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This paper reports the experience of applying agile methods in the defense sector, characterized mostly by embedded and mission critical software. We describe the experience of creating a Command and Control system for the 4th Logistic Department of the Italian Army's General Staff. The project was approved by the Army as a pilot to determine whether it could be possible to reduce development costs...
Agile methods are now a mainstream production process and its proponents are no longer considered hackers or cowboy coders. Still, in embedded and safety critical domains there is somehow the expectation that the approach be “more” plan-based; at least, many of the current normatives seem to lean toward such approach. A definite change in attitude has emerged with the latest DoD standards in the United...
Key performance indicators are used by some large enterprises to alert executives to opportunities and dangers. Executives seek "leading indicators" to help them make decision early enough to make a difference. In large enterprises adopting agile practices, managers sometimes use behavioral compliance metrics to help teams self-assess or to gauge how practices are performed. These often...
High safety and performance requirements drive the mission criticality of space exploration systems. There is often only one chance for mission success, and failure can be fatal. Although proximate causes of failure are often technical, root causes are usually mismanagement of the social context, leading to human error. Thus, while needing to maintain safety standards and faced with budgetary cuts...
Agile development methods are growing in popularity with a recent survey reporting that more than 80% of organizations now following an agile approach. Agile methods were seen initially as best suited to small, co-located teams developing non-critical systems. The first two constraining characteristics (small and co-located teams) have been addressed as research has emerged describing successful agile...
This manuscript describes a technique and its tool support to perform comparisons on agile methods, based on a set of relevant features and attributes. This set includes attributes related to four IEEE's Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) Knowledge Areas (KAs) and to the agile principles defined in the Agile Manifesto. With this set of attributes, by analysing the practices proposed by...
This article discuss the experience of the software development group working in Cochleartrade with introducing Scrum as an agile methodology. We introduce the unique challenges we faced due to the nature of our product and the medical device industry.These are long validation cycles, strict regulatory standards and a high level of dependence on physical devices among others. We then show how we managed...
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