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Current Challenges of Agile Hardware Development: What are Still the Pain Points Nowadays?

Part of: Innovation Engineering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

Alexander Atzberger  and
Kristin Paetzold

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Originally developed for the software industry, agile development is being applied in the hardware field nowadays as well due to its benefits when having to deal with volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions. However, certain complications arise when applying the concept of agility in the hardware. In this publication, based on the challenges identified by Ovesen in 2012, the current challenges of agile development for hardware are gathered using an embedded design approach, ensuring its actuality based on the latest surveys and empirical data. The current state regarding the challenges is displayed and its interrelations as well as their advancements compared to seven years ago is discussed. Moreover, an attempt to explain the difficulties of applying agile development is given by a hardware-related complexity model.

Keywords

Agile hardware developmentResearch methodologies and methodsDesign methodologyNew product development
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Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2019 , pp. 2209 - 2218
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