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--Originally published at TI2011 – Alex’s Barn

As Engineers we create products, develop solutions. These projects not only (could) have a potential benefit for the society development and wellness of the people who would use our products.

From this idea, we could endorse an utopical image of the world, where our services are offered as a gift to the world, because, Who wouldn’t love being part of the progress of this society, impacting lots of lifes over decades or, even more, over centuries?

This sounds great, but it would be way better if we are paid for this.

The cruel reality is, we all need money. We all want money. People or enterprises, everyone is looking for money, making more and more profits. In this course we have to attach to this point of view. An Engineer’s work has value, it could be represented as a factual payment, each company deserves profits for their services. This thinking is healthy, because we deserve that paid for our services. This self-valuing thinking is responsible of all our Economy, for several centuries.

Settled our basis, let’s dive in Engineer Econ.

A brief definition of Eng. Econ.

A whole definition I found about EE. Engineering economics quantifies the benefits and costs associating with engineering projects to determine if they save enough money to warrant their capital investments. Engineering economics requires the application of engineering design and analysis principles to provide goods and services that satisfy the consumer at an affordable cost.

Engineering economics involves the systematic evaluation of the economic benefits of proposed solutions to engineering problems. The engineering economics involves technical analysing with emphasis on the economic aspects and has the objective of assisting decisions.

Engineering economics is closely aligned with Conventional Micro-Economics. It is devoted to problem solving and

--Originally published at TI2011 – The Broken Wallflower

In this post we are going to talk about the origins of economics in software engineering, fist of all economic is a science that studies the resources needed to fulfill the human needs, this also includes the human behaviour, and engineering is the science that involves techonologies in the proffesional area. Saying this, economics in software engineering is a field who involves the basis of economics into technology systems.

At a first look it could seem that a software system may not require any economics knowledge, but that is not true, nowadays every system that is in the market requires a full in depht investigation about the market itself, one big example could be Uber, this system is similar to a taxi system, the only differences are that Uber provides a higher quality service, you get to choose the type of car that you’d like to ride in, and a few extra details that make your ride a lot better than riding a cab.

Lets analyze how Uber did to make it to a top system

First, the idea of making this system a real thing was to give users a better experience when trying to get to any places, provide a cheaper service and a safer service among the ones that already existed.

Second, establishing the market, unfortunately Uber is not made for everyone, eventhough everyone can hop into a Uber car, not everyone is allowed to use the system, there is an age restriction to use the system.

Third, places where the system would be more required.

Fourth, once competition starts showing up, what will they do to keep being number one worldwide

These are some of the thigns

--Originally published at TI2011 – The Broken Wallflower

For those who doesn’t know what The deadline is, the deadline is a novel by Tom DeMarco published in 1997, this is one risky project because it tries to teach how does the software project management works using a novel as it’s conductor, the story is about a man who is kidnapped by an organization who is trying to reclute the best talents in order to become one big organization capable of developing world leadership systems.

During these posts we are going to disccus about the adventures that the main character faces during the book, and give our point of view about the novel chapters, with no further to say lets analyse chapters 1 and 2.

Part 1

For the fist part of the book the novel introduce us to an auditorium, where apparently there is a program that will teach the audience how to take advantage of the upcoming oportunities, and notice when an oportunity is given to them. The main character, Mr Tompkins, seems like he does not what to be there because as soon as the novel starts it tell us that Tompkins has ben asleep in the back seats of the auditorium for around an hour, where of couse he has been no been paying attention to the event, as soon as he wakes up the noticed that a well loking woman is sitting right next to him.

Mr Topkins starts asking the woman about the conference that is being given but seems like she does not what to talk about it, little did Mr Topkins know that this woman is sitting next to him for a reason, they are sitting so far behind that they are able to talk without interrupting the event, so

--Originally published at Erick learning experience

One of my first impressions while I was reading this chapter was that this book is going to be just theory and that stuff but when I start reading more the chapter was kind of funny, the most interesting was when Tompkins start talking with Lahksa Hoolihan about who was she and start talking about the importance of knowing who to kidnap, when she start talking like about that I start thinking about what I was reading and in my opinion if someone tell me that is kidnapper I would not accept a drink of that person but in the shoes of Tompkins it was a good idea because it was Dr. Pepper and most important it was a diet Dr. Pepper so why not?

Talking about more serious thing about the first chapter I agree in the part that one of the most important thing about a company is to get the right people but is one of the most complicated thing because get those persons is not cheap but is a crucial part to make a company a success.

Chapter 2

I start this second chapter hoping to know what happen to Mr. Tompkins and I agree with Tompkins that this chapter it’s like to be on drugs, becuase in my opinion they are explaining some important stuff in the manner of Project Management in a very strange but interesting way, the things that I keep as the most important of this chapter is the importance of bring attention to the people, teach them how to make teams, make them feel as part of the team, make sure they stay healthy, the importance of letting express themselves.

--Originally published at TI2011 – Alex’s Barn

Hi again.

After a cold winter holiday, bunch of hours of procrastinating personal projects, and working on two novels, I come back to school. New projects, new perspectives, new emotions.

This semester, I had to take the “Evaluation Project” lecture and, one of the goals is reading “The Deadline” novel, from Tom DeMarco. After a couple of pages, pop up a concept: P E O P L E.

This made come into my head a story I experienced before.

The intern who learned manage people.

Last summer, during my internship, the host Enterprise made groups of 3 interns and formed teams with them. The main goal was each team had to develop their own mobile application, in order to solve a critical social issue.

No problemo till here.

My team was conformed by two girls and me. Let’s call them Ariana and Becka.

Becka was a freshment girl, and If I had to describe her in one word It would be: Excitement. She was always full of energy, Lots of ideas and she couldn’t wait to start working with us. During her first year of college, she had just a couple of programming courses, and her experience in programming was minimal.

On the other hand, we had Ariana. Ariana was a very relaxed girl, who lived in the same city where the enterprise was located. Besides all interns who had to move to that area, she kept living in her parent’s home, keeping her life outside work. She tended to left work on Fridays as soon as possible. Next day, in her stories, you could watch her in an awesome weekend adventure, even in another state. She didn’t looked interested in the project, she Continue reading "The Deadline Chapter 1 & 2"