Experiment Template: Make Tests Efficient and Useful
How to make results of trials valuable? A template for the execution of experiments and their documentation.
Andreas Stucki
is Dipl. Ingenieur ETHZ, co-founder and managing director. He is committed to clean technical results, meaningful processes and leadership as empowerment and development. In former life he was a high frequency engineer, project manager and technical salesman. Andreas bikes, paraglides and has been doing karate since he was 52. "The journey is the reward"
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PDCA Snail: an Image for Engineers Skills
What defines a good engineer? Key success factors for development engineers apart from technical knowledge.
News May 2016
New website, now fully responsive. New staff and again capacity for your projects.
CMMI & Time Wasters: 40% Faster Development?
How does one get rid of the time wasters in innovation and product development? A study and a possible solution: CMMI.
ISO 9001 & ISO 26262: Certification Functional Safety
Ready for ISO 26262? Training, ISO 9001 certification and process upgrades let us reach the goal quickly.
Dreyfus Model: How To Evaluate Expertise?
How to asses specialists? The Dreyfus model in practical use for engineers.
ECC 2017: Presentation about Functional Safety
Visit the 10th Embedded Computing Conference 2017 in Winterthur!
ESE Congress 2017: Presentation about Effort Estimation
Visit our presentation on estimation at the ESE Kongress in Sindelfingen!
ECC 2018: "Why Processes: is this not Just Ardous?"
Visit our presentation on development processes at the ECC 2018 in Winterthur!
Safety & Security 2018: "From Functioning to Safe..."
Visit our presentation on development processes for functional safety!
Implementing Functional Safety: Succinct
An (almost) short list which shows the additional tasks for implementing functional safety.
Development Functional Safety: How is it Done?
What must be done in a development for functional safety? An overview of the design of safety critical systems.
Effort Functional Safety vs. "Normal" Development
How do you coarsely estimate the effort for the development of safety-critical systems and functional safety?
ESE Congress 2020: Presentation "The Solcept Way"
Visit our presentation on management at the virtual ESE Kongress!
ScProbe Free Programming Connector
Do you need to connect JTAG, serial or debug ports? We have a small solution that costs you nothing on the PCB.
Effort Estimation: Estimation Tools for Projects
Do you need an effort estimate for your cost calculation? A guide on how to estimate project effort.
Planning Poker: Instructions and Deck
Do you want to tap the experience of your team? How to play planning poker? Experience the easy way towards accurate estimations.
Outsourcing Checklist: Pick the Right Partner
What should you consider when you outsource? How to outsource? Our outsourcing checklist.
ESE Congress 2019: Presentation about Safety and Psychology
Visit our presentation on FuSa an psychology at the ESE Kongress in Sindelfingen!
Risk Management: a Guide and Template
Do you want to take your project management one step further? A guide to simple effective project risk management.
Innovation-Pareto: When is it Finished?
Hooray it's up and running! So the innovation is done? Or is it not? Some thoughts on non-functional requirements for products.
Digitalization of Products: a Path to the Business Model
A simple guide on how to digitalize your products, make them ready for IoT. So that also the business model is the right one.
Project Estimation from Clear Specifications
Are your project goals clear? This is how to generate accurate effort estimations based on a work breakdown structure.
Coarse Estimation from Little Information
Are only the basic functions clear? How to generate a ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) estimation from fuzzy specifications.
Estimation Models: Uncertainty and Distributions
Which distributions an models can be used for effort estimation? Three-point and two-point estimation, lognormal distribution...
IoT Implementation: Conversion to a Product
How do you get from an idea to a working IoT product? An iterative IoT implementation approach to risk mitigation, with cybersecurity.
Estimation Practice: Small Hints with a Big Effect
And how to estimate in practice? Smaller and bigger tricks for the effort estimation of development projects.
ECC 2022: "Software Safety Analysis for Practitioners"
Visit our presentation on software safety analysis (SW-FMEA) at the ECC 2022 in Winterthur!
Embedded-IT: The Difference
What does embedded mean? What is the difference between embedded and IT? Why?
ESE Congress 2022: "How Much Democracy can Processes Take?"
Visit our presentation on how to keep processes liveable at the ESE Kongress in Sindelfingen!
Misconceptions FuSa: What Functional Safety is Not
An FMEA makes the product safe. At the end, we go to the TÜV. We finish the product once and then make it safe. Really?
ESE Congress 2021: Presentation "Von roter und blauer Arbeit"
Visit our presentation on leadership at the virtual ESE Kongress!
Body Leasing: Really Simpler?
Body leasing has many advantages. Is this really true? A comparision with awarding a project to a full service provider.
Cost of Product and Software Development
Are you considering custom product development or software development? We explain development costs, prices and price differences.
Development Strategies for Embedded
Engineering firm, own development team, EEMS, freelancer or near-shoring/off-shoring? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
Paradoxes of Embedded Development
Is the obvious thing always the right thing? We believe that we should consider a few paradoxes in product development.
Overruns of Time and Budgets: Why?
Why do development projects exceed budget and deadlines? Overrun causes and how to eliminate them (alas, not always without pain).
Core Competencies when you Work with Service Providers?
What and where are core competencies anyway? And what does it mean for them when you work with external parties?
Collaboration Models: What are Your Benefits?
What does a cooperation with us mean? In terms of no lock-in, zero-cost-of-ownership warranty, quality, innovation and hourly rates?
Project Flow: How do we Work With You?
When we carry out a project for you, how does it feel for you? What are your most important interactions with us?
Project Management: Questions and Answers
How does embedded development work? Answers on tools, agile methods, specifications, projects with third parties...
Engineering: Questions and Answers on Embedded
Do you have questions on embedded development? On product development and projects? We answer them here.
Effort Estimations for Managers
How much trust does the estimate deserve? How "accurate" can it be anyway? Why is it "never" right?
System Design: is it Worthwhile?
Systems Engineering/ System Design uses 10% of the project time. Is this effort worthwhile? There is evidence!