Agile practices in the development of physical products: buzzword or opportunity?
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 a variety of industries was conducted to understand how agile is currently applied in...
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The Cost of Time in R&D projects
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 are worth taking.
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Can Agile be used for hardware development?
Can Agile project management methods - widely used in software - be applied in projects involving hardware? Rick Mitchell considers the question.
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Agile project management in R&D
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 short time a sprint.
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