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Research Article, J Comput Eng Inf Technol Vol: 4 Issue: 5

Adopting Agile Practices when Developing Medical Device Software

McHugh M1*, McCaffery F2 and Coady G3
1School of Computing, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
2Regulated Software Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
3BlueBridge Technologies, 3015 Lake Dr, Citywest, Dublin, Ireland
Corresponding author : Martin Mc Hugh
School of Computing, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Tel: + 353 86 1975129, + 353 1 4022808
E-mail: Martin.mchugh@dit.ie, fergal.mccaffery@dkit.ie, garretcoady@bluebridgetech.com
Received: July 09, 2015 Accepted: August 07, 2015 Published: August 14, 2015
Citation: McHugh M, McCaffery F, Coady G (2015) Adopting Agile Practices when Developing Medical Device Software. J Comput Eng Inf Technol 4:2. doi:10.4172/2324-9307.1000131

Abstract

Adopting Agile Practices when Developing Medical Device Software

Agile methods are gaining momentum amongst the developers of non-safety critical software. They offer the ability to improve development time, increase quality and reduce development costs. Despite this, the rate of adoption of agile methods within safety critical domains remains low. On face value agile methods appear to be contradictory to regulatory requirements. However while they may appear contradictory, they align on key values such as the development of the highest quality software. To demonstrate that agile methods could in fact be adopted when developing regulatory compliant software they were implemented on a medical device software development project.

Keywords: Agile; Scrum; Medical; Regulated; FDA; Software; MDD

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