The phenomenal success of the Scrum framework, as an approach to organizing and conducting software-product development, is now well known. Many words have been written on the topic (some of them by me), and many...

  Can an Agile process be used for hardware development? Would it bring to hardware development the same benefits it does to software development? Suspecting that the answers to both questions were “Yes,” but unsure...

Agile for Hardware Discussion Panel Recap On Tuesday July 28th, we hosted and participated in a virtual executive discussion panel on the topic of the cost of a defect in hardware. The focus of the...

Achieving Business Agility Welcome to the second article in a series of posts about how the key concepts of Agile can be leveraged in a Systems Engineering environment to help businesses on their agility journey....

Achieving Business Agility Today\'s businesses have multiple competing forces to contend with. There are changes in market dynamics, changes in workforce competition and competitor landscape, not to mention global influences. More companies than ever before...

It’s been validated over the years, Agile has revolutionized the software industry and has become synonymous with software development. Well, in the last couple of years, we have completely challenged the notion that it is...

You may have seen the news about the well-funded San Francisco startup that developed a $699 juice machine: the Juicero. The Juicero uses a pre-packed blend of fruit or vegetable pulp in a squeezable pouch...

Cprime, the largest Agile and Atlassian consulting company in the United States, announced today that it has acquired a division of Kepler, creator of JJUPIN, a popular add-on for Atlassian JIRA. As part of the...

On June 2nd, IIL is brought together the world’s foremost thought leaders and influencers - people who have not only developed, but have successfully applied Agile Project Management and Scrum methods to strategic initiatives, including...

By: Kevin Thompson, Ph.D., CSP, PMI-ACP The word most people would expect to follow “Agile” is “Software,” not “Hardware,” but we are finding that the Agile techniques pioneered in software development can work for hardware...

Agile Product Development refers to creating products with Agile processes and techniques. We refer here specifically to hardware products, software products, or any combination of the two. Yes, the two have clear distinctions, but when...

First thing\'s first, let\'s talk about Hardware vs. Software Development Software Development: Teams develop a software product for use by customers. Hardware Development: Teams develop the design for a product, to be used in manufacturing...