What’s your experience of using Agile in a safety-related environment?
Agile as a methodology holds a great deal of promise; iterative development and the delivery of software to customers and stakeholders enables fast feedback and improvement which ultimately results in a better product. But there’s often hesitancy in safety-related domains to pick up new methodologies. This is particularly where these methodologies aren’t necessarily endorsed by safety standards or regulatory organisations. Nonetheless, as software engineers, project managers and other communities of practitioners become used to working with Agile, it’s clear that the safety domain will also need to adapt its ways of working. The IET’s Engineering Safety Policy Panel has produced a short flyer highlighting some of the key concepts and questions around Agile ( www.theiet.org/Agile ). The…
