Agile Development in Regulated Environments Example: Medical Devices – Waterfall Lifecyle Model

In an earlier post, I noted that I would be using the FDA CFR 21 820.30 regulations as our example “stalking horse” to try to develop a reasonable and  logical way of conforming agile development to these, and similar regulatory standards that are prevalent in high assurance software development industries. By way of context and [...]

The Agile Enterprise Big Picture Graphic (revised,again).

During the course of finalizing the Agile Software Requirements book, the Agile Enterprise Big Picture graphic has undergone some minor changes and has been revised for the umpteenth time. The blog series/category on the Big Picture is here, (but the book does a better job of describing it in a more systematic and incremental way). [...]

Agile Software Development in Regulated Environments Example: Medical Devices

In the last post, I introduced this  blog series and category wherein I’ll be describing agile approaches to developing high assurance software in regulated environments. This series is intended for those who do such development in the Avionics, Defense, Medical and Pharmaceutical industries, as well as providing some guidance for any business which can’t ethically [...]

New Blog Series: High Assurance Agile Development in Regulated Environments

Well, I’ve about wrapped up the book Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, at Addison-Wesley. Still working through the thousand nits and nats required to get it into print “hey, can we tighten the kerning on the handwriting font we are using to describe user stories….”  and “shouldn’t there [...]

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