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    The Agile Embedded Podcast

    Learn how to get your device to market faster AND with higher quality. Join Luca Ingianni and Jeff Gable as they discuss how agile methodologies apply to embedded systems development, with a particular focus on safety-critical industries such as medical devices.

    Articles

    I'm on a mission to help medical device companies successfully develop and release incredible products. My focus is using, teaching, and evangelizing modern software development practices.

    If you aren't satisfied with the way your organization develops software for your medical device, and feel like there must be a better way, you're right.

    Fixed-cadence sprints might be for hardware too
    Dec 21st, 2020
    Agile Design Inputs
    Dec 18th, 2020
    Pandora's box: Small additions in device functionality that drive big development costs
    Dec 16th, 2020
    Software V&V survey is live
    May 29th, 2020
    Agile with a Capital A
    Apr 28th, 2020
    Software Verification in the Real World
    Apr 21st, 2020
    Connascence: a metric for code coupling
    Apr 20th, 2020
    TDD enforces good code architecture
    Apr 17th, 2020
    Why test-driven development works
    Apr 16th, 2020
    What is the goal of testing software?
    Mar 26th, 2020
    I'm still figuring this one out
    Mar 25th, 2020
    How I classify software bugs
    Mar 23rd, 2020
    How you can learn Test-Driven Development
    Mar 19th, 2020
    Test-Driven Development makes remote work easier
    Mar 18th, 2020
    Verification and Validation are different things
    Mar 12th, 2020
    Actually, the FDA DOES encourage modern SW development practices
    Mar 11th, 2020
    Does the FDA discourage modern software development practices?
    Mar 2nd, 2020
    Automated Verification of Med Devices? Impractical!
    Feb 21st, 2020
    Prerequisites for Continuous Integration
    Feb 20th, 2020
    Repeatable build (and development) environments with Vagrant
    Feb 19th, 2020
    Build machines can suck (sometimes)
    Feb 18th, 2020
    The downsides of automated testing
    Feb 17th, 2020
    If you're just testing manually, you're not really testing
    Feb 12th, 2020
    How can we develop quickly AND safely?
    Feb 10th, 2020
    It's all about risk
    Feb 7th, 2020
    FPGA under 62304? It's cheaper!
    Feb 5th, 2020
    Does FPGA code count as software?
    Feb 4th, 2020
    What is IEC 62304 anyway?
    Feb 3rd, 2020
    How to make existing software IEC 62304 compliant
    Jan 29th, 2020
    Can you make my software 62304 compliant?
    Jan 28th, 2020
    Why follow standards?
    Jan 24th, 2020
    Regulations, Guidances, and Standards for Medical Device software development
    Jan 22nd, 2020
    The Three Components of the Safety-Critical Mindset
    Jan 21st, 2020
    What it takes to develop medical device software
    Jan 17th, 2020
    Now Publishing Daily
    Jan 15th, 2020