Software V&V in High Assurance Agile: Verification: Testing Features

Background: In this series of posts, I’ve been using medical device development (as Regulated by U.S. FDA via CFR 820.30 and international standard IEC62304) as an exemplar for suggesting ways to develop high quality software in regulated (and other high assurance, high economic cost of failure) environments in an agile manner. This series is sponsored, [...]

Software V&V in High Assurance Agile Development: Verification: PRD, Features and PRD to SRS Traceability

Background: In this series of posts, I’ve been using medical device development (as Regulated by U.S. FDA via CFR 820.30 and international standard IEC62304) as an exemplar for suggesting ways to develop high quality software in regulated (and other high assurance, high economic cost of failure) environments in an agile manner. This series is sponsored, [...]

Software Verification and Validation in High Assurance Agile Development: Validation Sprint

Series Background: In this series of posts, I’ve been using medical device development (as Regulated by U.S. FDA via CFR 820.30 and international standard IEC62304) as an exemplar for suggesting ways to develop high quality software in regulated (and other high assurance, high economic cost of failure) environments in an agile manner. This series is [...]

Refactoring and Software Complexity Variability: A Whitepaper

My friend and colleague, Alex Yakyma, from Kiev, Ukraine, wrote this interesting whitepaper which describes how, based on the underlying mathematics, software complexity tends to be inherently higher than one might think. He also describes how refactoring, our key weapon in this battle, can be used to continuously manage complexity over time and thereby keep [...]

Agile Software Requirements is Now “Released”!

Phew! As with any good agile release, where the availability of incremental and valuable content precedes the big event,  the actual release of my new book, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise,  feels a bit anti-climatic. However, after  a period of — well basically it felt like forever — [...]

Agile Crosses the Chasm to….DoD?

I recently received an email from Dr. David F. Rico, (PMP, CSM) regarding the recent AFEI DoD Agile Development Conference, held on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 in Alexandria, Virginia. “The purpose of the conference was to promote agile acquisition and IT development practices in the U.S. DoD. AFEI is a non-profit organization who helps the [...]

2010 SSA Blog Stats – Year in Review

Hi, This year end summary of Scaling Software Agility blog stats from wordpress might be interesting to some…. (or it might not!) -Dean ============================================= The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers [...]

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