Course Overview

This two-day course teaches you how to effectively manage requirements in agile embedded systems development. You’ll learn to bridge the gap between traditional system engineering approaches and agile software development, ensuring that hardware constraints, safety requirements, and regulatory needs are properly captured and maintained throughout iterative development cycles.

Unlike pure software projects where requirements can evolve freely, embedded systems must balance flexibility with the realities of hardware lead times, safety standards, and regulatory compliance. This course provides practical techniques for maintaining the benefits of agile requirements management while ensuring critical system properties are preserved. Through real examples from automotive, medical, and industrial domains, you’ll learn to create living documentation that satisfies both agile teams and safety assessors.

Learning Objectives

  • Bridge system engineering V-model with agile development practices
  • Create user stories that effectively capture embedded constraints
  • Specify hardware-software interfaces in agile-friendly formats
  • Maintain lightweight traceability for safety and compliance
  • Integrate regulatory requirements into sprint planning
  • Write testable acceptance criteria for embedded features
  • Manage cross-functional stakeholder expectations effectively
  • Apply reliable, future-proof release management

Topics Covered

  1. Requirements Paradigms - Bridging traditional and agile approaches
  2. User Story Patterns - Effective formats for embedded features
  3. Interface Specifications - Agile documentation for hardware-software boundaries
  4. Requirements Decomposition - Breaking systems into sprint-sized work
  5. Traceability & Compliance - Lightweight approaches for safety standards
  6. Acceptance Criteria - Defining “done” for hardware-dependent features
  7. Stakeholder Coordination - Managing cross-functional expectations
  8. Tool Integration - Connecting requirements management with agile workflows

What You Get

  • Practical techniques for agile requirements in embedded systems
  • User story templates and examples for hardware-software features
  • Interface specification patterns that work with agile
  • Lightweight traceability approaches for compliance
  • Real case studies from automotive and medical devices
  • Requirements workshop exercises
  • Certificate of completion