Category Archives: Leadership

Work Smarter, Not Harder

Posted on January 30, 2012 by nosnhojn

You’ve been working 12 hour days for the last 4 months. You’re coming off a night of only 4 hours sleep because all you could think about was the all-hands meeting with the CEO, CFO and CTO the next morning … Continue reading →

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Is Specialization Good For Hardware Development?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by nosnhojn

Last night I started reading “The Machine That Changed The World”. It’s a book from 1990 that I’ve been meaning to read for a couple years that documents the rise of lean production through the 1900′s at companies like Toyota. … Continue reading →

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Enough Already About Collaborating With The Fab!

Posted on June 12, 2011 by nosnhojn

In the last 2+ years that I’ve dedicated to applying agile methods to hardware development, a big part of my focus has been on using agile to bring design, verification and software developers closer together. In my opinion, we have … Continue reading →

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Not A Problem… The “Fluffy Stuff” Isn’t That Important Anyway

Posted on May 30, 2011 by nosnhojn

There are 17 different stages at the Agile2011 conference in Salt Lake City that cover a wide variety of topics. Though there are obviously technical stages (it is a software conference after all), what would probably look odd to hardware … Continue reading →

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