The Digital Battle — Agile Hardware Development

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There has been an incredible revolution in the software world around agile, but have those agile methodologies been taken on by the hardware people yet? And should they be taken on at all, or is it all just hype around something that isn’t really possible? On this episode, Thom Singer and Craig Brown are joined by Digital Enterprise Society Trustee, Mark Pendergast for the latest digital battle, this time taking a dive into the details of and need for agile hardware development, what role it fills, and whether it will ever catch up to agile software development</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and whether it needs to at all. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s podcast, you will learn:</span></p> <p><strong>Defining agile hardware development </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The definition could be Introducing fast, iterative cycles with the customer involved. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">This happens often for software, but rarely for hardware. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Is there any difference between this and the expensive and endless prototype cycle?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Moving material is a costly aspect of any hardware development. </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Advantages and disadvantages of agile hardware development </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Prototype cycles evolved into broken and purposeless over time. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Agile has the ability to keep hardware development on track. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The vast team requi