Making Agile Work in Highly Regulated Environments

Highly regulated industries (avionics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals) must meet rigorous quality standards to ensure their products are not a danger to the general public. Although compliance has traditionally been achieved with heavyweight waterfall or V-model development methodologies, you'll hear specific recommendations on how to implement agile-or lean-agile-development practices that adhere to standards-based regulations while reducing the risk and improving software quality and reliability. Specific examples will be reviewed from the commercial avionics standard DO-178B and FDA CDRH software validation guidelines.

Speaker: Colin Doyle, Product Manager

Original Airing Date: April 14, 2010