Take risks, be first, launch something as the minimum viable product when it's 80 per cent ready
Learning from the 'best of them' - but while it is generally just a nuisance on my fondleslab, I might be a little more concerned if I was driving one!
Take risks, be first, launch something as the minimum viable product when it's 80 per cent ready – such is the philosophy of the head of Bosch's new Connected Mobility Services division, Bernd Heinrichs. Bosch announced the newly created division at its Connected World conference in Berlin. As its first head, Heinrichs …
> Its that type of mentality that should not be present in anyone running projects that have to deal with safety and could put human lives at risk.
That's exactly what I do for a living.
I am not sure what "type of mentality" you refer to. The "push out the door when we've got 80% of the way there"? What exactly makes you think that the SoL stuff is dealt with as the last 20% of a project? Is that the way you would run a project?
Take risks - instead of being stuck in the outlook of the conservative German manufacturing behemoth.
Be first - to market instead of constantly following the trend and playing catch-up.
Launch something as minimum viable product - instead of taking longer to come up with a gold-plated, all singing product at launch where that last 20% of functionality will be used by 2% of the people buying the product.
Not sure they're talking about cutting corners or risking anyone's health here. It looks much more like an attempt to change the ethos by being quicker and more 'agile' within the market place.
Yeah, bang up some shitty code and let the customers debug it.
Congratulations, Bosch, you've just made my "Never Buy Version 1.0" list.
And you're not far from my "Never Buy At All" list either.
As for your stance on security, I think I'll be hearing a lot more about Bosch in the future in these columns.
How much cash is being burned based on ludicrously optimistic estimates of when self driving vehicles will be viable for general use (e.g. M-Way driving relatively easy, urban driving esp with UK pedestrians where no such thing as jay walking and people cross roads willy nilly with a bit of eye contact with driver (if driver is lucky) ), and I look forward to AI negotiating who takes what turn on a 2 way road reduced to 1 car width by parked cars that people manage easily with (depending on scenario) facial expressions, hand gestures, use of lights.
So you think AI is special in turning into reduced width streets? Round here its humans and cheap sat-navs that require the local farmer to come out and try and tow the buggers out of trouble.
However I would imagine co-operative AI will do a lot better job than the BMW drivers who have forced me to leave my car and walk away in situations like you mention where they could reverse three or four car lengths but seem to think I should reverse 40 or so after having claimed right of way long before they entered the restriction. I frequently reverse far more than that down here in Devon largely because I know I can and townies are fucking hopeless during the holiday season though sometimes people just take the piss and at 6'4" inches and twenty stone dont expect me to always feel like I cant be arsed to wait for you to learn how to use your wing mirrors.
"I think to build a separate entity – no, that's wrong, it sounds like a silo – but building this entity helps us to operate it in a more agile way than some of the more traditional entities of Bosch,"
OUR MORE AGILE ENTITY WILL ASSIMILATE ALL OTHER LESS AGILE ENTITIES. DO NOT RESIST.
Sorry, I could not resist.
> they also referred to each other as {Mr,Dr} $SURNAME.
As said above, that is how Germans refer to each other in a professional setting.
What is more, if you speak both languages, you may find yourself switching between addressing the same person as "Michael" or as "Herr Dr.-Ing. Wagner" in the same conversation, depending on language used.
The suits in company colours are not unusual either.
.... and AIMaster Pilot.
He even jokes – half seriously – about selling Bosch's connected services "to IT integrators".
They'd be certainly willing, ready and able to Trial and Trail their Bosch Offering with Customary Teutonic Precision the Name of a Greater IntelAIgent Game Play ..... For Believed to Be Absolute AIMastery of All Possible Configurations in AI Provided Virtual Reality Promotions ..... Extra Terrestrial Presentation of Future Media Operations in urSCADASystems.
In this thread, a surprisingly depressing sight. AManFromMars making more sense than some new talking head making a PR release. ...... Outer mongolian custard monster from outer space (honest)
A surprisingly depressing sight, Outer mongolian custard monster from outer space (honest)? You aint doing IT right. Honest.
I always thought Bosch was a good name in power tools, so when my sister asked me for ideas for Christmas presents I suggested a Bosch cordless drill.
I took it to France to fit a new kitchen in my home there, up in the Pyrenees, 40 miles from the nearest DIY store. I had just over 450 screws to drive in.
The fucking drill motor magnets started going round inside the casing after the first twenty screws.
I'm talking 3/4" number 6 into chipboard with a pilot hole pre-drilled at the factory.
Not exactly taxing for any power tool.
Rather than drive an 80 mile round trip to get another drill from Perpignan I put the rest of the screws in the old-fashioned way, with a screwdriver.
That was in January 2011, and I still have the tennis elbow I got as a result of that crappy bit of Bosch kit.
I'll never buy *anything* made by Bosch ever again.