Agile Software Development is not just for software, because software development is usually not only about software engineering. Embedded software teams have long had to work different engineering disciplines within the context of a system development model. And now, traditional “software-only” applications like internal IT systems, banking systems, retail software, etc., are big systems that need more than software engineering, they also need concepts and methods of systems engineering. The Agile community recognizes this, and one of the popular Agile scaling frameworks, “SAFe”, created by Scaled Agile Inc., embraced systems engineering concepts in their recent update to “SAFe 4.0 for Lean Software and Systems Engineering”. Long-established Systems Engineering process models, such as those developed by INCOSE and NASA, can be applied within the context of a scaled Agile development framework, getting the benefits from a robust process model and the benefits of Agility. This session will explore this combination. As usual for TwinSPIN, this session counts on interaction with the audience, so please come ready to think about your software/systems development context and ask questions and offer insights into how Agile & Systems Engineering applies, or could apply, to you.
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