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The Agile Software Development for Healthcare summit, organised this Autumn in Berlin by Pharma IQ, hopes to repeat the success of the Software Design for Medical Devices events that took place in the United States in the past few years. The aim of the conference is to “create a valuable platform for knowledge and experience sharing with an integrated mix of theoretical and case study driven presentations”. The organisers prepared a lot of research and downloadable materials that you might find interesting, even if you don’t plan on participating in the conference.
The materials which you can access on the summit’s web page contain:
The Agile Software Development for Healthcare summit, organised this Autumn in Berlin by Pharma IQ, hopes to repeat the success of the Software Design for Medical Devices events that took place in the United States in the past few years. The aim of the conference is to “create a valuable platform for knowledge and experience sharing with an integrated mix of theoretical and case study driven presentations”. The organisers prepared a lot of research and downloadable materials that you might find interesting, even if you don’t plan on participating in the conference.
The materials which you can access on the summit’s web page contain:
- the Agile Software Info Pack, a document which “(..) summarizes the key issues related to new agile development in healthcare, changes in clinical evaluations for medical devices and tips on the agile techniques for a project and address the regulatory challenges of developing a medical device.”
- “What Agile Software Development Learned from Deming”, an article prepared for Pharma IQ by the contributors from W. Edwards Deming Institute. It explains how the roots of modern agile approach can be seen in Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s management and quality work of the 1980's.
- “Conception to Completion: Why Agile Development for Healthcare”, a two part podcast series in which Brian Shoemaker of Shoebar Associates and Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, a Consultant at Lean Agile Partners “(...) discuss the main reasons for changing the approach to software development, give best practice tips on the agile techniques for a project and address the regulatory challenges of developing a medical device with respect to software development pitfalls encountered.“
- Agile Software Development in a Medical Device Context, an audio interview with Michael Meissner, the VP Software R&D and Program Manager at Omnyx LLC, in which he talks about possible downstream effects of Agile adoption. You can find more details about this interview in this press release.
