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Scientific and legal publications at the intersection of computer science, IT law and project practice.

Projective Expert Group and its Managing Director PD Dr. Frank Sarre have been regularly publishing scholarly and specialist legal treatises, standard reference works and practical guidance for over 35 years. With more than 50 published works, our publications bridge technical computer science, software engineering, cybersecurity and the legal frameworks governing complex IT ventures.

Key Publication Areas

1. IT Law, Contracting & Standard Reference Works

As a co-author of the premier German reference manual „Handbuch IT- und Datenschutzrecht“ (Verlag C.H. Beck, edited by Auer-Reinsdorff/Conrad), PD Dr. Frank Sarre regularly authors essential chapters for legal, judicial and corporate practice:

  • Implementation of standard software in complex environments (4th edition, 2025)
  • Development and maintenance of software, programming, documentation and testing (3rd ed. 2019 / 2nd ed. 2016)
  • Data, databases and data security (3rd ed. 2019 / Dr. Otto Schmidt 2014)
  • Technical glossary for lawyers, courts and IT practitioners (1st through 3rd editions)
  • Specification, migration and software acceptance (2nd ed. 2016)

2. Agile IT Projects, SCRUM & Justiciability

In the conference volumes of the German Foundation for Law and Computer Science (DSRI) and the leading journal Computer und Recht (CR), we analyze the critical interfaces between agile methodology and court-admissible documentation:

  • Algorithm meets law: Computer science and the EU Data Act (DSRI Autumn Academy 2025)
  • Planning in agile IT projects: Key success factor or merely „nice to have“? (DSRI 2023)
  • Use of corporate cloud services: Responsibilities for IT security (CR 2022)
  • Classical change management for agile IT projects? (DSRI 2021)
  • Justiciability: The quintessential requirement for agile IT projects (DSRI 2020)
  • Data quality: A manageable challenge from technical and legal standpoints? (DSRI 2018)
  • Critical interfaces between SCRUM and legal contract design (CR 2018)
  • The specification: „Must-have“ or „nice-to-have“ in complex IT projects? (DSRI 2017)
  • Client cooperation duties and dependencies (DSRI 2013)
  • The art of software procurement (DSRI 2010)
  • Cloud computing: New legal challenges (DSRI 2009)

3. IT Procurement & Healthcare

Practical guidance for procurement authorities, public bodies and healthcare providers:

  • Six-part guide to systematic IT procurement (Krankenhaus-IT Journal): Project structuring, functional specifications, contract drafting, supplier tendering, quality assurance, testing and acceptance.
  • SOA vs SOS in healthcare: Benefits, detailed architectures, authorization management and governance (Parts 1 & 2, 2009/2010).
  • A recipe for successful hospital IT (2004).

4. Computer Science Research & Doctoral Dissertation

Scholarly contributions in international proceedings (including DEXA, GLDV, ACM/IEEE SIGDOC) and Dr. Frank Sarre’s doctoral dissertation at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) on automated generation of hypertext structures, machine learning for information retrieval systems, and cooperative object-oriented database architectures.

Selected publications are available as PDF downloads in the sidebar.