Hello Timo

I just took a quick look at your site. I need to read your papers
and look over embUnit. It looks like you have done a lot of good work.

What are some of the issues your organization is running into?

Are all your embedded systems written in C?

James

On Nov 4, 2006, at 11:10 AM, tpunkka wrote:

> Thank you James for welcoming me.
>
> Trying to keep long story short. I have been professionaly developing
> embedded systems for 12 years. I got my masters in EE from Helsinki
> University of Tech. in 1998, but towards the new millenium I
> gradually shifted my focus more and more to embedded SW instead of
> electronics. So I'm pretty much your average embedded firmware
> developer. Somewhere around 2000 I felt that stuff is getting
> quite complex, and it is time to raise my super-programmer head and
> look out for something new. Until that it had been all ad hoc assy
> for 1-2kB apps. I quickly found out about lightweight, or agile,
> methods and got hooked. I signed for post graduate studies in 2003,
> but this time it is not EE, but software engineering and work
> psychology. Go figure.
>
> We have been doing agile-ish, Scrum-ish, embedded system development
> since 2003 and made a pilot with cross-disciplined team (ele, pcb,
> mech and sw) in 2004-2005. Currently the embedded SW team is still
> going strongly towards agility with Scrum and some of the so called
> agile practices, like pair programming and TDD. We have also been
> able to infect some other development departments.
>
> The setting for our agile intervention is a global large
> organization (~100 000 employers). So we know an administrative and
> heavy bureaucracy org when we see one.
>
> Challenging environment for rapid dev with any method one might say.
> You can find some thoughts and papers from the journey at:
>
> http://ng-embedded.blogspot.com/
>
> Hope to see some energy in this group. It took a while for me to
> find it!
>
> Anyone attending the Agile Business Conference in London next week?
>
>
>

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