[SystemSafety] Agile methods

[René Senden]

I appreciate your input, however, my question addresses a specific situation
that some of you may have encountered in practice


It is such practical experience I am interested in


Let me rephrase
 I was not very clear/accurate in describing my query


Have you encountered a situation, in industrial practice, in which an
organization developing software following an agile methodology 

has to comply with a safety standard which has specific requirements on the
software development process? A typical example of

such safety standard, with respect to its requirements on the sw-dev, would
be IEC-61508 Part 3 or DO-178


 

Rene

 

From: Nancy Leveson [mailto:leveson.nancy8 at gmail.com] 
Sent: vrijdag 30 augustus 2013 19:14
To: René Senden
Cc: systemsafety at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Subject: Re: [SystemSafety] Agile methods

 

Definitions always differ among the users of terms. But if the Agile methods
being considered do not start with a complete and thorough specification of
all the system/software safety requirements before anything else, then the
system resulting system/software design will almost surely be less safe than
one that does. Whether it coincides with other standards (most of which are
very deficient with respect to safety) is not really important, is it?

 

Nancy

 

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:02 PM, René Senden <rene.senden at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

Do any of you have practical experience with reconciling established agile
software development with software safety requirements (e.g. IEC-61508 or
DO-178..) ?

Best regards,
Rene

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