Mastering Embedded Systems
108 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOut of practice into practice. The podcast for engineers in the Embedded Systems realm.
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The man with the “Leadership Mind” – Bernd Geropp – MES054
June 20, 2017 06:15 - 20.8 MBThe man with the "Leadership Mind" - Bernd Geropp - MES054
The man with the "Leadership Mind" - Bernd Geropp - MES054
June 20, 2017 06:15 - 20.8 MBThe man with the "Leadership Mind" - Bernd Geropp - MES054
Day 2 of the Embedded World - MES053
April 18, 2017 06:15 - 13.4 MBDay 2 of the Embedded World - MES053
Day 2 of the Embedded World – MES053
April 18, 2017 06:15 - 13.4 MBDay 2 of the Embedded World - MES053
Day 1 of the Embedded World - MES052
April 04, 2017 13:17 - 11 MBDay 1 of the Embedded World - MES052
Day 1 of the Embedded World – MES052
April 04, 2017 13:17 - 11 MBDay 1 of the Embedded World - MES052
3 pickings from ESE-Kongress 2016 – MES050
December 06, 2016 07:15 - 20.2 MBThe ESE-Kongress in Sindelfingen. More than 1.300 participants! 100 presentations! 3 days with 4 streams in parallel! Amazing! The German Embedded Software Engineering Kongress is the second largest gathering of Embedded specialists in Europe. I gave my debut presentation with "No belly-flops with virtual teams". But there are about 100 other presentations in 4 parallel streams on three days. From 29th, November until 1st, December people belonging to the Embedded realm has their gathering i...
3 pickings from ESE-Kongress 2016 - MES050
December 06, 2016 07:15 - 20.2 MBThe ESE-Kongress in Sindelfingen. More than 1.300 participants! 100 presentations! 3 days with 4 streams in parallel! Amazing! The German Embedded Software Engineering Kongress is the second largest gathering of Embedded specialists in Europe. I gave my debut presentation with "No belly-flops with virtual teams". But there are about 100 other presentations in 4 parallel streams on three days. From 29th, November until 1st, December people belonging to the Embedded realm has their gathering i...
9 surprisingly simple tips to improve your communcation – MES049
November 22, 2016 07:15 - 26.2 MBYou were misunderstood. Although you have spent a lot of effort to be precise and clear. But nevertheless somehow your counterpart has horribly misunderstood you. And now you're in big trouble. Perhaps your spouse interpreted your "Nice" for the new dress as inadequate. Or there was this tone of desinterest in your voice. Or you just run into this ugly problem at work and your mind is still in the office. You all remember what happens after such situation. Something has gone wrong. How can w...
9 surprisingly simple tips to improve your communcation - MES049
November 22, 2016 07:15 - 26.2 MBYou were misunderstood. Although you have spent a lot of effort to be precise and clear. But nevertheless somehow your counterpart has horribly misunderstood you. And now you're in big trouble. Perhaps your spouse interpreted your "Nice" for the new dress as inadequate. Or there was this tone of desinterest in your voice. Or you just run into this ugly problem at work and your mind is still in the office. You all remember what happens after such situation. Something has gone wrong. How can w...
Say YES to your pain and step out of your Comfort Zone - MES048
November 08, 2016 07:15 - 12.8 MBIt'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 feelings, thoughts and emotions. Of course, we all have our regular habits, the routins. In the morning in the bathroom or in the evening going to bed. We also follow our inner boosters telling us to be perfect, punctual, or push ourselves and hurry up. But it's really sad, that we regularly get stuck in this zone. Our Comfort Zone is supposed to keep our l...
Say YES to your pain and step out of your Comfort Zone – MES048
November 08, 2016 07:15 - 12.8 MBIt'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 feelings, thoughts and emotions. Of course, we all have our regular habits, the routins. In the morning in the bathroom or in the evening going to bed. We also follow our inner boosters telling us to be perfect, punctual, or push ourselves and hurry up. But it's really sad, that we regularly get stuck in this zone. Our Comfort Zone is supposed to keep our l...
Avoid managing your time - MES047
October 25, 2016 06:15 - 14 MBThis 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 start today with the episode of Time-Management. Is it really possible to manage time? To do Time-Management? I do not think so. Because time is something we cannot impact or manipulate. The only thing we can do is to change our way to experience time passing by. And this change of perspective drops away all these usual Time-Management tools, b...
Avoid managing your time – MES047
October 25, 2016 06:15 - 14 MBThis 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 start today with the episode of Time-Management. Is it really possible to manage time? To do Time-Management? I do not think so. Because time is something we cannot impact or manipulate. The only thing we can do is to change our way to experience time passing by. And this change of perspective drops away all these usual Time-Management tools, b...
It’s a shame that you do not make the best out of your root cause analysis – MES046
October 11, 2016 06:15 - 20.2 MBDo 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 you regularly do after you have made your correction? By the way - do you know whether your correction really corrects the problem? That it only corrects the problem? And does not introduce a ton of new problems? In this episode it's all about what's coming after the problem's analysis.
It's a shame that you do not make the best out of your root cause analysis - MES046
October 11, 2016 06:15 - 20.2 MBDo 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 you regularly do after you have made your correction? By the way - do you know whether your correction really corrects the problem? That it only corrects the problem? And does not introduce a ton of new problems? In this episode it's all about what's coming after the problem's analysis.
Tech-Chat: How to maintain derailed projects with Maik Pfingsten - MES045
September 27, 2016 06:15 - 25.7 MBSometimes 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 stuff? And what's the benefit at the end?" I want to provide some answers on these question. I have invited a friend of mine, who has done this kind of work for roughly ten years. Maik Pfingsten is an elaborated engineer, a versatile project leader and he has saved a lot of projects under rough conditions. He meanwhile works as mentor, speaker, au...
Tech-Chat: How to maintain derailed projects with Maik Pfingsten – MES045
September 27, 2016 06:15 - 25.7 MBSometimes 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 stuff? And what's the benefit at the end?" I want to provide some answers on these question. I have invited a friend of mine, who has done this kind of work for roughly ten years. Maik Pfingsten is an elaborated engineer, a versatile project leader and he has saved a lot of projects under rough conditions. He meanwhile works as mentor, speaker, au...
5 hacks to succeed in discussions with your vendor – MES044
September 13, 2016 06:15 - 17.7 MBRight 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 road blocks and nit-picking details which brought the meetings close to waste of time. However it was a good opportunity to observe what could be done much more better when talking with vendors for technical problems. I have run a lot of such talks and I wanted to take this bad situation as trigger to collect my 5 hacks to get the most out of vendor dis...
5 hacks to succeed in discussions with your vendor - MES044
September 13, 2016 06:15 - 17.7 MBRight 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 road blocks and nit-picking details which brought the meetings close to waste of time. However it was a good opportunity to observe what could be done much more better when talking with vendors for technical problems. I have run a lot of such talks and I wanted to take this bad situation as trigger to collect my 5 hacks to get the most out of vendor dis...
Tech Chat: What QRAcorp can do for your requirements? – MES043
August 30, 2016 06:15 - 24.4 MBTech Chat: What QRAcorp can do for your requirements? - MES043
Tech Chat: What QRAcorp can do for your requirements? - MES043
August 30, 2016 06:15 - 24.4 MBTech Chat: What QRAcorp can do for your requirements? - MES043
Tech Chat: How tools can relief your pain in Requirements Engineering – MES042
August 17, 2016 09:23 - 36.1 MBIn episode #38 I have already had the pleasure to welcome Joachim Reinke. Joachim is an expert in requirements engineering. In episode 38 he explained the reasons why we definitely need requirements engineering. And today I'm happy that we managed to continue our talk. We're discussing the big pain points in Requirements Engineering. And how it is possible to relief this pain. But we also needed to back up a little bit to grab the bigger picture. First we identified the main points in Requi...
Tech Chat: How tools can relief your pain in Requirements Engineering - MES042
August 17, 2016 09:23 - 36.1 MBIn episode #38 I have already had the pleasure to welcome Joachim Reinke. Joachim is an expert in requirements engineering. In episode 38 he explained the reasons why we definitely need requirements engineering. And today I'm happy that we managed to continue our talk. We're discussing the big pain points in Requirements Engineering. And how it is possible to relief this pain. But we also needed to back up a little bit to grab the bigger picture. First we identified the main points in Requi...
How to Survive Death March Projects? (Part 3) - MES041
August 02, 2016 06:15 - 23.6 MBAnd 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 Death March projects. And about your decision whether to leave or stay. In episode #39 we have tackled the kind of actions you will face if you want to bring such a project to a good end. We have talked about politics and negotiations. About rational negotiations and negotiation games you should know. And how to identify accetable trade-offs or wha...
How to Survive Death March Projects? (Part 3) – MES041
August 02, 2016 06:15 - 23.6 MBAnd 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 Death March projects. And about your decision whether to leave or stay. In episode #39 we have tackled the kind of actions you will face if you want to bring such a project to a good end. We have talked about politics and negotiations. About rational negotiations and negotiation games you should know. And how to identify accetable trade-offs or wha...
How to Survive Death March Projects? (Part 2) – MES040
July 19, 2016 06:15 - 20 minutes - 10.9 MBIn 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 gather the right people in your project? Especially in Death March projects your surrounding team mates might become the only persons you see for a very long time. Insist on having the right persons in your team. Expect overtime hours, but remember always that you've a long way to go. And at the very end you should have enough power to s...
How to Survive Death March Projects? (Part 2) - MES040
July 19, 2016 06:15 - 20 minutes - 10.9 MBIn 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 gather the right people in your project? Especially in Death March projects your surrounding team mates might become the only persons you see for a very long time. Insist on having the right persons in your team. Expect overtime hours, but remember always that you've a long way to go. And at the very end you should have enough power to s...
How to Survive Death March Projects? (Part 1) - MES039
July 05, 2016 06:15 - 20.6 MBHopefully you guys remember Episode 37 Hopefully you guys remember episode 37. We talked about Death March projects. How to identify them. What their characteristics are. The reasons they happen. And about your decision to stay for them. Episode 37 was the introduction. This new episode starts to emphasize the four major aspects how to survive a Death March project. In this context surviving more means to stay psychologially unharmed than physically shattered. Regularly these four aspects ap...
How to Survive Death March Projects? (Part 1) – MES039
July 05, 2016 06:15 - 20.6 MBHopefully you guys remember Episode 37 Hopefully you guys remember episode 37. We talked about Death March projects. How to identify them. What their characteristics are. The reasons they happen. And about your decision to stay for them. Episode 37 was the introduction. This new episode starts to emphasize the four major aspects how to survive a Death March project. In this context surviving more means to stay psychologially unharmed than physically shattered. Regularly these four aspects ap...
Tech Chat: Why you need requirements with Joachim Reinke – MES038
June 21, 2016 06:15 - 26.3 MB"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? Then you're exactly right in this tech-chat with Joachim Reinke. Joachim is an elaborated specialist for such kind of hassle. He is an engineer who specialized in the area of Requirements Engineering. He's a crack in this area of the development and production process. We both got acquainted at the systems camp 2016 in Berlin. Requirements e...
Tech Chat: Why you need requirements with Joachim Reinke - MES038
June 21, 2016 06:15 - 26.3 MB"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? Then you're exactly right in this tech-chat with Joachim Reinke. Joachim is an elaborated specialist for such kind of hassle. He is an engineer who specialized in the area of Requirements Engineering. He's a crack in this area of the development and production process. We both got acquainted at the systems camp 2016 in Berlin. Requirements e...
What are Death March Projects? (Intro) – MES037
June 07, 2016 06:15 - 17.5 MBAlready 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 warning signs if your project runs into trouble. Everybody of us has some kind of understanding the term "Death March". It's from the military indicating a task you have a good chance to not stay alive. And the same could be, if you take projects in civil life in which the project members are working 13-14 hours each day, 6-7 days per week, for ...
What are Death March Projects? (Intro) - MES037
June 07, 2016 06:15 - 17.5 MBAlready 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 warning signs if your project runs into trouble. Everybody of us has some kind of understanding the term "Death March". It's from the military indicating a task you have a good chance to not stay alive. And the same could be, if you take projects in civil life in which the project members are working 13-14 hours each day, 6-7 days per week, for ...
Tech Chat: Security in Embedded Systems - MES036
May 24, 2016 06:15 - 20 MBYou know such kind of story - everybody is talking about security, but not really everybody knows what it effectively means. Especially security in Embedded Systems has become a valid topic in the last years. My today's guest has an intimate knowledge about all kind of aspects of security for Embedded Devices. I wanted to welcome Andrey Nikishin from Kaspersky Labs. Many of you will remember Kaspersky Labs as one of the main competitors in providing anti-virus software. However they have bec...
Tech Chat: Security in Embedded Systems – MES036
May 24, 2016 06:15 - 20 MBYou know such kind of story - everybody is talking about security, but not really everybody knows what it effectively means. Especially security in Embedded Systems has become a valid topic in the last years. My today's guest has an intimate knowledge about all kind of aspects of security for Embedded Devices. I wanted to welcome Andrey Nikishin from Kaspersky Labs. Many of you will remember Kaspersky Labs as one of the main competitors in providing anti-virus software. However they have bec...
5 simple tweaks to use Mind-Maps for meeting minutes - MES035
May 10, 2016 06:15 - 14.6 MBTaking 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 detected during running consecutive task-force meetings, that the Mind-Map approach is not that stringent. It needed some tweaks to get its real harmony and fluency. And this episode is about the five major tricks I have found during the last months when using Mind-Maps for taking meeting minutes.
5 simple tweaks to use Mind-Maps for meeting minutes – MES035
May 10, 2016 06:15 - 14.6 MBTaking 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 detected during running consecutive task-force meetings, that the Mind-Map approach is not that stringent. It needed some tweaks to get its real harmony and fluency. And this episode is about the five major tricks I have found during the last months when using Mind-Maps for taking meeting minutes.
Tech Chat: Virtualization in Embedded Systems – MES034
April 26, 2016 06:15 - 20.5 MBToday we're talking about Virtualization in Embedded Systems. This is particularly different from host-based virtualization. For that reason I wanted to welcome major experts in this special area: Baurzhan Ismagulov and Alexander Smirnov from Ilbers - Technology for better life. Ilbers provides Mango - a bare-metal Type 1 hypervisor. If you do not understand a word what this means - jump back to the previous episode #33 of the MES-podcast Combining the Uncombinable and fill up your missing k...
Tech Chat: Virtualization in Embedded Systems - MES034
April 26, 2016 06:15 - 20.5 MBToday we're talking about Virtualization in Embedded Systems. This is particularly different from host-based virtualization. For that reason I wanted to welcome major experts in this special area: Baurzhan Ismagulov and Alexander Smirnov from Ilbers - Technology for better life. Ilbers provides Mango - a bare-metal Type 1 hypervisor. If you do not understand a word what this means - jump back to the previous episode #33 of the MES-podcast Combining the Uncombinable and fill up your missing k...
Virtualization – Combining the Uncombinable – MES033
April 12, 2016 06:15 - 19.3 MBToday's episode is an introduction episode. It's introducing into the topic of the next episode. We've tackling the big topic of Virtualization. Virtualizing is in. Everybody, everythings seems to be in some way virtualized. But what does it really mean? At least in the context of IT it definitely means something different as in day-by-day usage. In this episode I'll give you the big overview and dive a little bit into some details. Details you should know when talking about virtualization o...
Virtualization - Combining the Uncombinable - MES033
April 12, 2016 06:15 - 19.3 MBToday's episode is an introduction episode. It's introducing into the topic of the next episode. We've tackling the big topic of Virtualization. Virtualizing is in. Everybody, everythings seems to be in some way virtualized. But what does it really mean? At least in the context of IT it definitely means something different as in day-by-day usage. In this episode I'll give you the big overview and dive a little bit into some details. Details you should know when talking about virtualization o...
Deadline Pressure - Seven artful ways to beat it - MES032
March 29, 2016 06:15 - 16.3 MBToday I wanted to talk about deadline pressure. Everybody of us might have some experience with these special working conditions. There's a deadline - and you have to achieve it.
Deadline Pressure – Seven artful ways to beat it – MES032
March 29, 2016 06:15 - 16.3 MBToday I wanted to talk about deadline pressure. Everybody of us might have some experience with these special working conditions. There's a deadline - and you have to achieve it.
Tech Chat: From SingleCore to MultiCore with Jeronimo Castrillon-Mazo - MES031
March 15, 2016 07:15 - 25.5 MBToday 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 have won the Embedded Award 2015 in the Tools-category for SLX MultiCore Toolsuite. That drives me to visit their booth. Having an amazing talk I asked Jeronimo to appear in this podcast. Let's have some tech-chat, widen the topic and enlarge the audience for this interesting topic. Jeronimo has studied Electrical Engineering in Colombia, achie...
Tech Chat: From SingleCore to MultiCore with Jeronimo Castrillon-Mazo – MES031
March 15, 2016 07:15 - 25.5 MBToday 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 have won the Embedded Award 2015 in the Tools-category for SLX MultiCore Toolsuite. That drives me to visit their booth. Having an amazing talk I asked Jeronimo to appear in this podcast. Let's have some tech-chat, widen the topic and enlarge the audience for this interesting topic. Jeronimo has studied Electrical Engineering in Colombia, achie...
The year starts with the Embedded World – MES030
March 01, 2016 07:15 - 28 minutes - 14.9 MBA 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 the Embedded World. I wanted to introduce you for a virtual walk. Join with me some interesting booths and see the big players
The year starts with the Embedded World - MES030
March 01, 2016 07:15 - 28 minutes - 14.9 MBA 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 the Embedded World. I wanted to introduce you for a virtual walk. Join with me some interesting booths and see the big players