Month: August 2019

Everyone is in a hurry these days and embedded system developers are no exception. Development teams are racing as quickly as possible towards a goal or a delivery that isn’t just a moving target but may not exist at all! Fire! Ready, aim goes the mantra but what about teams that have a known goal, … Continue reading 7 Tips for Getting to Market Faster

Through-out my travels, I encounter quite a few development teams that seem to live by the adage, “The best software is free software”. The moment they hear the words “Open Source” the heavens open, the choirs begin singing and all thought about doing due diligence on the open source code is gone. That’s the direction, … Continue reading 7 Reasons Open Source Software can be Evil

Quite a few companies and teams that I encounter have an expectations problem. They have unrealistic expectations for the time and effort that it takes to develop an embedded system. On the spectrum between pessimistic and optimistic, they typically blow past optimistic into the fantasy land zone. The result is often debilitating, stressful, late and … Continue reading 5 Tips for Setting Realistic Project Expectations

Project fatigue can have a crippling effect on the project development cycle. A project starts and the development team is energized and dive in with positive fervor, but before long, the project stalls and seems to be going nowhere fast. There are dozens of potential causes for project fatigue, but in my experience, there are … Continue reading The Top 5 Causes for Project Fatigue