 2016.

A. Birk, “RE, BA, agile etc.: The many faces of requirements and what we may learn from them,” presented at the REConf 2015, Unterschleißheim, Germany, Mar. 17, 2015.

A. Birk, “Requirements endlich ‘richtig’: Moderne Requirements-Tools erfolgreich einführen und nutzen,” presented at the GI/GChACM Regionalgruppe Stuttgart/Böblingen, Stuttgart, Germany, Mar. 02, 2015.

A. Birk, “Requirements endlich ‘richtig’: Moderne Requirements-Tools erfolgreich einführen und nutzen,” presented at the GI Regionalgruppe München, Arbeitskreis “Requirements,” Munich, Nov. 19, 2014.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Requirements Management mit HP ALM/QC,” presented at the Treffen der unabhängigen HP Software Anwendervereinigung Vivit Germany, Bad Neuenahr, Germany, Oct. 01, 2014.

A. Birk, “Requirements endlich ‘richtig’: Moderne Requirements-Tools erfolgreich einführen und nutzen,” presented at the ASQF FG Requirements Engineering, Franken, Erlangen, Germany, Jun. 03, 2014.

A. Gürtler, S. Mattern, A. Birk, and G. Heller, “Pferdewechsel bei vollem Galopp: Toolwechsel und Weiterentwicklung des RE in einer großen, komplexen Plattformentwicklung,” presented at the REConf 2014, Munich, Mar. 11, 2014.

P. Schinzel and A. Birk, “Success Factors of Agile Software Development: Experiences from A Multi-Year International Project for Restructuring and Extension of a Product Platform,” presented at the 7. Scrum-Day 2013, Berlin, Jun. 12, 2013.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Requirements flexibel und agil managen: Requirements-Praktiken am Beispiel Contour,” presented at the Webinar der QA Systems Akademie, Apr. 11, 2013.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Requirements strukturieren und nutzen: Requirements-Praktiken am Beispiel Contour,” presented at the Webinar der QA Systems Akademie, Mar. 22, 2013.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Tool-gestütztes Requirements-Management: Richtig effizient mit System,” presented at the Business Requirement Day, W-JAX 2012 Conference, Munich, Nov. 06, 2012.

A. Birk, “Agile Software-Requirements: User Stories und (Vieles) mehr,” presented at the GI/GChACM Regionalgruppe Stuttgart/Böblingen, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 08, 2012.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Einführung von Requirements-Management mit HP QC in der Entwicklung technischer Systeme,” presented at the Treffen der unabhängigen HP Software Anwendervereinigung Vivit Germany, Bad Honnef, Germany, Sep. 26, 2012.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Tool-gestütztes Requirements-Management: Richtig effizient mit System,” presented at the Swiss Requirements Day 2012, Zurich, Jun. 20, 2012.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Tool-gestütztes Requirements-Management: Richtig effizient mit System,” presented at the 11. Requirements Engineering Tagung REConf 2012, Munich, Mar. 14, 2012.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Qualitätsmanagement in der  agilen Software-Entwicklung: Neue Chancen nutzen,” presented at the 3. ASQF Software Testing Day Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 20, 2011.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Agile Software Entwicklung und QM: Neue Chancen für effektive Zusammenarbeit im Projekt,” presented at the HP Schweiz Business Brunch, Zurich, Sep. 20, 2011.

A. Birk, “Anforderungsmanagement mit  HP Requirements Management: Vorteile durch effektive Prozess/Tool-Integration,” presented at the Webinar HP Software, Aug. 29, 2011.

A. Birk, “Anforderungsmanagement mit  HP Requirements Management: Vorteile durch effektive Prozess/Tool-Integration,” presented at the Webinar HP Software, Jul. 08, 2011.

A. Birk and F. Prester, “Anforderungsbasiertes Testen mit .getmore und HP Quality Center,” presented at the QualityConf 2011, Die Konferenz für Testexperten, Munich, Mar. 31, 2011.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Requirements-Management mit  HP Quality Center: Anwendererfahrungen und Diskussion,” presented at the Session der HP Software Anwendercommunity Vivit TQA, QualityConf 2011, Die Konferenz für Testexperten, Munich, Mar. 31, 2011.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Testmanagement und Testautomatisierung mit HP Quality Center: Anwendererfahrungen und Diskussion,” presented at the Session der HP Software Anwendercommunity Vivit TQA, QualityConf 2011, Die Konferenz für Testexperten, Munich, Mar. 30, 2011.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Requirements-Engineering für Varianten und Produktlinien: Good Practice und Erfahrungen,” presented at the 10. Requirements Engineering Tagung REConf 2011, Munich, Mar. 16, 2011.

A. Birk and F. Prester, “Anforderungsbasiertes Testen mit .getmore und HP Quality Center,” presented at the 10. Requirements Engineering Tagung REConf 2011, Munich, Mar. 15, 2011.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Was heißt hier agil? Ein Überblick und Hypothesen zum Testen in der agilen Software-Entwicklung,” presented at the Forum Testmanagement der ASQF Regionalgruppe BW-Test, Karlsruhe, Germany, Dec. 04, 2010.

A. Herrmann and A. Birk, “Requirements-Engineering: Einführung und aktuelle Trends,” presented at the GI/GChACM Regionalgruppe Stuttgart/Böblingen, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 27, 2010.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Herausforderungen bei agiler Entwicklung und agilem Testen,” presented at the Treffen der unabhängigen HP Software Anwendervereinigung Vivit Germany, Bad Honnef, Germany, Sep. 14, 2010.

A. Birk, “Best Practice im Requirements-basierten Testen: Verfahren und Erfahrungen,” presented at the Forum Testmanagement der ASQF Regionalgruppe BW-Test, Stuttgart, Germany, Jul. 15, 2010.

A. Birk, H.-J. Eisenbach, H. Hanisch, B. Moritz, A. Schlatter, and M. Schlich, “Wege durch den Testmanagement-Dschungel,” presented at the 30. Treffen der GI-Fachgruppe “Testen, Analyse und Verifikation von Software,” Munich, Jun. 16, 2010. [Online]. Available: http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~winter/tav/html/tav30/text.htm#v10

A. Birk, “Requirements Management erfolgreich im Unternehmen verankern,” presented at the Arbeitskreis “Requirements” der GI-Regionalgruppe München, Munich, Apr. 19, 2010.

A. Birk, G. Heller, D. Janzen, and M.-O. Reiser, “Wo steht das Requirements-Engineering? – Bewertung und Gegenüberstellung von RE-Frameworks,” presented at the Treffen der GI-Fachgruppe “Requirements Engineering,” Essen, Germany, Nov. 26, 2009.

A. Birk, H. Dreier, G. Heller, and K. Schmid, “Requirements-Engineering-Frameworks und Produktlinien: Arbeitskreisbericht,” presented at the Treffen der GI-Fachgruppe “Requirements Engineering,” Essen, Germany, Nov. 26, 2009.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Anforderungsmanagement für die industrielle Produktentwicklung,” presented at the REConf Schweiz 2009 Requirements-Engineering Tagung, Zurich, Sep. 24, 2009.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Anforderungsmanagement für die industrielle Produktentwicklung,” presented at the 8. Requirements Engineering Tagung REConf 2009, Munich, Mar. 11, 2009.

D. Beuche et al., “Requirements-Engineering-Frameworks und Produktlinien: Vorstellung des GI-Arbeitskreises,” presented at the 8. Requirements Engineering Tagung REConf 2009, Munich, Mar. 09, 2009.

T. Lingenfelder and A. Birk, “A testing infrastructure for highly available, internet-based banking  applications at ING-DiBa,” presented at the HP SOFTWARE UNIVERSE, Vienna, Dec. 08, 2008.

A. Birk, G. Heller, D. Janzen, and K. Schmid, “Orientierung in der Landschaft des Requirements-Engineering: Ein Überblick über RE-Frameworks und ihre Anwendungsgebiete,” presented at the FG RE: Bericht und Beiträge vom Treffen der Fachgruppe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Nov. 28, 2008.

A. Birk, “Produktlinien: Arbeitskreisbericht,” presented at the FG RE: Bericht und Beiträge vom Treffen der Fachgruppe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Nov. 27, 2008.

A. Birk, “Testmanagement unter dem Einfluss der Software-Industrialisierung,” presented at the Fachtagung Software-Managment 2008 (SWM 2008), Stuttgart, Germany, Nov. 13, 2008.

A. Birk, “Testmanagement in großen IT-Projekten:  Fallstudien, Erfahrungen und Trends,” presented at the Arbeitskreis “Wirtschaftsinformatik” der Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, Jun. 26, 2008.

A. Birk, “Requirements-Management und Testen effektiv integrieren,” presented at the 27. Treffen der GI-Fachgruppe “Testen, Analyse und Verifikation von Software,” Bad Honnef, Germany, Jun. 05, 2008. [Online]. Available: http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~winter/tav/html/tav27/zeit.htm

A. Birk, “Requirements-Engineering und -Management in Produktmanagement und Produktlinien-Entwicklung: Überblick und Standortbestimmung,” presented at the Universität Stuttgart, Lehrstuhl für ABL und WI II (Unternehmenssoftware), Stuttgart, Germany, Apr. 22, 2008.

A. Birk, “Use-Cases in der Praxis: Effiziente Requirements-Spezifikation für Software-Systeme,” presented at the GI/GChACM Regionalgruppe Stuttgart/Böblingen, Stuttgart, Germany, Apr. 16, 2008.

A. Birk, “Besonderheiten des Testens für unterschiedliche Geschäftsdomänen & Systemtypen,” presented at the Forum Testmanagement der ASQF Regionalgruppe BW-Test, Stuttgart, Germany, Apr. 10, 2008.

A. Birk, “Anforderung und Test: Ein ungleiches Paar, glücklich vereint,” presented at the 7. Requirements Engineering Tagung REConf 2008, Munich, Mar. 12, 2008.

A. Birk, “Erfolgreiche Produktlinien-Einführung: Prozesse und organisatorische Voraussetzungen,” presented at the pure::variants user meeting 2007, Eisenach, Germany, Dec. 07, 2007.

A. Birk et al., “Requirements-Engineering-Frameworks und Produktlinien: Zwischenbericht des Arbeitskreises,” presented at the Treffen der GI-Fachgruppe “Requirements Engineering,” Berlin, Nov. 29, 2007.

A. Birk, “Requirements-Engineering und -Management in Produktmanagement und Produktlinien-Entwicklung,” presented at the Treffen der GI-Fachgruppe “Requirements Engineering,” Berlin, Nov. 29, 2007.

A. Birk, “Prozessinseln überbrücken: Wie IT und Entwicklung von integrierten Abläufen profitieren,” presented at the HP Software VIVIT User Forum, Montabaur, Germany, Nov. 13, 2007.

A. Birk, “Success with variants: How to establish product line engineering that lasts,” presented at the 2nd Conference on Model-Driven Development and Product Lines (MDD&PL 2007), Leipzig, Germany, Sep. 24, 2007.

A. Birk and T. Nebe, “IT Management Software Lifecycle Portfolio Überblick und Einordnung,” presented at the HP Software VIVIT User Forum, Stuttgart, Germany, Jun. 12, 2007.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Challenges for requirements engineering and management in software product line development,” presented at the 13th Intl. Working Conference, REFSQ, Trondheim, Norway, Jun. 11, 2007. [Online]. Available: http://www.refsq.org/2007/

A. Birk, “Erfahrungen mit Anwendungsfallspezifikation bei der Entwicklung großer IT-Systeme,” presented at the Treffen der GI-Fachgruppe “Requirements Engineering,” Munich, Nov. 23, 2006.

A. Birk, “Anforderungsspezifikation in großen IT-Projekten,” presented at the Treffen der GI-Fachgruppe “Requirements Engineering,” Kaiserslautern, Germany, Nov. 25, 2004.

A. Birk et al., “Report of the GI Work Group ‘Requirements Engineering for Product Lines,’” presented at the GI Work Group Annual Report, Erlangen, Germany, Nov. 27, 2003.

A. Birk and D. Pfahl, “A systems perspective on software process improvement,” presented at the 4th International Conference, PROFES, Rovaniemi, Finland, Dec. 09, 2002. [Online]. Available: http://www.profes-conferences.org/history.php

A. Birk, “Practical knowledge management for software projects,” presented at the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES), Rovaniemi, Finland, Dec. 09, 2002. [Online]. Available: http://www.profes-conferences.org/history.php

A. Birk, “Three case studies on initiating product lines: Enablers and Obstacles,” presented at the OOPSLA PLEES’02 International Workshop on Product Line Engineering: The Early Steps: Planning, Modeling, and Managing, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Nov. 05, 2002.

A. Birk, “Identifying and managing information flows in software projects,” presented at the Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology 2002 (Conquest 2002), Nuremberg, Germany, Sep. 20, 2002.

D. Pfahl and A. Birk, “Using simulation to visualise and analyse product-process dependencies in software development projects,” presented at the 2nd International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, Oulu, Finland, Jun. 20, 2000. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-990.html

A. Birk, D. Hamann, and S. Hartkopf, “A framework for the continuous monitoring and evaluation of improvement programmes,” presented at the Second International Conference, PROFES, Oulu, Finland, Jun. 20, 2000. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-2188.html

A. Birk, “Base practices of systematic improvement in software engineering,” May 2000. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-1206.html

A. Birk, C. Differding, C. Hebestreit, R. Laqua, and M. Schlich, “InfraTrain: Prozesse und Vorlagen zur systematischen Erstellung von Trainingseinheiten,” 2000. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-4303.html

H. Biedermann, A. Birk, G. Chrobok-Diening, B. Nothhelfer-Kolb, M. A. Ochs, and D. Pfahl, “Maßgeschneiderte Verbesserungsprogramme im Software-Engineering am Beispiel der Komponentenauswahl bei Siemens Health Services PACS,” 2000. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-1462.html

A. Birk and F. Kröschel, “A knowledge management lifecycle for experience packages on software engineering technologies,” presented at the 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE ’99), Kaiserslautern, Germany, Jun. 16, 1999.

A. Birk, D. Surmann, and K.-D. Althoff, “Applications of knowledge acquisition in experimental software engineering,” Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, May 1999. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48775-1_5

K. El Emam and A. Birk, “Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 measure of software requirements analysis process capability,” Feb. 1999. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-58623.html

A. Birk et al., “The role of GQM in the PROFES improvement methodology,” 1999. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-55991.html

K.-D. Althoff et al., “Managing software engineering experience for comprehensive reuse,” 1999. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-52419.html

D. Hamann, J. Järvinen, A. Birk, and D. Pfahl, “A product-process dependency definition method,” presented at the 24th EUROMICRO Conference, Nov. 1998. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-55042.html

A. Birk and C. Tautz, “Knowledge management of software engineering lessons learned,” presented at the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE ’98), San Francisco, Nov. 1998. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-51617.html

A. Birk et al., “Applications of measurement in product-focused process improvement. A comparative industrial case study,” presented at the 5th International Software Metrics Symposium (International Software Metrics Symposium), Los Alamitos, Calif., Apr. 1998.

A. Birk, R. van Solingen, and J. Järvinen, “Business impact, benefit, and cost of applying GQM in industry. An in-depht, long-term investigation at Schlumberger RPS,” 1998.

A. Birk, J. Järvinen, S. Komi-Sirviö, P. Kuvaja, M. Oivo, and D. Pfahl, “PROFES: A product driven process improvement methodology,” presented at the The European Conference on Software Process Improvement 1998, Monte Carlo, 1998.

A. Birk, D. Hamann, and D. Pfahl, “Goal-driven planning of maintenance processes,” 1998. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-48773.html

A. Birk, “Modelling the application domains of software engineering technologies,” presented at the 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering, International Conference Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Incline Village/Nev., Dec. 1997. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-53194.html