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Showing posts with label Integration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Integration. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 July 2016

The PayTV Platform VS Product Debate

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This post has been on my TODO list for four years. It started as trying to clarify the role of the STB: Is it a Platform, or is it a Product...
Monday, 16 February 2015

Non Functional Requirements and Sluggishness

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There is a lot of talk about whether writing code, or creating software, is really an art, a craft, or is it a highly disciplined, softwar...
Tuesday, 27 January 2015

To Ringfence or not to Ringfence?

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I have been running systems & software engineering projects for some years now, the topic of " ringencing " teams seems to b...
Friday, 25 July 2014

Core competencies/behaviours for System Integration Engineers & Release Managers

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I have written in the past on system integration topics, you can click on "Integration" in the tag cloud...  It is interesti...
Monday, 19 May 2014

Achieving continuous product delivery in Set Top Box (STB) software projects: Challenges & Expectations

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The story all software product development teams face at some point in their journey, not necessarily unique to digital Set Top Box (STB) ...
Sunday, 2 March 2014

Applying Google's Test Analytics ACC model to Generic Set Top Box Product

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Early this year, I recently completed, what I felt was the best software book I've read in a really long time:  How Google Tests Soft...
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Saturday, 15 February 2014

Sticky Metaphors for Software Projects: Bankable Builds, Surgical Mode

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In this post I share an experience from a recent project where I influenced the senior management team to change strategy & tactics, by...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Summer Reading List over December

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Since returning home* to South Africa in June 2011, life has been really pretty damn hectic, they say relocating your family & househo...
Monday, 4 November 2013

Nissan Motors Production Line and Software Systems Development

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This week I was invited by @Farid from Crossbolt to tour the Nissan Production Line in Pretoria , to see first-hand the Lean / Kanban / K...
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Saturday, 13 July 2013

What it takes to cut the mustard in STB Systems Integration

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I have had this topic sitting on my backlog since I first activated this blog, now is a good time to start this topic off since recently it...
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Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Programme / Systems Readiness Heat Maps

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In the past I've written about the make up of the Digital TV (DTV) ecosystem or "value chain" making it quite clear that th...
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013

System Integration is King - Release Manager, Build Meister-Gatekeeper

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I spent a lot of energy in the last week trying to (and succeeded in) convincing some senior managers about processes, that in my humble op...
Monday, 29 April 2013

Pragmatic Set-Top-Box QA Testing - Don't just trust Requirements-to-Test Coverage scripts

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This post might be a little edgy - I think it's important to understand alternative perspectives around Set-Top-Box (STB) testing, how...
Saturday, 27 April 2013

Worlds of QA Testing in Digital TV Systems Projects

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I have previously written about the Digital TV ecosystem with its complexities and challenges in defining the Architecture & Systems ...
Thursday, 7 March 2013

Overview of Open Source Software Governance in Projects

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In an earlier post , I introduced the topic of the increasing use of Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) in Digital TV projects. This po...