I get this often, and it’s a typical breakfast/lunch topic among recruiters whenever there’s a career/job fair happening: an applicant asking, “I applied, but how come I did not get a callback?” I often would respond to this question with a bunch of follow-up questions, such as: “When did you apply?” or “What role did…

What is Systems Engineering? For more than five decades, systems engineering has been known as a well-established field. Different definitions for a system, in diverse context, have been provided in literature. Examples are ANSI/EIA-632-1999, DAU Systems Engineering Fundamentals, IEEE Std 1220-1998, ISO/IEC 15288:2008, NASA Systems Engineering Handbook, and INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook. For instance, IEEE Std. 1220-1998 defines a system…

Focus on bringing your next innovation to market. Let an independent, on-demand testing center of excellence provide a unified and balanced combination of test planning, test management, automated testing services, best practices, tools, and technologies. Applying a TCoE within a managed quality assurance group resolves the challenges associated with decentralized and under-performing testing functions. In the…

There is no doubt that commercial passenger airplanes are big – the Boeing 747-8 and the Airbus A380 dominate in this category. Each has the ability to transport more than 500 passengers on the longest regularly scheduled commercial flights in the world, however, the flying giant Antonov An-225 Mriya (dream) tops these both for its…

Choosing the right software development lifecycle is crucial to the successful implementation of any project. Developers have many choices to choose from such as Waterfall, V-model, Agile, and spiral, just to name a few. The life-cycle adopted can vary with the industry, scope of the software system, and product in mind.  When safety and reliability…

The debate over the top or ‘best’ programming language has been ongoing for a number of years and is renewed each time a new language or variant surfaces. When asked, some engineers will have a fervent response ready to this within a heartbeat, while others might be more ambivalent. According to this year’s IEEE Spectrum…

October 24th, 2003 marked the final commercial flight of Concorde. Since then no commercial aircraft has been capable of supersonic flight. With rising fuel costs, increasingly efficient subsonic flight and a ban of supersonic flight over land, it seems as though the era of supersonic civilian flight is over.  However, a new wave of interest…

Many professions have myths or rather, misconceptions and half-truths, associated with them. And the world of software engineering and programming is no exception. Below are just some of the few common misconceptions our Program Managers have had to deal with. Developing software offshore is faster and cheaper Offshoring software development and testing can be a…

  Welcome to the wonderful world of software development. Prepare yourself for an exciting and thrilling journey filled with code, rules, and more code. And did I mention there are rules? If you are someone who is familiar with coding, then the concept of coding standards is nothing new to you. You may be a…

Science Fiction has ingrained itself in modern culture. Just a brief glimpse at the entertainment industry is enough to see that people LOVE sci-fi, and it’s easy to understand why; sci-fi fills most of us with a sense of awe and wonder. It brings the impossible to life in the most amazing ways. Many of…