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Agile development

Dr Stuart Grant, founder of Archetype MedTech

Stuart Grant

26 September, 2024

Founder and Principal Consultant of Archetype Medtech

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Is the waterfall framework outdated

Is the FDA’s waterfall framework for design control outdated for medtech development?

26 September, 2024

The Federal Drug Agency’s 1997 design control guidance – built on a traditional waterfall framework – is increasingly misaligned with the dynamic landscape of medical

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Abstract

Agile R&D Unit Organisation or ARDO can improve NPD success in turbulent times

27 August, 2024

Agile can be defined as a capability – a rapid response to turbulent markets, changing business requirements and advances in technology. Although more widely discussed

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microscope

Contextual Specificity in R&D Management – an interview with Jeremy Klein

31 January, 2022

Managing pharmaceutical drug development is a world apart from managing software development. The timescales are different, the costs are different and the people are different

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Rapid prototyping

Which projects are most suited to an Agile approach?

17 November, 2021

A survey of companies attending STIM events through 2019 and 2020 showed that there is growing interest in the application of Agile project management processes.

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Beyond Stage-Gate Dr Robert G Cooper

Accelerating new product development

17 November, 2021

“Now is the time to re-think the firm’s innovation process and methods,” argues Robert G.Cooper, best known for the development of StageGate, a new product

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What is agile? flexible organisations

Penetrating the fog of Agile

17 November, 2021

I was recently asked to review an innovation project developing new sustainable products. Sustainability is usually a good topic for sparking heated debates, but on

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Agile New Product Development in Not-Purely Software Projects

Agile practices in the development of physical products: buzzword or opportunity?

5 May, 2021

Agile practices originated in the software domain but are increasingly applied to the development of physical products. A multiple case-study involving 17 manufacturing companies from

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Hourglass - time in R&D

The Cost of Time in R&D projects

5 February, 2019

Rick Mitchell explains how to estimate in financial terms the impact of delay to an R&D project – a vital input when deciding what actions

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Agile project management

Can Agile be used for hardware development?

12 December, 2018

Can Agile project management methods – widely used in software – be applied in projects involving hardware? Rick Mitchell considers the question.

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The Pentathlon Framework – People & Organisations

14 November, 2017
There are many theories over how this may be achieved and we outline some of the most interesting ideas. Organisational structures - aligning to markets
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Agile project management in R&D

Agile project management in R&D

31 August, 2016

In the Agile approach a team works together in a scrum sharing tasks in an informal way to deliver a defined output in a relatively

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