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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Find root causes with the Enhanced Cause-Effect approach - MES029
February 16, 2016 07:15 - 15.9 MBIn 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 come 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 fo...
Find root causes with the Enhanced Cause-Effect approach – MES029
February 16, 2016 07:15 - 15.9 MBIn 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 come 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 fo...
Boost your Logging – MES028
February 02, 2016 07:15 - 18.1 MBEmbedded 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 ...
Boost your Logging - MES028
February 02, 2016 07:15 - 18.1 MBEmbedded 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 ...
Engineers' Talk: Riding Jenkins with Oleg Nenashev - MES027
January 12, 2016 07:15 - 35.6 MBToday I'm happy to introduce you 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 Syste...
Engineers’ Talk: Riding Jenkins with Oleg Nenashev – MES027
January 12, 2016 07:15 - 35.6 MBToday I'm happy to introduce you 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 Syste...
Wanted! Podcast Name - MES026
January 05, 2016 08:15 - 14 MBHi 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...
Wanted! Podcast Name – MES026
January 05, 2016 08:15 - 14 MBHi 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...
Engineers' Talk: HW- and SW-Integrator Jürgen Salm - MES025
December 22, 2015 07:15 - 30.1 MBIt'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 manufacturer...
Engineers’ Talk: HW- and SW-Integrator Jürgen Salm – MES025
December 22, 2015 07:15 - 30.1 MBIt'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 manufacturer...
Muda, Mura and Muri - Waste in SW-development - MES024
December 15, 2015 07:15 - 11.2 MBI 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. You remember episode 4? Already there I have mentioned waste due to over-processing and over-engineering. Bo...
Muda, Mura and Muri – Waste in SW-development – MES024
December 15, 2015 07:15 - 11.2 MBI 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. You remember episode 4? Already there I have mentioned waste due to over-processing and over-engineering. Bo...
Engineers' Talk - DevOp and Tester Vassilis Rizopoulos - MES023
December 08, 2015 07:15 - 17.2 MBI have mentioned the Embedded Testing conference in Munich in episode 20. One of the presentation was about "Applying DevOps Principles to Software-Hardware Integration Test". Vassilis Rizopoulus, naming himself as DevOp and Tester, explained further details, 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 b...
Engineers’ Talk – DevOp and Tester Vassilis Rizopoulos – MES023
December 08, 2015 07:15 - 17.2 MBI have mentioned the Embedded Testing conference in Munich in episode 20. One of the presentation was about "Applying DevOps Principles to Software-Hardware Integration Test". Vassilis Rizopoulus, naming himself as DevOp and Tester, explained further details, 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 b...
15 amazing tips for your first BarCamp visit - MES022
December 01, 2015 06:15 - 16 MBIn 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 for your BarCamp visit. 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. Starti...
15 amazing tips for your first BarCamp visit – MES022
December 01, 2015 06:15 - 16 MBIn 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 for your BarCamp visit. 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. Starti...
How everything started – My way to the PDP-11 – MES021
November 24, 2015 06:15 - 17.6 MBHoly 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 nostalgic for others. They have never seen or touched them. Never experienced in real life. 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. Second, I got a mail by another colleague. ...
How everything started - My way to the PDP-11 - MES021
November 24, 2015 06:15 - 17.6 MBHoly 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 nostalgic for others. They have never seen or touched them. Never experienced in real life. 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. Second, I got a mail by another colleague. ...
Was your last conference poor? – MES020
November 17, 2015 06:15 - 18.4 MBYou 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 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, marketi...
Was your last conference poor? - MES020
November 17, 2015 06:15 - 18.4 MBYou 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 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, marketi...
Engineers' Talk: Mr. Bug-Hunting Bero Brekalo - MES019
November 10, 2015 06:15 - 27.6 MBTalking about bug-hunting has become a regular topic in this podcast. However there are tons of different persons out there using their own approach to handle bugs. All of them might have different attitudes, different approaches and different experiences. And it might be of interest to get more familiar with them and the details they can tell us. Within today's episode we have Bero Brekalo as a guest for interview. Bero is one of my very first listeners not directly related to me. We got ac...
Engineers’ Talk: Mr. Bug-Hunting Bero Brekalo – MES019
November 10, 2015 06:15 - 27.6 MBTalking about bug-hunting has become a regular topic in this podcast. However there are tons of different persons out there using their own approach to handle bugs. All of them might have different attitudes, different approaches and different experiences. And it might be of interest to get more familiar with them and the details they can tell us. Within today's episode we have Bero Brekalo as a guest for interview. Bero is one of my very first listeners not directly related to me. We got ac...
How to survive the email flood? – MES018
November 03, 2015 06:15 - 14.8 MBEverybody 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 of us have to declare: it's too much. I have had a time in my life in which I have had to handle 750 mails per day in average. Nobody can say that this is possible to do. But that was the time I started a very strict and consequent filtering and categorization. However it still was too much. The combination of importance and urgency was back-br...
How to survive the email flood? - MES018
November 03, 2015 06:15 - 14.8 MBEverybody 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 of us have to declare: it's too much. I have had a time in my life in which I have had to handle 750 mails per day in average. Nobody can say that this is possible to do. But that was the time I started a very strict and consequent filtering and categorization. However it still was too much. The combination of importance and urgency was back-br...
Engineer’s Talk: Soft-Errors with Michal Lewczyk – MES017
October 27, 2015 06:15 - 31 MBDo 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. I first time get into contact with Soft-Errors in late 2011 as we have observed a spontaneous reset within a customer's appliance. There was no indication for a reset-request, the system simply resetted. Within some industries this is no case to be worried about. But in that time, in that type of industry, with this particular customer it was ...
Engineer's Talk: Soft-Errors with Michal Lewczyk - MES017
October 27, 2015 06:15 - 31 MBDo 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. I first time get into contact with Soft-Errors in late 2011 as we have observed a spontaneous reset within a customer's appliance. There was no indication for a reset-request, the system simply resetted. Within some industries this is no case to be worried about. But in that time, in that type of industry, with this particular customer it was ...
Aftermath in a task-force - MES016
October 20, 2015 05:15 - 17.8 MBIn 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 lot of details about how to provide meaningful and reliable meeting minutes. I provide you my experiences in doing minutes both, during and after the task-force meetings. Additionally you will also get my minutes template available for free at Google Docs. And last not least I will drop you my ideas about the retrospective you should have for ea...
Aftermath in a task-force – MES016
October 20, 2015 05:15 - 17.8 MBIn 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 lot of details about how to provide meaningful and reliable meeting minutes. I provide you my experiences in doing minutes both, during and after the task-force meetings. Additionally you will also get my minutes template available for free at Google Docs. And last not least I will drop you my ideas about the retrospective you should have for ea...
Task-Forcing extreme: Volkswagen and its Diesel problem – MES015
October 13, 2015 05:15 - 21 MBIn this episode I will give you my thoughts and considerations about the Volkswagen Diesel scandal. I wanted to highlight some of the obvious technical problems as some of the not that visible intrinsic issues. Where do we have seen this kind of cheating before? What could the customer expect? How will Volkswagen deal with the situation? A big amount of questions let me consider about some potential answers or thoughts how this could have happened, why it has happened and whether it is not th...
Task-Forcing extreme: Volkswagen and its Diesel problem - MES015
October 13, 2015 05:15 - 21 MBIn this episode I will give you my thoughts and considerations about the Volkswagen Diesel scandal. I wanted to highlight some of the obvious technical problems as some of the not that visible intrinsic issues. Where do we have seen this kind of cheating before? What could the customer expect? How will Volkswagen deal with the situation? A big amount of questions let me consider about some potential answers or thoughts how this could have happened, why it has happened and whether it is not th...
Finding root-causes with Ishikawa - MES014
October 06, 2015 05:15 - 20.3 MBThis episode is the 2nd part of the root-cause mini-series. It has started with episode #9 and the 5-Whys technique. This time we get introduced into the Ishikawa-technique. It is a much more versatile approach which handles even more complicated problems with more than one root-cause. In detail the Ishikawa-technique is a simple as the 5-Whys. However it also has some problems and obstacles which you should know to use it on its best. This episode provides you an introduction in this graphic...
Finding root-causes with Ishikawa – MES014
October 06, 2015 05:15 - 20.3 MBThis episode is the 2nd part of the root-cause mini-series. It has started with episode #9 and the 5-Whys technique. This time we get introduced into the Ishikawa-technique. It is a much more versatile approach which handles even more complicated problems with more than one root-cause. In detail the Ishikawa-technique is a simple as the 5-Whys. However it also has some problems and obstacles which you should know to use it on its best. This episode provides you an introduction in this graphic...
Engineers' talk: Tools and Building with Robert Schiele - MES013
September 29, 2015 05:15 - 27.3 MBIn this episode you will learn a lot about building, maintaining and distributing tools and operating systems in large scale projects. With Robert Schiele a senior expert on all this kind of topics stays with me. We're talking about build-systems, root file systems, native and cross building. We tackle observable problems with distributed environments. We discuss about struggles with multiple hardware platforms. And we give you a close look into the way how well prepared tools-provisioning sa...
Engineers’ talk: Tools and Building with Robert Schiele – MES013
September 29, 2015 05:15 - 27.3 MBIn this episode you will learn a lot about building, maintaining and distributing tools and operating systems in large scale projects. With Robert Schiele a senior expert on all this kind of topics stays with me. We're talking about build-systems, root file systems, native and cross building. We tackle observable problems with distributed environments. We discuss about struggles with multiple hardware platforms. And we give you a close look into the way how well prepared tools-provisioning sa...
6 ways to struggle with your explanations - MES011
September 15, 2015 05:15 - 17 MBComplicated technical problems, defects, situations or environments often need some abstraction to be understood by outsiders. This episode give you 6 ways to fail with your explanation. But it also gives you six great ways how to become a 1st class insider providing exceptional explanations.
6 ways to struggle with your explanations – MES011
September 15, 2015 05:15 - 17 MBComplicated technical problems, defects, situations or environments often need some abstraction to be understood by outsiders. This episode give you 6 ways to fail with your explanation. But it also gives you six great ways how to become a 1st class insider providing exceptional explanations.
How this podcast is produced – MES010
September 08, 2015 05:15 - 16 MBThis is the vacation episode. Recorded on my way to the beach of Moliets-et-Maa. Moliets-et-Maa is a small village in south-west of France. It's situated close to the Atlantic sea. Roundabout 120 km south of Bordeaux and 50 kilometres north of Biarritz. It's a surfer's spot and offers a 9- and 18-hole golf course. We love it due to the great sea view, the wide beach and the lovely weather conditions. It's also my 10th episode and therefore time for a short celebration. Hoorray. Okay, that's...
How this podcast is produced - MES010
September 08, 2015 05:15 - 16 MBThis is the vacation episode. Recorded on my way to the beach of Moliets-et-Maa. Moliets-et-Maa is a small village in south-west of France. It's situated close to the Atlantic sea. Roundabout 120 km south of Bordeaux and 50 kilometres north of Biarritz. It's a surfer's spot and offers a 9- and 18-hole golf course. We love it due to the great sea view, the wide beach and the lovely weather conditions. It's also my 10th episode and therefore time for a short celebration. Hoorray. Okay, that's...
Finding root causes with 5-Whys - MES009
September 01, 2015 05:15 - 17.4 MBFinding the real cause of a problem is like weeding your garden. Treating only the weed is useless effort if the root is not eradicated. The 5-Whys technique provides you a way to dig deeper, find the root cause of a problem. Although the technique is quite simple in its process, it has its tweaks and caveats which needs to be known. This episode gives you a first entry how to do the 5-Whys best. It give you an overview of the benefits, but also mentions the drawbacks. A step-by-step guide in...
Finding root causes with 5-Whys – MES009
September 01, 2015 05:15 - 17.4 MBFinding the real cause of a problem is like weeding your garden. Treating only the weed is useless effort if the root is not eradicated. The 5-Whys technique provides you a way to dig deeper, find the root cause of a problem. Although the technique is quite simple in its process, it has its tweaks and caveats which needs to be known. This episode gives you a first entry how to do the 5-Whys best. It give you an overview of the benefits, but also mentions the drawbacks. A step-by-step guide in...
3 mandatory actions to successfully launch a task-force - MES008
August 25, 2015 05:15 - 15.4 MBEach task-force follows three different phases: launching, running and aftermath. This episode handles the first phase. Get 3 basic actions to succeed.
3 mandatory actions to successfully launch a task-force – MES008
August 25, 2015 05:15 - 15.4 MBEach task-force follows three different phases: launching, running and aftermath. This episode handles the first phase. Get 3 basic actions to succeed.
Engineers’ talk: Internet of Things with Marcus Behrens – MES007
August 18, 2015 05:15 - 21.9 MBMarcus Behrens is a wholehearted engineer and Product Design Director at SAP in Walldorf, Germany. We came into discussion at the IoT-TechDay in Frankfurt. He's not only one of the masterminds at SAP for IoT, but also an engaged engineer within Embedded Systems. This interesting combination triggered this talk. We're chatting about our experiences and impressions from the IoT-TechDay, the chances and risks we see in IoT and our future outlook for IoT in our daily environment.
Engineers' talk: Internet of Things with Marcus Behrens - MES007
August 18, 2015 05:15 - 21.9 MBMarcus Behrens is a wholehearted engineer and Product Design Director at SAP in Walldorf, Germany. We came into discussion at the IoT-TechDay in Frankfurt. He's not only one of the masterminds at SAP for IoT, but also an engaged engineer within Embedded Systems. This interesting combination triggered this talk. We're chatting about our experiences and impressions from the IoT-TechDay, the chances and risks we see in IoT and our future outlook for IoT in our daily environment.
5 tips that your task-force gets successful - MES006
August 11, 2015 05:20 - 18.3 MBThis episode is the starting episode of a mini-series about how to establish and run a successful task-force. This episode gives you the overview about the advantages and disadvantages, the risks and chances of running task-forces. Get 5 tips how your task-force becomes successful.
5 tips that your task-force gets successful – MES006
August 11, 2015 05:20 - 18.3 MBThis episode is the starting episode of a mini-series about how to establish and run a successful task-force. This episode gives you the overview about the advantages and disadvantages, the risks and chances of running task-forces. Get 5 tips how your task-force becomes successful.
Have you these symptoms of project problems? – MES005
August 04, 2015 05:30 - 24.3 MBRescuing a failing project seems to be something regular nowadays. Whether your project starts tilting is something you should detect beforehand. This episode gives you the major indications for a failing project. Take them seriously and hold your personal vigilant attitude to ensure that you do not miss the point for rescue or escape.
Have you these symptoms of project problems? - MES005
August 04, 2015 05:30 - 24.3 MBRescuing a failing project seems to be something regular nowadays. Whether your project starts tilting is something you should detect beforehand. This episode gives you the major indications for a failing project. Take them seriously and hold your personal vigilant attitude to ensure that you do not miss the point for rescue or escape.
Throw away your zero fault targets – MES004
July 27, 2015 20:53 - 13.4 MBIn this episode I will show you how zero-fault targets jeopardize the goal they try to achieve. I will show you some of their major problems. And I will give you some ways to escape or at least to handle them.
Throw away your zero fault targets - MES004
July 27, 2015 20:53 - 13.4 MBIn this episode I will show you how zero-fault targets jeopardize the goal they try to achieve. I will show you some of their major problems. And I will give you some ways to escape or at least to handle them.