I work on Agile software development programs. Most everyone in Boulder Colorado works on Agile development programs. We meet once a month or so for coffee and talk about Agile. We have formal MeetUps hosted by local vendors - Rally, Scaled Agile, and other agile development shops.
The range of projects at our morning coffee clutch go from one man shows to multi-billion dollar space flight programs and back again. There are times when we get pissed off at each other for all the right reasons - this is the big ended littled ended argument of Gulliver's Travels that was actually an argument about the bit order in microprocessors when the 32 bit machines started with floating point calculations - Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace. When I was working on embedded systems and we had to choose a 32 bit machine for our new signal processing system, we got in huge fights about how the floating points software was going to be moved over to the floating point hardware.
So the question is what are the shared principles across a broad range of projects, business and technical domains. Here's some background on the domain I work and the application of Agile in that domain. I'm speaking at the Boulder Agile Meetup July 27th if anyone is interested in hearing about Agile in Government.
Here's some background on Agile in the domain I work
- Real Time Embedded Software Using Agile technology
- Agile Development and Testing in Embedded Systems
- Accelerating embedded software development via agile techniques The nine strategies that lead to successful embedded software development
- Agile Development Methodology for Embedded Systems: A Platform-Based Design Approach
Typically these are also Software Intensive System of Systems. Here's some background on those
- Introduction,
- Foundations,
- Development Lifecycle,
- Requirements,Analysis and Design,
- Implementation,
- Verification and Validation,
- Summary and Outlook
So when we hear something about exploring new approaches, ask first - in what domain have you tested that idea? By what Principles can that new idea be accepted into a domain outside your domain? Is there any evidence that your new idea can work outside your personal experience? How would I test your idea before spending my customer's money? What would be those test cases?
