A suggestion of 5 more things that could improve your systems engineering projects. — As a follow on from my previous post, I provide 5 more recommendations that can improve your Systems Engineering. These are slightly more technical than the previous 5 tips, however they should help, whatever the project. Consistent Terminology. Make sure everyone uses the same language. I am not referring to…

A suggestion of 5 different things that could improve your systems engineering projects. — Employ the right people for the right job. Ensure leaders know how to lead, ensure engineers are technically competent in the required areas. The only requirements are customer (and other stakeholder) requirements, and system requirements. Treat software, hardware, mechanical, etc as a single team. …

The classic WBS is not very helpful for providing a software estimate. It requires a second dimension to make it work — I’ve been writing software for 40 years and one thing that I’ve noticed is that we still don’t have a crystal ball! Unfortunately for every project manager out there, we still cannot see into the future. …

The application of scientific principles to the experience of having children. — I am a very proud father and I feel incredibly blessed to have children. I also have a background and career in scientific and technical subjects. …

Communication, Vision, Wisdom! — Software products are very diverse and thus a variety of different Software Architectures are used. Ultimately the success of a software project and the acceptance of its architecture as ‘good’ is dependent mainly on: In-service experience of the product and its architecture. The Software Architect. In Software Engineering we steal…

Dynamic, scan-on-demand, GLR parsing, when a regular expression is just not enough — One purpose of AGL is to provide support for rapid development of small scale DSLs, covering the use cases when a regular expression is not enough, but a parser generator is more than you want. If you want a parser for a full blown programming language capable of handling 1000s…

When using RegEx is just not enough — Text input is a major part of many web applications. In many cases, the text needs to be validated. That is to say that the input is not valid for any text, but rather for text that conforms to specific rules. In simple situations a Regular Expression can be used…

A poem about our creators relationship with man over the Old Testament period — Eternity abounds with God — Father, Son and Holy Ghost “Relationship between us three is great”, He states, “This is so good, why don’t we share and spread our love Let us create a universe, worlds, and men to be our mates.” The word is spoken, breath is breathed and…

Overcoming the integration issues — Kotlin is one of many new languages that target the JVM. However, one thing I have found that makes Kotlin especially useful is that it targets multiple platforms, not just the JVM. In the context of web applications this Multiplatform feature of Kotlin enables us to write code once, in…