The Human Factor in Software Engineering

My name is Andrea Herrmann. My exciting and adventurous work life has led me through many jungles and over many seas. For 7 years, I was sweating as a consultant and project manager in software and consulting projects. The other 9 years, I have been working as a scientist and in University teaching. I am now a private lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. Next semester, I´ll teach Project Management again. I am still doing some private research. My main job (this means: the one that pays my living) is at a company where I am the Research and Innovation Manager. Yes, it IS exciting. I am creative one hour a day and the rest of the day is real work, like writing consortium agreements or project reports. I am writing a lot anyway. Currently, my book about communication is growing, and there are also some nice little novels around. And now the blog.

Dies ist also mein Blog zum Faktor Mensch in der Software-Entwicklung. Das ist ein ganz guter Obertitel für meine Lieblings-Themen wie (ir)rationale Entscheidungen, Requirements Engineering, leichtgewichtiges Projektmanagement, Zeitmanagement, Kreativität, Sicherheit und Qualität sowie emipirische Forschung. In diesem Blog sammle ich die besten Fundstücke aus meinen Literaturrecherchen sowie eigene Forschungsergebnisse und Gedanken.

This is now my blog about Human Factors in Software Engineering. This is a suitable sup-title for my favourite topics like (ir)rational decision-making, requirements engineering, light-weight project management, time management, creativity, security and quality as well as empirical research. In this blog, I gather the best nuggets from my literature research, own research results and thoughts.