Find root causes with the Enhanced Cause-Effect approach – MES029

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Enhanced Cause EffectFind root causes with the Enhanced Cause-Effect approach

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.

For a long time I was looking for a better way to provide root cause analysis. More sophisticated than the 5-Whys, but not that compilicated and elaborate as the Ishikawa. And hereby I came across with an enhanced version of the regular Cause-Effect approach.

It’s again a graphical approach which combines simplicity and logic. It’s especially useful for situations in which multiple goals are affected.

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Boost your Logging – MES028

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LoggingBoost your Logging

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 to improve logging.

It’s not for the super experts knowing everything and every detail of your system by heart. But it’s for all the regular engineers out there who are facing a failing system. A system providing either nothing or an awful lot of superfluous information.

What if you would introduce an indicator describing the system’s healthiness. Something what would highlight an immediate status of the system: healthy or unhealthy. Stable or unstable. Reliable or doomed.

The system-healthiness indicator needs much effort before you can use it. But it will be a walk in the park afterwards. No longer fears of uncommon errors. No longer daylong investigation to find the failing parts in your system.

Stay tuned and be inspired.

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Engineers’ Talk: Riding Jenkins with Oleg Nenashev – MES027

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Jenkins with Oleg NenashevEngineers’ Talk: Riding Jenkins with Oleg Nenashev

Today I’m happy to introduce another presenter of the Embedded Testing conference in Munich. I got acquainted with Oleg Nenashev already in the first minutes of the conference. We’re sitting aside of each other. He was working for his Jenkins presentation.

Oleg is a 27 year old engineer from St. Petersburg in Russia. Although he has started as a hardware-engineer he’s mainly engaged on the software side. With his presentation Integrating Jenkins with verification flows of Embedded Systems he has introduced himself as a continuous integration specialist. He’s currently working for CloudBees in Neufchâtel in Switzerland.

Oleg has become responsible for testing hardware in an automatized way already in 2008. He get in touch with it from the very beginning. Later he provided several plugins before he gots elected as core-developer. Meanwhile we have more than 1000 plugins. And it has undergone a redefinition from a pure Continuous-Integration tool towards a more general, more framework like automation server.

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Wanted! Podcast Name – MES026

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Sign PostWanted! Podcast Name

Hi fellows, I wanted to welcome you in 2016. Hopefully you have survived all the holiday stress, the good food, the sometimes stressful family gatherings. And perhaps you have also taken your New Year’s resolutions into mind and into heart.

I have done my homework – not fully, but most part of it.

25 episodes done; half of a year. Time for making a review. What has gone fine? What has gone wrong? Where is the direction? What was the feedback? Am I still on course?

These questions came into my mind during the last two weeks.

Today’s episode is about all that. And about the next steps of this podcast. About its future and the direction. About details and then big picture.

Stay with me and see what’s in for you.

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Engineers’ Talk: HW- and SW-Integrator Jürgen Salm – MES025

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Jürgen SalmIntegrate hardware and software with Jürgen Salm

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 software. That’s the time you need engineers like my today’s guest – Jürgen Salm.

Jürgen has a proven track of experience as SW-developer. He’s running his own zoo of Unix- and Linux-machines at his home-place. At work however he’s engaged as SW-tester and mainly HW- and SW-integrator. Jürgen is working for one of the big mobile equipment manufacturers in Germany.

Jürgen is a constant source of ideas about improvement and he has tons of experience you can participate from. As a former SW-developer Jürgen instantly provides the feedback the author of software will understand. More over he does regularly not only provide feedback about the failure, but also directly points to the failing component. Very often I have experienced by myself that he’s already pointing to the wrong algorithm directly.

We’re highlighting the daily problems when integrating immature hardware with even more immature software. The challenges when working together with multi-sited SW-development teams. And of course the mother of all questions: How to improve collaboration between developers and integrators.

Stay with me and enjoy the interview.

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