Do you need a plan? [Agile electronic design]
B. McCluskey · Engineering & Technology · 2016
Agile has proved so successful that it has not only found favour among vast swathes of the developer community but has also been appropriated, and misunderstood, by management consultants and corporate senior management in multiple sectors - a sure-fire sign of any concept's acceptance into the mainstream. Now, hardware engineers and product designers working with physical goods are looking at how they can adopt agile practices. Even teams working on safety-critical systems have embraced elements of agile development. The paper discusses that tο come up with product designs more quickly and deal with rapid changes in needs, hardware designers are taking a leaf out of the software development 'Agile' manual.