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Agile methods:
Successfully filling agile roles
- Presentation: Filling agile roles successfully (ESE Kongress 2016, PDF)
- Conference proceedings script: Successfully filling agile roles (PDF)
Psychogram of agile methods
- Lecture manuscript: Psychogram of agile methods (PDF)
- Vortragsfolien auf Anfrage: agil@microconsult.de
Execute complex software projects more effectively using agile methods.
Article: How to execute complex software projects more effectively using agile methods
Scrum Embedded
Presentation: Scrum Embedded (PDF)
Fully agile or only half-agile? – Agile values & methods in traditional development
- Script: Agile values & methods (ESE Kongress 2014, PDF)
- Vortragsfolien auf Anfrage: agil@microconsult.de
How to properly implement agile methods
Presentation: Implementing agile methods correctly (ESE Management Summit 2014, PDF)
Agile development of embedded systems
Technical article: Agile development of embedded systems (PDF)
Actively support and manage change processes
Script: Change processes (ESE Kongress 2013, PDF)
Designing effective and goal-oriented workshops
- Presentation: Designing effective and goal-oriented workshops (ESE Kongress 2013, PDF)
- Script: Designing effective and goal-oriented workshops (PDF)
Motivation versus inner resistance: Why excessive performance orientation is pointless
Script: Driver versus inner critic (ESE Kongress 2013, PDF)
Change processes in projects
7 tips for process design
Presentation as PDF (MicroConsult Forum, embedded world 2011)
From the idea to the model
Presentation as PDF (ESE Kongress 2010)
Who needs requirements anyway?
The development process in practice: Tips for successful process design
What you should know about your brain – The developer's most important tool sits between their ears
The time coach: 7 steps to getting out of developmental stress
Project support: Why more and more companies are using an external coach
Strategies for success-oriented professional development
Product Management
- Article: How to recognize the best time to discontinue a product
- Presentation: Lifecycle of an embedded system (ESE Kongress 2017, PDF)
- Script: Lifecycle of an embedded system (PDF)
Requirements management
- Requirements management: I'd like to, I want, I need ...
- Requirements management: The decision-making process
Test, quality:
Trend Guide "Embedded Safety & Security"
Safety and security describe different properties of embedded software systems. However, a closer look reveals how closely the operational reliability of software-intensive embedded systems is linked to protection against unauthorized access or targeted attacks. The necessary measures pose significant challenges for both software and hardware developers.
Reading sample: Trend Guide Embedded Safety & Security
The three faces of software system security
- Article: Future-proofing, part 3 (PDF)
- Article: Access or attack security, part 2 (PDF)
- Article: Operational safety, part 1 (PDF)
- Article: Taming the dragon - embedded system security (PDF)
Expert statements and advice on quality & safety
Article: Advice on quality and safety (PDF)
Software Security: Risks and Solutions
Presentation: Software security (PDF)
Testing in the software lifecycle: Key activities and their relationship to the development process
Acript: Testing in the software lifecycle (ESE Kongress 2012, PDF)
Embedded testing: Terminology
Presentation: Embedded test terminology (embedded world 2012, PDF)
7 tips for unit testing with open source
Presentation as PDF (MicroConsult Forum, embedded world 2011)
Free unit testing tools for C development
Embedded SW test perspectives - efficient testing with a concept, strategy and method
Presentation as PDF (MicroConsult Forum, embedded world 2010)
What makes your code strong - software test methods
New approaches to test automation – the use of graphical programming languages in test automation
Trend Guide "Embedded Test"
New approaches to test automation: MC-ST – System test automation with UML and LabVIEW
New Ways of Test Automation: MC-ST - Framework for System Test Automation with UML and LabVIEW
Trend Guide "Embedded Quality"
Trend Guide Embedded Quality as PDF (2003)
The ABC of testing
System test
Software testing: Overview of testing procedures
System and hardware development:
Trend Guide IoT - Internet of Things (August 2016)
Leseprobe: Trend Guide IoT - Internet of Things
Systems engineering with SysML - Overview of key diagrams, notations and applications
- Presentation: Systems engineering with SysML (ESE Kongress 2013, PDF)
- Script: Systems engineering with SysML (PDF)
- Expertise: Systems engineering with SysML
UML and SysML in principle
Presentation as PDF (MicroConsult Forum embedded world 2010)
Embedded future: Trends and their impact on embedded solutions
Embedded future: Influencing factors, effects, consequences
Who needs requirements? - Requirements in the development of technical systems
Trend Guide "Embedded Automotive"
Trend Guide "Embedded Automotive" as PDF (2003)
Trend Guide "Embedded Future"
Trend Guide "Embedded Future" as PDF (2002)
(Embedded) Software development:
Software architecture requires responsibility and skill: What topics should a software architect master?
What's next for C++? - Changes to the C++ Standard
Windows in miniature - What's behind Windows 10 IoT?
- Presentation: What's behind Windows 10 IoT (ESE Kongress 2016, PDF)
- Script: What's behind Windows 10 IoT (PDF)
From C to embedded-C: The goal determines the path
Script: From C to embedded-C (PDF))
With our without operating system? - Comparison and selection of software runtime architectures
- Presentation: With our without operating system? (ESE Kongress 2015, PDF)
- Script: With our without operating system?
MyOS - Cookbook for a miniature operating system: C implementation of a custom kernel on Cortex-Mx
- Presentation: C implementation of a custom kernel on Cortex-Mx (ESE Kongress 2015, PDF)
- Script: C implementation of a custom kernel on Cortex-MX (PDF)
Object-based or object-oriented? - Modern low-level driver programming with C/C++
- Presentation: Modern low-level driver programming with C/C++ (ESE Kongress 2015, PDF)
- Script: Modern low-level driver programming with C/C++ (PDF)
Implementation of state machines in C++
Seminar docs: Implementation of state machines in C++ (ESE Kongress 2015, PDF)
Programming an operating system abstraction layer (OSAL)
Presentation: Programming an operating system abstraction layer (ESE Kongress 2014, PDF)
Embedded software architecture principles
Presentation: Embedded software architecture principles (ESE Kongress 2014, PDF)
The SOLID Principles: 5 principles for better software
Don't reinvent the wheel - Architectural patterns in the embedded environment
- Presentation: Architectural patterns in the embedded environment (ESE Kongress 2013, PDF)
- Script: Architectural patterns in the embedded environment (PDF)
Developing platform-independent apps - Features and limitations of HTML5 and JavaScript
- Presentation: Developing platform-independent apps (ESE Kongress 2013, PDF)
- Script: Developing platform-independent apps (PDF)
The Embedded software engineering cookbook
Presentation: Embedded software engineering cookbook (embedded world 2013, PDF)
Anti-aging for embedded software - Tipps for robust software
Presentation: Anti-aging for embedded software (embedded world 2013, PDF)
Software paradigms: What am I actually programming?
Software engineering with UML & C: Practical application for small embedded systems
- Presentation: Software engineering with UML & C (ESE Kongress 2012, PDF)
- Script: Software engineering with UML & C (PDF)
Healthy software
Presentation: Healthy software (embedded world 2012, PDF)
GoF design patterns in embedded systems?
7 Programming commandments
Presentation as PDF (MicroConsult Forum, embedded world 2011)
7 Tips for successful software design with RTOS
Presentation as PDF (MicroConsult Forum, embedded world 2011)
Why object-oriented development? - 6 individual reasons
Object-oriented programming with C
Object-oriented programming with C: Typical UML diagrams and their implementation
- Presentation as PDF (ESE Kongress 2009)
- Presentation as PDF (MicroConsult Forum, embedded world 2010)
Design and implementation of state machines
Presentation as PDF (ESE Kongress 2009)
Software development with brains: Tips for software developers to increase quality and performance
What makes your code strong - software test methods
Trend Guide "Embedded Software Redesign"
Reading sample: Trend Guide Embedded Software Redesign
From the idea to the model
Presentation as PDF (ESE Kongress 2010)
Motivation for object-oriented software development for embedded systems
Presentation as PDF // Application example (ZIP file)
Classes, objects and associations implemented in C - Implementation of object-orienged concepts
Presentation as PDF // Application example (ZIP file)
From Assembler to AspectJ - Introduction to aspect-oriented programming
UML step by step
Trend Guide "Embedded UML"
Trend Guide Embedded UML as PDF (2004)
UML - schon mal gehört? - Revolutionieren objektorientierte Methoden die Entwicklung der Embedded-Systeme?
Robot control as project example - Presentation of a UML case tool
XML: What is really behind it?
Design patterns
Who needs requirements? - Requirements in the development of technical systems
Trend Guide "Software Engineering"
Trend Guide Software Engineering as PDF (2001)
RTOS (real -tme operating system): Fundamentals of (real-time) operating systems
OSEK/VDX: Open systems and their interfaces for automotive electronics
The use of .NET in industrial environments
Who starts your .NET application? - Insights in the App-Domain class
Web services with .NET
Presentation as PDF // Article as PDF (2005)
Unix basics
Unix system programming
Embedded future: Trends and their impact on embedded solutions
Embedded future: Influencing factors, effects, consequences
Trend Guide "Embedded Automotive"
Trend Guide "Embedded Automotive" as PDF (2003)
Trend Guide "Embedded Future"
Trend Guide "Embedded Future" as PDF (2002)
Microcontrollers:
MyOS - Cookbook for a miniature operating system: C implementation of a custom kernel on Cortex-Mx
- Presentation: C implementation of a custom kernel on Cortex-Mx (ESE Kongress 2015, PDF)
- Script: C implementation of a custom kernel on Cortex-MX (PDF)
Arduino look and feel for multicore
Presentation: Arduino look and feel for multicore (PDF)
Quo vadis, multicore? Dead ends & future trends
- Presentation: Quo vadis, multicore? Dead ends & future trends (ESE Kongress 2015, PDF)
- Script: Quo vadis, multicore? Dead ends & future trends (PDF)
Multicore referendum - Spoilt by choice
- Presentation: Multicore referendum - Spoilt by choice (ESE Kongress 2015, PDF)
- Script: Multicore referendum - Spoilt by choice
SW design challenges for real-time multicore microcontroller systems
Article: SW design challenges for real-time multicore microcontroller systems (PDF, English)
Current trends in multicore microcontroller architectures
Article: Current trends in multicore microcontroller architectures (PDF)
Still Single? - Step by step to multicore
Presentation: Step by step to multicore (embedded world 2015, PDF)
Arm Cortex® overview: Which Arm architecture is most suitable?
Presentation: Arm Cortex® overview (emb. platforms conference 2014, PDF)
Multicore in embedded systems - how so?
- Presentation: Multicore in embedded systems (ESE Kongress 2013, ZIP)
- Script: Multicore in embedded systems (PDF)
Initialization and creation of low-level drivers
Script: Initialization and creation of low-level drivers (ESE Kongress 2012, PDF)
The role of the debugger in the testing process
Script: The role of the debugger in the testing process (ESE Kongress 2011, PDF)
Cortex-M4 provides DSP and floating-point functions.
CMSIS for Arm Cortex-Mx microcontrollers
Script as PDF (ESE Kongress 2010)
Cortex - in short
Presentation as PDF (MicroConsult Forum, embedded world 2010)
Soft skills:
Cognitive pitfalls in projects
Script: Cognitive pitfalls in projects (ESE Kongress 2016, PDF)
Systemisches Projektmanagement - Anwendung systemischer Regeln in der Projektarbeit
- Presentation: Systemic Project Management (ESE Kongress 2015, PDF)
- Conference proceedings script: Systemic project management (PDF)
Project effort estimation
- Presentation: Effort estimation for projects (ESE Kongress 2015, PDF)
- Conference proceedings script: Effort estimation for projects (PDF)
Trend Guide "Leadership in High-Tech Companies"
Reading sample: Trend Guide "Leadership in High-Tech Companies"
The challenge of project management
- Presentation: The challenge of project management (ESE Kongress 2014, PDF)
- Script: The challenge of project management (PDF)
Responsibility?? - How to create a responsible project team
Script as PDF (ESE Kongress 2011)
How women save software projects - Female solution strategies and male prejudics
Script as PDF (ESE Kongress 2010)
What you should know about your brain – The developer's most important tool sits between their ears
The time coach: 7 steps to getting out of developmental stress
Food for thought on the topic "Human aspects of project success"
- Episode 29: What project teams can learn from extreme sailors (10/2013)
- Episode 28: Why excessive performance orientation is nonsense (06/2013)
- Episode 27: A sense of duty can be a downfall. (01/2013)
- Episode 26: Out of the shock paralysis (10/2012)
- Episode 25: World of W-Wonders (05/2012)
- Episode 24: Battle of the sexes (01/2012)
- Episode 23: Stay on equal terms! (09/2011)
- Episode 22: The solution to the professional dilemma (12/2010)
- Episode 21: More performance for more money? (09/2010)
- Episode 20: When all else fails (08/2010)
- Episode 19: Wanting and being able to (07/2010)
- Episode 18: Telephone game (04/2010)
- Episode 17: The thing about the brain chicken (02/2010)
- Episode 16: The magic formula for presentations (11/2009)
- Episode 15: Ignorance of the law is no excuse. (09/2009)
- Episode 14: When anchors cause a project to capsize (06/2009)
- Episode 13: Hormonal emergencies in projects (05/2009)
- Episode 12: The economics of thought (02/2009)
- Episode 11: In the beginning was the image (12/2008)
- Episode 10: Scope for idea generators (11/2008)
- Episode 9: All kinds of people! (10/2008)
- Episode 8: Communication barbarians (08/2008)
- Episode 7: How software errors become visible (05/2008)
- Episode 6: Project crises and the sinking of the Titanic (04/2008)
- Episode 5: Are you head or stomach? (02/2008)
- Episode 4: Paths to a flash of inspiration (11/2007)
- Episode 3: Survival in the software wilderness (10/2007)
- Episode 2: Appropriate treatment of software developers (09/2007)
- Episode 1: Wonder beyond logic (07/2007)
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