Course Overview

This comprehensive three-day course teaches embedded systems teams how to successfully adapt and implement agile methodologies in hardware-constrained environments. You’ll learn specialized techniques for managing the unique challenges of embedded development while maintaining agile principles and delivering value incrementally.

Unlike pure software development, embedded systems must balance agile flexibility with hardware realities: long lead times, safety requirements, and resource constraints that can’t be ignored. This course provides practical frameworks for implementing agile practices in environments where “move fast and break things” isn’t an option. Through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies, you’ll master techniques for cross-functional collaboration, continuous integration with hardware-in-the-loop, and incremental delivery in safety-critical domains.

Learning Objectives

  • Adapt Scrum and agile practices for embedded systems development
  • Manage hardware dependencies and constraints in agile workflows
  • Implement continuous integration and testing in embedded environments
  • Design incremental development strategies for hardware-software systems
  • Establish effective cross-functional collaboration between teams
  • Create testable embedded architectures that support agile development
  • Balance agile flexibility with regulatory and safety requirements
  • Scaling Agile for larger organisations

Topics Covered

  1. Agile Fundamentals for Embedded - Adapting agile principles to embedded constraints
  2. Hardware-Software Integration - Managing dependencies and parallel development
  3. Embedded Test Strategies - Unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop testing
  4. Continuous Integration for Embedded - CI/CD pipelines for embedded systems
  5. Incremental Architecture - Designing systems that support iterative development
  6. Sprint Planning for Hardware - Managing hardware lead times and dependencies
  7. Cross-Functional Teams - Effective collaboration between disciplines
  8. Agile at Scale - How to create an agile team-of-teams organisation within the embedded systems domain

What You Get

  • Practical frameworks for implementing agile in embedded environments
  • Templates for embedded-specific user stories and acceptance criteria
  • CI/CD pipeline examples for embedded systems development
  • Testing strategies and tools for embedded systems
  • Case studies from successful agile embedded transformations
  • Hardware abstraction techniques that support agile development