March 5, 2018
Implications of Agile and Scrum in Mechanical Design
Recently, many mechanical engineering teams are contemplating the adoption of agile methods for design. This post covers the implications.
Should mechanical engineering companies adopt an agile-oriented paired design approach? That question has been raised a lot lately and it’s a pertinent one, as agile has gained an enormous amount of popularity in the world of software development over the last 12 years. At first blush, the method appears a natural fit for product design. It’s used for complex projects …
July 11, 2011
Agile Development for Mechatronics Products?
“We don’t have enough engineers.” That’s was the takeaway headline, according to a Computerworld article, from Obama’s speech back in the middle of June. For anyone that’s been tracking the STEM shortfall issue, that might not come as a terrible surprise. Yet there was one other issue I came across in this summary that did surprise me. Here it is. …