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Barriers To Using Agile Software Development Practices Within The Medical Device Industry, Martin Mchugh, Fergal Mccaffery, Valentine Casey
Barriers To Using Agile Software Development Practices Within The Medical Device Industry, Martin Mchugh, Fergal Mccaffery, Valentine Casey
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Non-safety critical software developers have been reaping the benefits of adopting agile practices for a number of years. However, developers of safety critical software often have concerns about adopting Agile practices. Through a literature review this research identified the perceived barriers to following agile practices when developing medical device software. A questionnaire based survey was also conducted with medical device software developers in Ireland to determine what the actual barriers are to adopting agile practices. In addition a comparison is performed between the perceived and actual barriers and the results are reported.
Integrating Agile Practices With A Medical Device Sdlc., Martin Mchugh, Fergal Mccaffery, Valentine Casey, Minna Pikkarainen
Integrating Agile Practices With A Medical Device Sdlc., Martin Mchugh, Fergal Mccaffery, Valentine Casey, Minna Pikkarainen
Conference papers
The rate at which agile software development practices are being adopted is growing rapidly. Agile software development practices and methodologies appear to offer the silver bullet which can solve the problems associated with following plan driven software development lifecycles. Agile software development practices offer the possibility of achieving lower development costs, increased efficiency and improved software quality. However, there is currently a low rate of publicly available information that suggests there is widespread adoption of agile practices within the medical device software domain. This is largely due to the fact that software developed for medical devices includes challenges not faced …
Barriers To Adopting Agile Practices When Developing Medical Device Software, Martin Mchugh, Fergal Mccaffery, Valentine Casey
Barriers To Adopting Agile Practices When Developing Medical Device Software, Martin Mchugh, Fergal Mccaffery, Valentine Casey
Conference papers
Agile methodologies such as XP and Scrum are founded upon the four values and twelve principles of agile software development. A software development project is only considered to be truly agile if these values and principles are followed. However, software developed for use in medical devices must be regulatory compliant and this can make the process of following a single agile methodology such as XP difficult to achieve. This paper outlines how we identified the barriers to agile adoption in the medical device software domain through performing a survey. These barriers include: lack of documentation; maintaining traceability; regulatory compliance; lack …