Agile, Safety and Innovation – synergies and tensions when best practices meet in the development of software intensive systems
The interest for Agile development approaches has increased remarkably
within industrial product development. Stemming originally from smaller scale
software engineering, the approach has been adopted to larger scale development
often involving software as well as hardware, frequently in conjunction with strict
demands on quality and related non-functional aspects such as safety.
While the introduction of Agile is motivated by its perceived benefits,
the use of Agile outside of the domain of software development has also raised
a number of concerns. The idea for this workshop came about when we noticed
studies and concerns being raised in a number of areas including integrated
products (HW/SW), safety related systems, and innovation driven products. Many
industrial companies are facing a similar situation. Some research studies have
also investigated some of the concerns and approaches for combining Agile with
other established processes.
The purpose of the workshop is consequently to highlight and discuss the
identified concerns, tensions and ideas for how various best practices can be
merged to form improved development processes. Given the ICES tradition of such
networking events, we see strong potential for synergies and collaborative
efforts to explore these synergies further.
The workshop is divided in two parts:
- The morning
offers inspirational talks with experiences and considerations for applying
agile, tensions and potential synergies, with industrial and research
contributions.
- The afternoon is
dedicated to a real workshop (using the so called World Cafe approach), where
we will split into smaller work groups to discuss topics related to the
workshop theme. Each group has a moderator and will report back to a plenary
conclusion.
Program:
09:30-09:40: Introduction – Martin
Törngren/Jaana Nyfjord/Jakob Axelsson
09:40-10:05: Agile and software development methods – State of the art,
Jaana Nyfjord, SICS
10:05-10:45: Heaven or Hell - The marriage between IEC 61508 and Scrum -
Tor Stålhane NTNU/SINTEF and Even-Andre Karlsson, Addalot
Coffee with refreshments
11:15-11:40: Development of Mechatronical products – what characterizes
a useful development process? – Tor Ericsson/ÅF
11:40-12:05 Industrial Experience on Efficient Product Development - Dulce Goncalves/Combitech
12:05-12:30: Agile and Innovation – Jens
Hemphälä
Conclusions and Discussion topics for the afternoon – Martin Törngren
LUNCH
- 12:35-13:30
13:30-13:40: Deciding on discussion topics and forming work groups
13:40-16:10: Group discussions – including rotation and coffee (e.g.
giving room for three groups, 3*45 min.)
16:10-16:55 Debriefs/reporting from group discussions
17:00 The workshop is concluded