Apr 4, 2019What Can Development Teams Learn from Conway’s Law?In 1967, computer scientist and programmer Melvin Conway coined the adage that carries his name: “Organizations that design systems are constrained to produce designs that are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” In other words, a system will tend to reflect the structure of the organization that designed…Microservices4 min readMicroservices4 min read
Apr 2, 2019Lowering the Cost and Risk of Achieving Functional SafetyCompliance standards, especially those that involve relatively new functional safety elements, will likely add additional requirements to the development process. For example, the increasing complexity and abundance of automotive electronic systems led to the creation of a functional safety standard called ISO 26262 in 2011. And to ensure that new…Agile4 min readAgile4 min read
Mar 26, 20193 Ways Products Became More Complex in the Last Five YearsA recent study of almost 300 design and engineering professionals conducted by Engineering.com and sponsored by Jama Software showed that not only are products increasing in complexity, but that many organizations are not equipped with the right tools to manage the intricacies of complex product development. The study showed that…Design3 min readDesign3 min read
Mar 21, 2019Designing a Better Usability Engineering Plan for Medical Device Product DevelopmentMedical device product development should always start with the user in mind. This may seem intuitive, but you’d be surprised how often the user’s needs get lost in the process of developing medical devices. Approximately 400,000 hospitalized patients each year experience some type of preventable harm related to medical devices…UX4 min readUX4 min read
Mar 7, 2019[Interview] Women’s Work: Clive Thompson on the Secret History of Women in CodingIn 1953, a woman named Elsie Shutt accepted a job as a programmer at defense contractor Raytheon, where she was astonished to find that the programming workforce was about 50% women and 50% men. …Women In Tech12 min readWomen In Tech12 min read
Mar 5, 2019Report: Preventing Medical Device Recalls More Critical Than Previously ThoughtWith more public attention than ever being paid to the fast-moving, competitive, lucrative and sometimes life-altering world of medical device development, it sounds obvious to say that no company wants to experience a product recall. And yet some professors from Harvard, Indiana and Georgetown universities have put a finer business…Health Technology3 min readHealth Technology3 min read
Feb 28, 2019Systems Thinking for Complex Product DevelopmentSystems thinking is an approach to solving complex problems by breaking their complexity down into manageable units. This makes it easier to evaluate the system holistically as well as in terms of its individual components. A high-level, interconnected view of the product development process can yield new insights into how…Dev Ops4 min readDev Ops4 min read
Feb 19, 2019Agile Software Development Practices for Regulated IndustriesIn 2001, gathered together in Snowbird, Utah, a group of 17 like-minded software developers brainstormed ways to quickly build software and get it into the hands of end-users. Out of this meeting the Agile Manifesto was born. The iterative and incremental methodology of Agile has generally been accepted as a…Agile4 min readAgile4 min read
Feb 7, 2019How ReqIF Enables Better Customer and Supplier CollaborationCollaboration in product development helps improve quality, reduce risk and speed up development. For this reason, Jama Connect™ has context-based, actionable collaboration built into the platform. Reviews are a formal, effective collaboration method that guides teams in fulfilling regulatory requirements. Our customers use these capabilities to collaborate with external stakeholders…Dev Ops4 min readDev Ops4 min read
Feb 5, 2019Six Requirements Management Trends to Watch in 2019As 2019 gets further underway (it’s February already?), we’re thinking about the changes we can expect from the requirements management space this year. Last week, we wrote about the Engineering.com …Agile5 min readAgile5 min read
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