Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Teaching software
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
Üniversite tercihi
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Avanta kültürü ve sonuçları
Becerilerinin birincil unsur olmadığını fark edenler ya daha fazla değer görecekleri başka diyarlara gider ya da demoralizasyon nedeniyle herhangi bir yenilik/girişim için uğraşma istekleri düşer. Bu ortamda kalan ve avantadan iğrenenler için mantıklı olan iyi şartlar sağlayan büyük kurumlarda teknik işlerde çalışarak kendilerini izole etmektir. Böyle insanlar girişimciliğe ancak iyi bir iş bulamamaları durumunda ya da bilgisayar oyunu geliştirme gibi aracıların az olduğu sektörlerde başvurmalıdır.
Bir örnek vaka olarak avanta kültürünün Rus ordusundaki etkileri için bkz How Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine
Thursday, June 02, 2022
Project priorities and role of top management
In my earlier years, I thought that when managers are reminded of priorities, they would quickly change their way of doing business. To my dismay, I saw that this is sometimes not the case, with catastrophic results. When you say to anyone "a project should follow priorities", you will get a "yes" response 100% of the time. But implementation can vary widely. After living in fantasy land, the second most common reason of project failures are not technical or budget deficiencies but wasting time on low priority tasks while many high priority ones were still waiting for attention.
Top management should from time to time have informal meetings with people one or two levels down the project manager and ask them whether they think the project in managed according to priorities.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Career advice for engineers
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Aligning audience expectations
- What problem are you solving, what are the alternatives, what is unique about your solution?
- Tell the audience what to expect, what they will get at the end of the presentation, e.g. "to get familiar with Yocto concepts and workflow, to build a minimal Linux image".
- More importantly, tell what NOT to expect, e.g. "we will not build a full Linux distribution from scratch because it will take more than one day"
- What is expected of the audience, e.g. you should know how to install Linux packages.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Bad argumentation by repetition
- Person A provides argument A1
- Person B provides counter argument to A1, namely B1
- Person A provides counter argument to B1, namely A2
- Person B provides counter argument to A2, namely B3
- Person A repeats argument A1 instead of providing a counter argument to B3
- Person B reminds Person A that A1 has already been countered by B1 and that he needs to come up with a counter argument to B3
- During the course of discussion Person A keeps on repeating some of the previous arguments and Person B usually gets frustrated by this repetition. Person A cannot understand why Person B is getting angry, even tough Person B has stated the reason.