Balancing agility and discipline in a medical device software organisation
| Autor: | Brian Fitzgerald, Garret Coady, Martin McHugh, Valentine Casey, Fergal McCaffery, Klaas-Jan Stol |
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| Přispěvatelé: | SFI, Science Foundation Ireland |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Engineering Agile usability engineering Process management business.industry Computer Sciences Empirical process (process control model) agile Agile Unified Process 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre V-Model medical Software development process home-ground analysis Extreme programming practices Computer Science 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Lean software development business Software engineering computer Agile software development |
| Zdroj: | Conference papers Communications in Computer and Information Science ISBN: 9783642388323 SPICE |
| Popis: | peer-reviewed Agile development techniques are becoming increasingly popular in the generic software development industry as they appear to offer solutions to the problems associated with following a plan-driven Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). However, agile methods may not be suited to all industries or organisations. For agile methods to succeed, an organisation must be structured in a way to accommodate agile methods. Medical device software development organisations are bound by regulatory constraints and as a result face challenges when they try to completely follow an agile methodology, but can reap significant benefits by combining both agile and plan-driven SDLC such as the Waterfall or V-Model. This paper presents an analysis of a medical device software development organisation based in Ireland, which is considering moving to agile software development techniques. This includes the performing of a Home-Ground Analysis to determine how agile or disciplined1 the organisation currently is. Upon completion of the Home-Ground Analysis recommendations were made to the organisation as to how they could tailor their existing structure to better accommodate agile development techniques. These recommendations include adopting agile practices such as self-organising teams to promote a culture of “chaos” within the organisation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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