Flexible Integration in Global Product Development
The FLEXI project resulted in major improvements in productivity for embedded systems software development across large enterprises. Some 58 trials of the agile approach demonstrated concrete impacts on production innovation, reduction in lead times for new products and cutting integration time in major software development projects.
Description
The FLEXI project resulted in major improvements in productivity for embedded systems software development across large enterprises. Some 58 trials of the agile approach demonstrated concrete impacts on production innovation, reduction in lead times for new products and cutting integration time in major software development projects.
Few industrial or consumer products can now function without software. Agile offers a particularly flexible approach for embedded software by promoting development iterations throughout the project life cycle. This approach was demonstrated successfully at the team level in the earlier ITEA AGILE project, where it obtained radical improvements in productivity and time to market.
Scaling up for large organisations
FLEXI applied the agile approach to improve performance in embedded software development across large, multi-site
enterprises. Problems that had to be overcome included:
– Multi-product synchronisation and cultural variations between sites and locations in large, multi-site, distributed
development environments;
– Value-chain management in a global production landscape;
– Enabling and managing innovation;
– Tool support;
– Contracting; and
– Clashes between research and business operations.
Project details
Code: 06022 (FIT-340005-2007-37; TSI-02400-2009-66)
Research areas: Services and Software Technologies
Status: Finished.
Project leader: Juan Garbajosa Sopeña
Members: Angelina Espinoza; Pilar Rodríguez; Agustín Yagüe Panadero; David Musat; Jessica Díaz Fernández; Jenifer Pérez Benedí; Juan Garbajosa Sopeña
Start date:01-04-2007
End date: 01-12-2009
Funding: Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo. EUREKA ITEA2
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