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Agile development is product development that integrates:
The advantages are:
Concurrent engineering and Agile for hardware development
It is a design philosophy in which we at Agile Factory believe:
Each element of the product is developed taking into account a variety of perspectives (from functional and usability perspectives, to environmental impact perspectives, to constructability and industrialization perspectives).
To meet Concurrent engineering, the development of alternative design solutions to each other is necessary. This is possible through small-step agile development with systematically evaluated and planned increments and product changes.
The evaluation involves the customer or his representative, and business people interested in the product under development.
Pretotypes
Pretypes are forerunners of the product under development and allow even a single feature to be validated without the need for time-consuming and expensive construction of the entire product.
Pretypes are the key to validate and industrialize the product during its development
Each design solution is developed with a variety of perspectives in mind: from functional and usability perspectives, to environmental impact perspectives, to constructability and industrialization perspectives.
Agile development really makes this mode of concurrent design or concurrent engineering possible and
greatly reduces the cost of delayed product introduction into the market.
In the case of physical products or hardware, construction and validation activities need to be highly integrated and overlapping with design activities.
The goal, in Agile product development, is to develop a product from the outset that takes into account the industrialization aspects necessary for its immediate mass production.
For these reasons, any solution developed should possibly be validated, without waiting for the product to be completed. This is possible by employing accelerated construction techniques used for rapid pretype construction.
Pretypes are forerunners of the product under development and allow even a single feature to be validated without the need for time-consuming and expensive construction of the entire product.
