Barriers to Using Agile Software Development Practices within the Medical Device Industry

Martin McHugh, Fergal McCaffery, Valentine Casey

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Abstract

Non-safety critical software developers have been reaping the benefits of adopting agile practices for a number of years. However, developers of safety critical software often have concerns about adopting Agile practices. Through a literature review this research identified the perceived barriers to following agile practices when developing medical device software. A questionnaire based survey was also conducted with medical device software developers in Ireland to determine what the actual barriers are to adopting agile practices. In addition a comparison is performed between the perceived and actual barriers and the results are reported.
Original languageEnglish
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
EventEuroSPI - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 28 Jun 201228 Jun 2012

Conference

ConferenceEuroSPI
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period28/06/1228/06/12
OtherEuropean Systems and Software Process Improvement and Innovation Conference

Keywords

  • agile practices
  • safety critical software
  • medical device software
  • barriers
  • questionnaire
  • Ireland

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