Embedded Developer's Survival Guide, 2005 19
An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices has published the full keynote address delivered at the Embedded Systems Conference 2005 by Wind River CEO Ken Klein. The hardnosed speech presents a five-point action plan for device software developers who are interested in keeping their jobs -- as opposed to becoming "roadkill," as Klein puts it. The speech is decidedly short on warm fuzzies, but does offer a few practical considerations for engineer job survival in the post-recession era."
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Maybe embedded developers are:
1. too busy working to read Slashdot
or 2. too unemployed or broke to afford internet connectivity
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To me, it looks like he's fantasizing about quality improvements from moving engineering work overseas, where labor is cheaper. Execs often think the less
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Quite so. I find it hard to stomach what this guy is saying - first he purports that he is one of us engineers because he has a science degree, then says he has 500 people reporting to him and sits on a board. Which is it? Suit or techie? Suit, obviously. Then he has the gall to proclaim that it's the engineers' faults that 30-40 percent of projects fail. IMHO the following factors are most likely to cause a project to fail:
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What practical considerations? (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe instead of the article's suggestion of "don't take change personally" (really!), I should learn to not take insults of my intelligence personally. If only I could mod the article "-1, Troll"...
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You forgot to mention:
Politics-Oriented Software Development (Score:3, Interesting)
The alternate viewpoint to this article is given by Kuro5hin's "Politics-Oriented Software Development" [kuro5hin.org]. That article includes advice and insights such as: