Mastering Embedded Systems
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Mastering Embedded Systems
Out of practice into practice. The podcast for engineers in the Embedded Systems realm.
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54 episodes
The man with the "Leadership Mind" - Bernd Geropp - MES054
The man with the "Leadership Mind" - Bernd Geropp - MES054
3 pickings from ESE-Kongress 2016 - MES050
The ESE-Kongress in Sindelfingen. More than 1.300 participants! 100 presentations! 3 days with 4 streams in parallel! Amazing!
The Germ...
9 surprisingly simple tips to improve your communcation - MES049
You were misunderstood.
Although you have spent a lot of effort to be precise and clear. But nevertheless somehow your counterpart has...
Say YES to your pain and step out of your Comfort Zone - MES048
It's a pity.
That most of us find their best time in staying in their Comfort Zone. In this hammock of our regular habits. Full of cosy...
Avoid managing your time - MES047
This is the first episode of my mini-series "Improve Yourself". This series is based on the results of my last survey on my podcast listeners. We'll s...
It's a shame that you do not make the best out of your root cause analysis - MES046
Do you have ever thought about the aftermath for your root cause analysis? What should be done if you have found real cause of your problem? What do y...
Tech-Chat: How to maintain derailed projects with Maik Pfingsten - MES045
Sometimes people ask me: "What's that about project troubleshooting? What does it mean? What are you guys doing? Who does anybody need this kind of st...
5 hacks to succeed in discussions with your vendor - MES044
Right before my holiday I have made a bad experience. Some meetings with a vendor have gone sub-optimal to say the least.
There were several ro...
Tech Chat: What QRAcorp can do for your requirements? - MES043
Tech Chat: What QRAcorp can do for your requirements? - MES043
Tech Chat: How tools can relief your pain in Requirements Engineering - MES042
In episode #38 I have already had the pleasure to welcome Joachim Reinke. Joachim is an expert in requirements engineering. In episode 38 he explained...
How to Survive Death March Projects? (Part 3) - MES041
And here we are with the third and last part of how to survive Death March Projects. In episode #37 we have talked about how to define and detect Deat...
How to Survive Death March Projects? (Part 2) - MES040
In the last episode I have mentioned how important negotiations become in maintaining a Death March project. Today we're focussing on another aspect:...
How to Survive Death March Projects? (Part 1) - MES039
Hopefully you guys remember Episode 37 Hopefully you guys remember episode 37. We talked about Death March projects. How to identify them. What their...
Tech Chat: Why you need requirements with Joachim Reinke - MES038
"We do not need specificiation because our product is its own specification!" You know such kind of statements? You suffer from such kind of attitudes...
What are Death March Projects? (Intro) - MES037
Already at the very beginning of this podcast, in episode 5 I have talked about projects in problems. In this former episode I have talked about the w...
Tech Chat: Security in Embedded Systems - MES036
You know such kind of story - everybody is talking about security, but not really everybody knows what it effectively means. Especially security in Em...
5 simple tweaks to use Mind-Maps for meeting minutes - MES035
Taking minutes can be some real awkward story. But using Mind-Maps it gets more natural, more fluent, and more precise. But, doing it that way, I dete...
Tech Chat: Virtualization in Embedded Systems - MES034
Today we're talking about Virtualization in Embedded Systems. This is particularly different from host-based virtualization. For that reason I wanted...
Virtualization - Combining the Uncombinable - MES033
Today's episode is an introduction episode. It's introducing into the topic of the next episode. We've tackling the big topic of Virtualization.
...
Deadline Pressure - Seven artful ways to beat it - MES032
Today I wanted to talk about deadline pressure. Everybody of us might have some experience with these special working conditions. There's a deadline -...
Tech Chat: From SingleCore to MultiCore with Jeronimo Castrillon-Mazo - MES031
Today it's up to Jeronimo Castrillon-Mazo. We got acquainted at the Embedded World 2016 in Nuremberg. He is co-founder and adviser at Silexica. They h...
The year starts with the Embedded World - MES030
A short review about my visit to the Embedded World 2016 last week in Nuremberg. This episode is for all of you who haven’t had the chance to visit t...
Find root causes with the Enhanced Cause-Effect approach - MES029
In the first two sessions about root-cause-analysis I have introduced the 5-Whys and the Ishikawa techniques. Both have their pros and cons.
Boost your Logging - MES028
Embedded Systems without logging is a pain. But with logging it's very often a desaster, too.
I wanted to present you my thoughts how t...
Engineers' Talk: Riding Jenkins with Oleg Nenashev - MES027
Today I'm happy to introduce you another presenter of the Embedded Testing conference in Munich. I got acquainted with Oleg Nenashev already in the fi...
Wanted! Podcast Name - MES026
Hi fellows, I wanted to welcome you in 2016. Hopefully you have survived all the holiday stress, the good food, the sometimes stressful family gatheri...
Engineers' Talk: HW- and SW-Integrator Jürgen Salm - MES025
It's an ever lasting story in Embedded Systems: Integrate hardware and software. You need to combine a new piece of hardware together with new softwar...
Muda, Mura and Muri - Waste in SW-development - MES024
I have recorded this episode twice. Not by intention - far away from that. But I was neither convinced nor satisfied with the first recording. Also th...
Engineers' Talk - DevOp and Tester Vassilis Rizopoulos - MES023
I have mentioned the Embedded Testing conference in Munich in episode 20. One of the presentation was about "Applying DevOps Principles to Software-Ha...
15 amazing tips for your first BarCamp visit - MES022
In episode 20 I have described the main differences between traditional conferences and the idea of BarCamps. In this session I wanted to give you my...
How everything started - My way to the PDP-11 - MES021
Holy moly, seems I'm getting old. Two times in the last two weeks I was confronted with the PDP-11. Things which are part of my experience are nostalg...
Was your last conference poor? - MES020
You know conferences. For sure you do. You might be a fan of them. Or even not. You might be even disappointed, as I am after visiting the Embedded Te...
Engineers' Talk: Mr. Bug-Hunting Bero Brekalo - MES019
Talking about bug-hunting has become a regular topic in this podcast. However there are tons of different persons out there using their own approach t...
How to survive the email flood? - MES018
Everybody has his limit in handling emails. For one 10 per day are too much, another handles 150 without any problems. But sooner or later, everybody...
Engineer's Talk: Soft-Errors with Michal Lewczyk - MES017
Do you have ever heard about Soft-Errors? No, I do not mean Software-Errors. That's something completely different. I mean Soft in difference to Hard....
Aftermath in a task-force - MES016
In this episode I will give you further details and helpful hints how you can do all the aftermath in running and working with task-forces. You get a...
Task-Forcing extreme: Volkswagen and its Diesel problem - MES015
In this episode I will give you my thoughts and considerations about the Volkswagen Diesel scandal. I wanted to highlight some of the obvious technica...