The virtual firmware game plan
Issue 3: Those times when you're stumped and have no one in sight to bounce ideas off of.
Game plan: I'm stumped! It is a problem if the engineer is isolated. Here are a couple of thoughts. Screen sharing has become so easy now. Screen share and talk it through. If you're in consulting as I am, hopefully you have good reach into the consultant marketplace. Then you can contact a colleague in that engineers location to get some real-time, side-by-side help. Skype chat--we hold Skype chat meetings all the time. The dynamics of a Skype chat meeting are interesting. Everyone gets a word in! No more the loudest in the room gets his way! You would be surprised what you can accomplish in a Skype chat meeting. Someone mentioned to me that the fastest typist wins. Hmm, ok but we're all bit-heads, right? We're all pretty fast with the keys, unless you're a hardware guy trying to write firmware and peck your way. Advantage firmware guy! OK maybe we have to slow things down a bit to allow the hardware guys to catch up ;).
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