Tag Archives: incremental development

Sir! Hands On Your Head And Step Away From The RTL!

Posted on September 12, 2011 by nosnhojn

A handy bit of guidance that I’ve gleaned from books on lean product development comes via the recognition that unfinished work sitting in someone’s in queue, which in lean manufacturing lingo is called inventory, is waste in your development process. … Continue reading →

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Remote Developers And The Feature-of-the-week

Posted on June 26, 2011 by nosnhojn

In all the discussions I’ve had regarding agile and from all the presentations I’ve seen, articles I’ve read, etc, the most valuable thing I’ve heard so far has been what I’ve been calling the feature-of-the-week. The feature-of-the-week was something I … Continue reading →

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Enough Already About Collaborating With The Fab!

Posted on June 12, 2011 by nosnhojn

In the last 2+ years that I’ve dedicated to applying agile methods to hardware development, a big part of my focus has been on using agile to bring design, verification and software developers closer together. In my opinion, we have … Continue reading →

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Regular Delivery… It’s Part Of Being Agile

Posted on May 23, 2011 by nosnhojn

In a post a few weeks ago I talked about how regular delivery wasn’t actually the point of being agile in hardware development. While the software guys can deliver on a weekly or monthly basis, taping out an ASIC every … Continue reading →

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Agile Hardware Starts As A Steel Thread

Posted on May 16, 2011 by nosnhojn

For me, a key to agile is incremental development. Most software developers reading this will probably say “duh… no kidding” but it’s a new concept to hardware folks. If you’re new to agile, incremental development is something I’ve talked about … Continue reading →

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Regular Delivery Isn’t Really The Point

Posted on May 2, 2011 by nosnhojn

Living the role of agile hardware development advocate has been a learning process for me. Obviously, I’ve learned a lot in terms of agile development process but that’s not all. I’ve also had a chance to speak with people seeing … Continue reading →

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