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 |
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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.