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Prof. Dr. Tobias Schimmer

Prof. Dr. Tobias Schimmer

Honorarprofessor & Chief Development Expert bei SAP SE
Promotion: 2008, Dissertation: „Improving Traceability in Distributed Collaborative Software Development – A Design Science Approach“
Sprechstunde:
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Forschungs­schwerpunkte
  • Business Model Innovation
  • Large-Scale Lean and Agile Software Product Development
  • Software Innovation Projects and Lean Start-up Approach
  • Software Requirements Engineering and Design Thinking
  • Requirements Management, esp. Traceability and Rationale Management
  • Social Networks in Distributed Software Development
  • Distributed Collaborative Software Development (Methods and Tools)
  • Empirical Software Engineering (Method and Tool Evaluation)
Projekte
  • Lean Research project (together with SAP development and SAP Research)
  • Software-Cluster „Softwareinnovationen für das digitale Unternehmen“ (SWINNG)
  • GlobaliSE (Development of flexible business software by using global resources)
  • CollaBaWü (Collaborative, Component-Based Business Application Software Development within the Financial Service Provider Domain in „Baden-Wuerttemberg“)
  • V-TRaM – Visual Traceability and Rationale Management

Kurzprofil

Since 9/2019 Honorary Professor at University of Mannheim
Since 8/2018 Co-Founder SAP Innovation Center Newport Beach
Since 1/2009 SAP SE Walldorf (global development organization)
4/2008 – 1/2009 University of Mannheim – Assistant Professor
6/2004 – 3/2008 University of Mannheim (incl. 4 months at University of California, Irvine)
Degree: PhD in Business Information Systems Engineering („Dr. rer. pol“)
9/1999 – 6/2004 University of Mannheim
Degree: Diploma in Business Administration and Computer Science („Diplom-Wirtschafts­informatiker“)
Majors: Business Software Engineering, Business Information Systems, Computer Science, Marketing
Internships Hildenbrand GmbH (not related, 5 months)
alltours flugreisen gmbh (3 months)
Student Research Assistant in Information Systems (4 years)
1989 – 1998 Hebelgymnasium Schwetzingen
Degree: German Comprehensive Secondary School Diploma (Abitur)
Majors: Mathematics and English

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Publikationen

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Talks und Präsentationen

  • 2013

  • 2012

  • 2011

  • 2009

  • 2008

    • Guest Lecture, at the itemis AG, 11/24/2008, Bonn:
      "Verbesserung der Traceability in der verteilten, kollaborativen Software­entwicklung“
    • TaSK Forum, 06/05/2008 at the University of Mannheim, Germany:
      „Verbesserung der Nachvollziehbarkeit und Prozess­transparenz in verteilten, kollaborativen Software­entwicklungs­projekten“
    • Guest Lecture, 05/28/2008 at the University of Mannheim, Germany:
      „Daten- und Wissens­management in der Software­entwicklung”
    • Conference Talk at the Second Workshop on Engineering Complex Distributed Systems (ECDS 2008) in conjunction with International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2008), 03/05/2008 in Barcelona, Spain:
      „Approaches to Collaborative Software Development“.
    • Conference Talk at the Second Workshop on Engineering Complex Distributed Systems (ECDS 2008) in conjunction with International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2008), 03/05/2008 in Barcelona, Spain:
      „Agile Methodologies for Distributed Collaborative Development of Enterprise Applications“.
    • Conference Talk at the PRIMIUM Subconference at the Multikonferenz Wirtschafts­informatik 2008 (MKWI'08), 02/26/2008 in Munich, Germany:
      „Designing and Implementing a Tool for Distributed Collaborative Traceability and Rationale Management“.
    • Workshop Talk 02/15/2008 in Würzburg, Germany:
      „Improving Traceability in Distributed Collaborative Software Development: Results from a Design Science Research Approach“.
  • 2007

    • CollaBaWü-Quarterly Workshop, 04/27/2007, University of Mannheim,
      „Visualization and Analysis of Traceability Relations­hips in Distributed Software Development“.
    • Conference Talk at the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, 04/03/2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA:
      „Genetic Algorithms for Finding Optimal Strategies for a Student's Game“.
    • Conference Talk at the REConf 2007 – 6. Requirements Engineering Tagung, 03/07/2007, München:
      „CodeBeamer for Requirements Engineering in Distributed Scenarios -- Global verteilte Software­entwicklung im Projekt 'Borderless Brain'"; with Michael Geisser.
    • Lecture at the University of Mannheim, Germany, 02/26/2007:
      „Tools for Collaborative Software Development“ together with Michael Geisser
    • Workshop Talk 01/16/2007 in Bad Hersfeld, Germany:
      „Evaluation von Requirements Engineering und Traceability Management Methoden in der verteilten Software­entwicklung“ with Michael Geisser
    • Conference Talk at the first International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD) in Zurich, Switzerland, 6 February 2007:
      „Towards Visualization and Analysis of Traceability Relations­hips in Distributed and Offshore Software Development Projects“.
    • Conference Talk at the first International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD) in Zurich, Switzerland, 5 February 2007:
      „Offshore Software Development: Transferring Research Findings into the Classroom“ with Kay Berkling (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico) and Michael Geisser.
    • CollaBaWü-Quarterly Workshop, 01/19/2007, FZI in Karlsruhe:
      „Social Network Analysis in Software Engineering“.
  • 2006

    • Guest Lecture at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, 12/15/2006, Mainz:
      „Wiki-Systeme als Medium zur Zusammenarbeit und Kommunikation in der Software­entwicklung“; together with Michael Geisser.
    • PRIMIUM Workshop, 11/15/2006, Stuttgart:
      „Innovative Einsatz­möglichkeiten von Wikis in Softwareprozessen“; with Michael Geisser and Stefan Seedorf.
    • Seminar Talk 10/26/2006, Irvine, USA:
      „Social Network Analysis Data Collection Techniques in Open Source Software Development Projects“.
    • Seminar Talk 10/19/2006, Irvine, USA:
      „Social Network Analysis in Open Source Software Development Projects“.
    • Continuous Coordination Project Meeting 08/10/2006, Irvine, USA:
      „Improving Traceability in Distributed Software Development Projects“.
    • Workshop „Social Software in der Wertschöpfung“, 07/18/2006, Stuttgart:
      „Einsatzpotentiale von Wikis in der Software­entwicklung“; with Michael Geisser and Stefan Seedorf.
    • Expertenforum „Herausforderungen und erfolgversprechende Lösungs­ansätze bei verteilten Software­projekten“, 06/19/2006 – 06/28/2006, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, München, Stuttgart:
      „Wiki als Medium zur Zusammenarbeit und Kommunikation in Projekten“; with Michael Geisser.
    • Doctoral Colloquium 05/26/2006 in Mannheim, Germany:
      „Kollaborative Softwareerstellung im Forschungs­projekt 'CollaBaWü'" with Jens Arndt and Michael Geisser.
    • Seminar Talk 04/05/2006 in Mannheim, Germany:
      „Nutzung von Open Source-Entwicklungs­plattformen im Unternehmens­kontext“.
    • Workshop „Semantische Technologien zur Unterstützung von Softwareprozessen“ held 04/03/2006 at the Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern, Germany:
      „Kollaboratives Requirements Engineering“ with Michael Geisser.
    • Workshop Talk 03/24/2006 in Rossdorf, Germany:
      „Ansätze zur Integration von Open Source-Entwicklungs­methoden und -werkzeugen im Unternehmens­kontext“.
    • Conference Talk REConf 2006 – 5. Requirements Engineering Tagung, 03/07/2006, München:
      „Collaborative Software Requirements Engineering with Wiki and CodeBeamer“; with Michael Geisser.
  • 2004

    • bwcon Business Software Forum 09/23/2004 in Stuttgart, Germany:
      „Ansätze der Forschung zur Unterstützung der Entwicklung von Softwarekomponenten“.
  • 2003

    • Conference Talk, at the IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence, 10/13/2003 in Halifax, Canada:
      „Creating a Java- and CORBA-Based Enterprise Knowledge Grid Using Topic Maps“.

Lehre

  • Design Thinking and Lean Development in Enterprise Software Development
    Master-Ebene, Vorlesung
    Herbst-/Wintersemester 2012–2018
  • Agility and Reuse in Large-Scale Enterprise Software Development
    Master-Ebene, Vorlesung
    Herbst-/Wintersemester 2011
  • Globally Distributed Software Development (GDSD)
    Master-Ebene, Vorlesung
    Herbst-/Wintersemester 2008–2010

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