Credit: SAP AG
In 2011 a joint doctoral research program was developed through a partnership between Professor Heinzl’s Chair of Business Administration and Business Informatics and SAP SE in Walldorf. Both partners assume the same amount of financing for up to two PhD positions. Since its launch, the research program and cooperation has been a continued success.
The PhD students work both in the practical environment of SAP and in the research community at the chair. The research agenda and project topics are defined in a joint steering committee together with SAP SE and the chairholder. The scientific results from the program aim to form a knowledge base that leads to new theoretical findings, methods, and software prototypes that are relevant for both researchers and practitioners (for dissertations and selected publications see below).
In the early years, projects and accompanying empirical research in the field of ‘Lean and Agile Development’ aimed to improve the sustainability of SAP’s implementation of Lean Management and Agile Engineering. The researchers attempted to obtain detailed data on lean and agile development practices, improve existing measurement instruments, identify innovation opportunities, and thus validate new development methods and make them more effective.
The current project “Data Driven Product Innovation” involves using data from cloud applications for the systematic validation of existing applications, deriving new possibilities for requirement engineering, and gaining insights for software innovations.
| Christoph Schmidt | 2011 – 2014 | Dissertation: “Agile Software Development Teams – The Impact of Agile Development on Team Performance” |
| Alexander Scheerer | 2011 – 2015 | Dissertation: “Coordination in Large-Scale Agile Software Development – Integrating Conditions and Configurations in Multiteam Systems” |
| Behnaz Gholami | 2011 – 2015 | Dissertation: “Self-Organizing, Social and Adaptive Nature of Agile Information Systems Development Teams : Essays on Leadership and Learning” |
| Saskia Bick | 2014- 2017 | Dissertation: “Dependency Management in Large-Scale Agile Software Development” |
| Jens Förderer | 2015 – 2018 | Dissertation: “Orchestrating Complementary Software Platform Ecosystems: Essays On Cooperative and Competitive Platform Innovation” |
| Philipp Hoffmann | 2017 – 2022 | Dissertation: " Data-driven requirements elicitation: an automated end-user feedback analytics approach and implications for enterprise software requirements engineering” |
- Förderer, J., Lüker, N. and Heinzl, A. (2021). And the winner is …? The desirable and undesirable effects of platform awards. Information Systems Research : ISR, 32, 1155-1172.
- Andor, M. A., Gerster, A., Peters, J. and Schmidt, C. M. (2020). Social norms and energy conservation beyond the US. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management : JEEM, 103, 1–16.
- Foerderer, J. (2020). Interfirm exchange and innovation in platform ecosystems: evidence from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Management Science, 66, 4772-4787.
- Förderer, J., Kude, T., Schütz, S. W. and Heinzl, A. (2019). Knowledge boundaries in enterprise software platform development: Antecedents and consequences for platform governance. Information Systems Journal : ISJ, 29, 119–144.
- Kude, T., Mithas, S., Schmidt, C. T. and Heinzl, A. (2019). How pair programming influences team performance: The role of backup behavior, shared mental models, and task novelty. Information Systems Research : ISR, 30, 1145-1163.
- Bick, S., Spohrer, K., Hoda, R., Scheerer, A. and Heinzl, A. (2018). Coordination challenges in large-scale software development: A case study of planning misalignment in hybrid settings. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 44, 932–950.
- Förderer, J., Kude, T., Mithas, S. and Heinzl, A. (2018). Does platform owner’s entry crowd out innovation? Evidence from Google photos. Information Systems Research : ISR, 29, 444–460.
- Förderer, J. and Schill, L. (2018). Design-Thinking-Programme erfolgreich umsetzen. Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management : WuM, 10, 66–73.
- Hoffmann, P., Shmagina, V., Halckenhäußer, A. and Lüker, N. (2023). The influence of user feedback on complementary innovation in platform ecosystems: NLP evidence on the value of multihoming. In , Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (S. 5994-6003). , University of Hawaii at Manoa: Honolulu, HI.
- Halckenhäußer, A., Mann, F., Förderer, J. and Hoffmann, P. (2022). Comparing platform core features with third-party complements. machine-learning evidence from Apple iOS.. In , Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 55) (S. 6679-6688). , HICSS: Honolulu, HI.
- Oberste, L., Finze, N., Hoffmann, P. and Heinzl, A. (2022). Supporting the billing process in outpatient medical care: Automated medical coding through machine learning. In , Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS): Timișoara, Romania, June 18–24, 2022 (S. 1–18). European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) : Research Papers, AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Röck, T., Hoffmann, P., Spohrer, K., Schimmer, T. and Heinzl, A. (2022). Assessing the impact of empirical process control metrics in agile software development – A framework based on improvement capability. In , Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS): Timișoara, Romania, June 18–24, 2022 (S. 1–15). Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) : Research Papers, AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Halckenhäußer, A., Förderer, J. and Heinzl, A. (2020). Wolf in a sheep’s clothing: When do complementors face competition with platform owners? In , ICIS 2020 : Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Information Systems (Virtual Conference), Hyderabad, India, December 13–16, 2020 (S. Paper 1515). , AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Hoffmann, P., Mateja, D., Spohrer, K. and Heinzl, A. (2020). Socio-behavioral elements in data-driven requirements engineering: The case of enterprise cloud software. In , 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2020) : an Online AIS Conference, June 15–17, 2020 (S. 1–16). European Conference on Information Systems : ECIS, AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Hoffmann, P., Mateja, D., Spohrer, K. and Heinzl, A. (2019). Bridging the vendor-user gap in enterprise cloud software development through data-driven requirements engineering. In , Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems – Information Systems at the Heart of Innovation Ecosystems : ICIS 2019, Munich, Germany, December 15–18, 2019 (S. Paper 11). , AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Förderer, J. (2018). Self-governance of online communities : evidence from a regression discontinuity design. In , Transforming society with digital innovation : 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017) : 10–13 December 2017, Seoul, South Korea (S. 4659-4677). , Curran ; AISeL: Red Hook, NJ ; Atlanta, GA.
- Förderer, J. and Heinzl, A. (2018). Do volunteer moderators encourage engagement in online communities? : Evidence from a regression discontinuity design. In , Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2018 : data driven X – turning data into value : Leuphana Unversität Lüneburg, 6.-9. März 2018 (S. 169–180). , Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik: Lüneburg.
- Förderer, J. and Heinzl, A. (2018). Product updates : attracting new consumers versus alienating existing ones. In , Transforming society with digital innovation : 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017) : 10–13 December 2017, Seoul, South Korea (S. 5083-5102). , Curran ; AISeL: Red Hook, NJ ; Atlanta, GA.
- Förderer, J. and Heinzl, A. (2018). Product updates : attracting new consumers versus alienating existing ones. In , Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2018 : data driven X – turning data into value : Leuphana Unversität Lüneburg, 6.-9. März 2018 (S. 423–434). , Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik: Lüneburg.
- Bick, S., Scheerer, A. and Spohrer, K. (2016). Inter-team coordination in large agile software development settings : five ways of practicing agile at scale. In , Proceedings of the Scientific Workshop Proceedings of XP2016 (S. Article 4, 1–5). , ACM Digital Library: New York, NY.
- Förderer, J. and Kude, T. (2016). Signals of novelty and their legitimacy. In , (S. 12122). Annual Meeting Proceedings / Academy of Management, Academy of Management: Chicago, IL.
- Förderer, J., Kude, T., Mithas, S. and Heinzl, A. (2016). Does platform owner's crowd out innovation? : Evidence from Google photos. In , 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016) : Dublin, Ireland, 11–14 December 2016 (S. 673–689). , Curran ; AISeL: Red Hook, NJ ; Atlanta, GA.
- Förderer, J., Kude, T., Mithas, S. and Heinzl, A. (2016). How deadline-orientation and product modularity influence software quality and job satisfaction. In , (S. 16179). Annual Meeting Proceedings / Academy of Management, Academy of Management: Chicago, IL.
- Förderer, J., Kude, T., Mithas, S. and Heinzl, A. (2016). How temporal work styles and product modularity influence software quality and job satisfaction. In , SIGMIS-CPR'16 : proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Computers and People Research : June 2–4, 2016, Alexandria, VA, USA (S. 105–112). , ACM Digital Library: Washington, DC.
- Spohrer, K., Kude, T., Schmidt, C. and Heinzl, A. (2016). The transactive processes of social coding : how code review substitutes for transactive memory in software development teams. In , 2016 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016) : Dublin, Ireland, December 11–14, 2016, Proceedings (S. Paper 13, 1–20). , AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Förderer, J., Kude, T., Schütz, S. W. and Heinzl, A. (2015). Control versus generativity : a complex adaptive systems perspective on service platforms. In , Building a better world through information systems : International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2014), Auckland, New Zealand, 14 – 17 December 2014 (S. 3908-3920). , Curran ; AISeL: Red Hook, NJ ; Atlanta, GA.
- Förderer, J., Kude, T., Schütz, S. W. and Heinzl, A. (2015). Too little; too late : effective developer support structures in digital platforms. In , (S. 18109). Annual Meeting Proceedings / Academy of Management, Academy of Management: Chicago, IL.
- Förderer, J., Schütz, S. W. and Kude, T. (2015). Add-on solution success : a configurational view on knowledge sharing in digital platforms. In , Building a better world through information systems : International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2014), Auckland, New Zealand, 14 – 17 December 2014 (S. 4429-4441). , Curran ; AISeL: Red Hook, NJ ; Atlanta, GA.
- Scheerer, A., Bick, S., Hildenbrand, T. and Heinzl, A. (2015). The effects of team backlog dependencies on agile multiteam systems : a graph theoretical approach. In , 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2015) : Kauai, Hawaii, USA, 5 – 8 January 2015 ; proceedings (S. 5124-5132). , IEEE: Piscataway, NJ.
- Bick, S., Scheerer, A., Spohrer, K., Kude, T. and Heinzl, A. (2014). Software development in multiteam systems : A longitude study on the effects of structural incongruencies on coordination effectiveness. In , eProceedings of the 9th International Research Workshop on Information Technology Project Management (IRWITPM) Auckland, New Zealand, December 13th, 2014 : proceedings (S. 49–56). , AISeL: Atlanta, Ga..
- Förderer, J., Kude, T. and Heinzl, A. (2014). Fit in cloud sourcing arrangements: An ontological perspective. In , Governing Sourcing Relationships. A Collection of Studies at the Country, Sector and Firm Level : 8th Global Sourcing Workshop 2014, Val d'Isere, France, March 23–26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (S. 64–77). Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing : LNBIP, Springer: Berlin [u.a.].
- Kude, T., Bick, S., Schmidt, C. and Heinzl, A. (2014). Adaption patterns in agile information systems development teams. In , ECIS 2014 proceedings : 22th European Conference on Information Systems ; Tel Aviv, Israel, June 9–11, 2014 (S. Track 13, Paper 11). , AISeL: Atlanta, Ga..
- Scheerer, A., Hildenbrand, T. and Kude, T. (2014). Coordination in large-scale agile software development: A multiteam systems perspective. In , Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2014 (S. 4780-4788). , IEEE Computer Soc.: Los Alamitos, Calif. [u.a.].
- Scheerer, A. and Kude, T. (2014). Exploring coordination in large-scale agile software development: A multiteam systems perspective. In , Building a better world through information systems : 35th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2014), Auckland, 14 – 17 December 2014 (S. Paper 17). , AISeL: Atlanta, Ga..
- Schmidt, C., Ganesha Venkatesha, S. and Heymann, J. (2014). Empirical insights into the perceived benefits of agile software engineering practices: A case study from SAP. In , ICSE Companion 2014 : Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (S. 84–92). , ACM: New York, NY.
- Schmidt, C., Kude, T., Heinzl, A. and Mithas, S. (2014). How agile practices influence the performance of software development teams: The role of shared mental models and backup. In , Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2014), Auckland, New Zealand (S. Paper 15). , AISeL: Atlanta, Ga..
- Förderer, J. (2018). Governance of complementary technology innovation : evidence from Apple's World Wide Developer Conference. Digital Innovations, Transformation, and Society Conference 2018 (DIGITS 2018), New Delhi, India.
- Förderer, J. (2017). Relational third-party governance : evidence from Apple's World Wide Developer Conference. Platform Strategy Research Symposium 2017, Boston, MA.
- Förderer, J., Kude, T., Mithas, S. and Heinzl, A. (2016). Does platform owner's entry crowd out innovation? Evidence from Google photos. Platform Strategy Research Symposium 2016, Boston, MA.
- Förderer, J., Kude, T., Schütz, S. W. and Heinzl, A. (2014). Why can't they build apps? Effective developer support structures in digital platforms. European Workshop on Software Ecosystems 2014, Walldorf, Germany.
- Hoffmann, P., Spohrer, K. and Heinzl, A. (2020). Analyzing usage data in enterprise cloud software: An action design research approach. In Information systems outsourcing : the era of digital transformation (S. 257–274). Cham: Springer.
