Agile and Lean Development for Hardware
Contents
Overview
1 day
This practical, information-packed seminar summarizes practices, organizational design ideas, and experiences related to applying agile and lean principles and practices in hardware or hardware and embedded software development, including related FPGAs. It primarily draws on experience from PCB development done with elements of Scrum, agile principlies practices, Kanban method, and lean principles and practices.
Methods of Education
Discussion, presentation, Q&A.
Audience
Managers and hands-on engineers in the development of hardware (PCBs, ...), FPGAs, board-level software, and drivers.
Level
Introductory: This course introduces concepts and techniques that the attendee will not apply during the session.
Prerequisites
course Agile, Lean, and Iterative Development: Management Overview or equivalent
Participants must read (available online), before the course:
- The Scrum Guide
- Scrum Primer or from Chapter 12 of Scaling Lean & Agile Development
- Feature Teams or the equivalent chapter Feature Teams in Scaling Lean & Agile Development
And these chapters, available in paper print or online at Safari. These following chapters are from Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Scrum (Larman & Vodde).
- Chapter 2: Systems Thinking
- Chapter 4: Queuing Theory
- Chapter 8: Teams
NOTE! Your company may have an online Safari account that you can use to read the book chapters online free. Please ask your colleagues if you have a Safari account.
Objectives
- Introduce Agile Methods and Lean Principles
- Analyze outcomes of projects that have used Agile Methods
- Convey the key principles in the new software development game
Outline
- Compelling evidence that agile and iterative methods reduce risk and increase ROI
- Frequent misconceptions
- Frequently asked questions
- Agile values and practices
- Scrum: the most widely used agile method
- Increasing alignment between R&D and customer; increasing value with Scrum
- From command-and-control management to servant-leadership
- Value-driven and feature-driven adaptive iterative development
- Increasing transparency and predictability with agile methods
- Lean Thinking in agile methods
- Short cycle time, small batches, low WIP
- Relentless improvement in Scrum
- Leading the transformation: adoption and rollout
- New management roles and skills in Scrum
- Organizational and team structure changes
- Agile product management and changes in planning
- Scaling agile methods for large, offshore, or multi-site system
- Estimation, scheduling, and fixed-price contracts
- Creating a deep learning culture through Scrum
- Scrum and CMMi
Maximum Participants
35
Environment - Room, Tools, Texts
Read this: Course Environment - Presentation Oriented