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Using Agile to Navigate through Medical Device Regulations When you test medical device software, you must be very careful. But when development wants to push a cadence of two weeks per sprint, every sprint, you’ve just got to keep up! Interpret the regulatory requirements not as a set of disabling constraints, but as a challenge to find the optimal route to navigate through. |
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Lower Risk of Downtime by Testing with Production Traffic Teams need a means of identifying potential bugs and security concerns prior to release—with speed and precision, and without the need to roll back or stage. By simultaneously running live user traffic against the current software version and the proposed upgrade, you can detect bugs while reducing risk and downtime. |
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How Embracing Differences Makes More Robust Agile Teams On any team, there are bound to be some differences. But even though work styles may differ from what you expect, they may not be problematic simply because they are different. Before making assumptions about what a teammate is doing or why, just ask to find out. Their differences may bring a helpful new perspective. |
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Change Is Hard, but BDD Is Worth It Behavior-driven development is a methodology change that impacts the whole team, and unfortunately, it’s not as easy as writing scenarios in a specific format. What is the added value of BDD? Why should the team throw their current process out the window and try to incorporate a new methodology? Here are some reasons. |
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