The rubber duck image is inspired by a software development “best practice” of sharing difficult problems with a rubber duck. The act of explaining brings clarity and so this technique accelerates software debug. It also follows that a rubber duck learns...
Do, Doc, Done captures a way of working that is popular among support engineers and which often works well. For example : a case comes my way in the issue tracking system. I fix it (Do), send an email or write a comment when I close the case (Doc)...
A multi-million dollar chip production line is halted, but it’s not clear where the problem is coming from. An independent consulting engineer is called in. She walks all around the production floor looking at the screens, the indicators, the dials, the cables,...
It’s well known that many professionals have difficulty communicating with people outside their speciality and it’s not unusual for start-ups to be frustrated by an indifferent world – “why does nobody appreciate our great idea??”! Ironically,...
Consider what it takes to build an aircraft carrier and put it out to sea. Tens of thousands of contractors crossing multiple disciplines, organisations, states and countries are involved. Another ten thousand or so do the actual construction. About five thousand...
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