The Agile Embedded Podcast Luca Ingianni, Jeff Gable

Luca and Jeff discuss an excellent book called "Team Topologies" and how, in a larger organization, there can be several different types of teams that support making products. How these teams manage their interactions can have a big impact on the organization's success. If you haven't read the book, we highly recommend it!

This is an episode for all you in the medical device industry! We are joined by Milton Yarberry, an experienced developer of medical products, to talk about how to bridge the gap between the development and regulatory teams. Milton brings a ton of practical insight on why regulatory and dev teams often find themselves at odds, as well as very actionable advice on what to do about it. Thanks Milton!

We are joined by Philip Markgraf, an experienced technical leader who has spent his career building and leading high-performing software teams in safety-critical industries. Phil teaches us about his method of creating living documentation that reduces the friction in keeping in sync with code, because it is generated from the software tests. He also shares other war stories of effecting meaningful culture change to improve the practices and performance of a development team. This episode was an eye-opener -- thanks Phil!

We are joined by Ross Dehmoobed, VP of Software and Platforms at Veranex, to discuss how his team develops complex medical device prototypes extremely quickly. Ross has a lot of experience in the trenches getting projects through the feasibility phase and has invested in tools and techniques that enable rapid progress. Thanks Ross!

What does it mean to "scale" agile? How do you make your organization responsive when it's large, because the product you're making is highly complex? We discuss the challenges that larger product-development organizations face, and strategies to mitigate them. We blew past our preparation on this episode and came up with some insights on the spot that should be valuable for you.

After many listener requests, we finally talk with an expert on model-based software development! We are joined by Max Kolesnikov, a software and controls consultant to the automotive industry, to walk us through specific tools and techniques he uses to achieve an agile workflow with a Simulink/Stateflow programming environment. Automotive industry listeners should really enjoy this one.