Using agile methods in medical device development

New artiicle I wrote in EETimes about agile in medical devices - #agile

For over a decade, software teams have benefited from agile development methods, where solutions evolve through iterative and incremental delivery using self-organizing, cross-functional teams of generalizing specialist. The generalizing specialist is someone with one or more technical specialties (e.g. developer, tester, requirements engineer, etc.) who actively seek to gain new skills in these existing specialties and in other areas. Agile promotes adaptive planning, time-boxing, evolutionary architecture, high quality, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change. Everyone on the team does whatever it takes to develop the solution, crossing traditional functional boundaries. Agile teams avoid using specialist, who focus solely on one discipline to prevent what has become to be known as "waiting on a specialist." [Get a 10% discount on ARM TechCon 2012 conference...

Full article: http://www.eetimes.com/design/medical-design/4398137/Usin...