Pick Up the PaSE: Recent Episodes
Steve Essich
This is Pick Up the PaSE (Podcast Assisted Software Engineering) with your host, the PaSE Master, Steve Essich, I want you to be more successful in the implementation and delivery of high-quality, mission-critical software systems. Drawing upon 40+ years of experience, I provide my pacers with information, opinions, advice, suggestions, and occasionally even wisdom.
Welcome Pacers. I am interrupting my new episode series on software architecture by introducing something new, detour episodes. These episodes which will appear from time to time, will depart from the mainline episodes, and talk about topics that interest me and I think will be interesting to you. Today’s detour is entitled Ray & Ed Take Us To School. We live life forward but can only understand that life backward. The path my life has taken is not necessarily how I saw it unfolding 40 years ago. I thought I might share my observations about my success. I think it can help guide you in your career. It’s time for a story about Ray and Ed.
This episode begins a new series of episodes on Software Architecture. This episode will introduce Software Architecture.
In this episode of Pick Up the PaSE we’re finishing the episode series, “The Core.” The topic is “No One Trick Ponies, Feed the Beast, Plan the Work - Work the Plan, Avoid Unnecessary Complexity.” First, we get in the time machine to trace my ancestors' journey from Germany to Maryland. I promise it's all related to Software Engineering. Then we discuss how we keep the beast satiated. (The beast is our customer.) Then we return to the topic of planning. Finally, we discuss complexity. Subscribe to Pick Up the PaSE, rate, and review wherever you subscribe to podcasts. Send an email to "steve@pickupthepase.com" with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYm0P4D8Tsc&t=36s
https://giving.umd.edu/GIVING/Fund.php?name=donald-c-essich-endowed-graduate-fellowship-in-the-college-of-agriculture-and-natural-resources
In this episode of Pick Up the PaSE we’re continuing the episode series, “The Core.” The main topic is “Collaboration, the SDP, & Change.” This episode is a little late, but better late than never. First, we discuss the concept of dynamic tension as inspired by Italian immigrant Angelo Siciliano. Then Steve gets in the time machine and goes back to his first "real" job and what he learned, and what he saw in Las Vegas (on ice skates no less). The topic of Software Development Process comes up and finally a short discussion about change. Subscribe to Pick Up the PaSE, rate, and review wherever you subscribe to podcasts. Send an email to "steve@pickupthepase.com" with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
In this episode of Pick Up the PaSE we’re continuing the episode series, “The Core.” The main topic is “Ownership, Advocacy & Communication.” Steve, the PaSE Master,” first discusses how software engineers need to commit to owning the solution to a business problem rather than just focused on building software. Then the discussion turns to the problem of communication, actually interpersonal communication. Finally, a short discussion about collaboration. Subscribe to Pick Up the PaSE, rate, and review wherever you subscribe to podcasts. Send an email to "steve@pickupthepase.com" with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
In this episode of Pick Up the PaSE we’re continuing the episode series, “The Core.” The main topic is “Introduction to Software Quality – Product Quality.” I talk about ISO/IEC 25010:2011 – Product Quality. I discuss each of the 8 product quality factors: Functional Suitability, Performance Efficiency, Compatibility, Usability, Reliability, Security, Maintainability, and Portability. I then discuss considerations in the use of these factors to guide the software development process. Subscribe to Pick Up The PaSE, rate and review. Send an email to "steve@pickupthepase.com" with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Link to ISO/IEC 25010:2011 / SQuaRE - https://amzn.to/3MoU8eR
In this episode of Pick Up the PaSE we’re continuing the episode series, “The Core.” The main topic is “Understanding Software Quality / Quality in Use.” I’ll talk about how I got interested in software quality as a topic and then explain ISO/IEC 25010:2011 – Quality in Use. After defining Quality in Use, I’ll list and define the 5 factors: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Satisfaction, Freedom from Risk, and Context Coverage. Subscribe to Pick Up The PaSE, rate and review. Send an email to "steve@pickupthepase.com" with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Link to ISO/IEC 25010:2011 / SQuaRE - https://amzn.to/3MoU8eR
In this episode of Pick Up the PaCE we’re starting the episode series, “The Core.” Before we get to the main topic, “Why is this so hard” were going to take a short detour and define some terms I’ve been throwing around. We're going to define the terms mission-critical, and provide a cursory definition of high-quality. Then on to why software engineering of mission-critical, high-quality software systems is so hard. Subscribe to Pick Up The PaSE, rate and review. Send an email to "steve@pickupthepase.com" with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
This is Pick Up the PaSE. PaSE, spelled P-A-S-E, is an acronym for Podcast assisted Software Engineering. My goal is to make my listeners, called "pasers" more productive software engineers and to make their software development projects more successful. In this episode, I’m going to tell my pasers a little about myself, my long career, and how I’m going to meet my goal: increasing my pasers productivity and success. I’ll follow that up with a description of what to expect in upcoming episodes.