Muda, Mura and MuriI have recorded this episode twice. Not by intention – far away from that. But I was neither convinced nor satisfied with the first recording. Also the subject was not really impressive and I decided to do it again from scratch. Thus I got a first hand impression what waste of time and effort is. However one detail in the first record was amazing. It was about waste in SW-development.
Engineers’ Talk: DevOp and Tester Vassilis RizopoulosYou remember episode 20 where I mentioned the Embedded Testing conference in Munich. One of the presentation was about Applying DevOps Principles to Software-Hardware Integration Test. Vassilis Rizopoulus explained details about DevOps, their tooling, automated testing and the mandatory environment.
I was excited and we have had an extraordinary talk after his contribution. Some days later I asked him for an interview. I am sure that Vassilis’ ideas and thoughts will be helpful for a lot of engineers out there. Especially engineers who wanted to try something knew, but who might need some trigger to change their way of thinking and habit.
Vassilis has been dabbling in software engineering close to two decades by now. In this time what started as a hobby of a would-be electrical engineer became full time occupation. He specializes in software productivity engineering, a catch all term for the role that integrates the development environment, test automation, continuous integration and deployment, devops and general behind the scenes tooling that enables software teams to concentrate on actually producing useful software.
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 15 tips that your first BarCamp visit becomes a success.
I have meanwhile joined several BarCamps. And I have made a lot of things wrong. Mainly because I was not aware of. Sometimes also I thought it is better done in another way. But there are a some main phases you are confronted with. And for all of them you can do things well and you do things much more better.
How everything started – My way to the PDP-11Holy moly, seems I’m getting old. Two times in the last two weeks I was confronted with this fact. Things which are part of my experience are nostalgic for others. They have never seen or touched them.
What has happened? One day I saw an update in LinkedIn highlighting DEC’s PDP-11 as an old system. That’s nothing extraordinary. It is old. But one of my colleagues mentioned it as nostalgic. Bumm, right in the face.
Was your last conference poor?You know conferences. For sure you do. You might be a fan of them. Or not. You might be disappointed. As I was after visiting the Embedded Testing 2015 in Munich last week. Although I was invented as presenter, I was not convinced. I mean the topic was really good – no other conference or meeting available covering exactly this specific part in the Embedded Systems realm.
But the conference got stuck as a sponsor-driven event which highlights products over general knowledge, marketing over sharing of experience. One could have made a lot more out of this conference. So the participants have finally had only their others to get acquainted with each other, hear the problems, discuss and finally detect the old rule, that the best of conferences are the pauses. Free time which can be used for connecting and sharing.
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I have more than 30 years experience as freelancer in Embedded Systems, 17 of them in telcommunication. The last 10 years I was mainly engaged as fault-analysis-specialist, troubleshooter and virtual team leader.
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