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Articles by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert
How Medical Companies are Innovating Through Agile Practices
Key Takeaways Teams building safety-critical products like medical devices are finding that Agile practices give them the needed quality and speed Agile is right for safety-critical apps because it puts quality first Agile’s flexibility and regulatory bodies’ needs for validation / verification are not in conflict at all Examples are great to learn from, but they can tempt people to copy too closely, so our answer is to help readers to better “see” how people have used key underlying Agile...
The Themes Behind AATC2017
By Brian Button, Craig Smith, Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, Richard Seroter, and Laurie Williams Remember when Agile was just about team practices, back when XP first started (or maybe we are just young and you just read about in a history book!)? Regardless, the new and exciting thing that XP did was link up development and testing in a way that couldn’t be split apart and began to remove the silos that had existed in the IT world.
Q&A on the Book Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems
Key Takeaways Companies doing agile development for safety-critical work still need to cover the same hazard mitigation, documentation, and regulatory compliance activities they always have done. Adopting an agile approach will be challenging. A cooperative / collaborative / cross-functional mindset is absolutely necessary.
Tracking where your time went with Lego workstream visualisation
How much of your time do you spend on planned work? The work which you set out to do today? I worked with a team that quantified this number and focused their process improvements on moving that figure upwards. It took us a while to figure out an effective way of tracking it. At first, we tried putting tally marks on a whiteboard. Each representing how we spent our time that day. That worked for a while until we started to run out of whiteboard space.
Yes, Hardware Can Be Agile!
“You can’t do 2-week iterations with hardware!” This is the first thing you’ll hear when talk turns to Agile methods in hardware-software product development. A mix of existing robust hardware development ideas, plus a few newly taken from Agile software are being used now by real teams, even to get around - or through - the challenge of doing fast iterations.
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