Agile Courses
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Instructors Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker have presented multiple workshops and courses to medical device audiences since 2009. They combine depth of experience in the Agile and engineering fields: hardware and software development, Agile coaching, regulated software for medical products, software quality, regulatory concerns, documentation, risk management.
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Intended for managers, quality, regulatory, and other roles in addition to software development, this introductory course presents the information you need in order to plan your transition to an Agile approach. Whether you are brand new to Agile, or have tried Agile and found your approach isn’t giving the hoped-for results, this course will fill in what you need to know.
Course Details
Intended for managers, quality, regulatory, and other roles in addition to software development, this introductory course presents the information you need in order to plan your transition to an Agile approach. Whether you are brand new to Agile, or have tried Agile and found your approach isn’t giving the hoped-for results, this course will fill in what you need to know. The Agile approach is well established in other industries, and adoption of Agile in medical device development has been increasing in recent years. Experience is showing that Agile teams achieve higher quality and safety than before, while still meeting regulatory requirements. By walking through a safety critical project, Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker delve into several key areas for applying Agile methods in the medical device context. |
Rather than focus on any methodology (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Crystal, XP), this course aims to build understanding of the fundamentals which underlie all Agile methods, so that teams can determine their own blend based on what works in their context, and address the issues which inevitably come up in Agile adoption. Practical illustrations will be demonstrated by use of specific tools, but the tools themselves are not the focus. Interactive exercises reinforce what you learn, as you get to know colleagues in other companies. You won’t be struggling to stay awake!
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Course Format - Full Day
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Course Fee:
$1035 per attendee - group discounts available |
Who should attend?
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Your company has accepted the concepts of Agile and you’ve started several projects which use the approach. You’re making good progress, but you want guidance on getting the most out of this new method. In particular, you’re looking for how to document your project, how to address risk management, how to coordinate hardware and software efforts, and how to work in human factors engineering (none of which classically seems to fit the Agile mindset).
Course Details
Picking up the thread from the introductory course, this session explores topics essential to any regulated medical product company applying an Agile approach for development. You’ll come away with a deep understanding of ways to avoid the false dichotomies that pit expediency against larger business needs - you’ll see how actions at the team level can improve overall flow of the work, and keep technical complexity from crippling later progress. You will also learn practical ways to address special needs of medical device work (such as documentation, risk management, hardware, or human factors...) without sacrificing any of the benefits Agile brings. Course Format - Full Day
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Each topic is reinforced through interactive exercises that all attendees can participate in, and most can be brought back to your workplace and used with the rest of your team members.
Our focus is on the core principles and practical ways to use them rather than on any one Agile methodology or framework. Our approach is compatible with Scrum, XP, and other Agile methods, and is based on experience working with a variety of medical device teams. This is an intermediate course, and makes an assumption that attendees have either attended our introductory course, or have been involved in their company’s Agile adoption program for at least six months.
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Topics Covered
Course Fee:
$1035 per attendee - group discounts available |
Who should attend?
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