Randy,

I don't have time at the present to completely answer your question,
however here is an abstract of what the Discovery Session was about:

Agile practices originated in companies and the minds of thought leaders
that primarily engage in enterprise software development. Consequently,
there is limited treatment or published material on how well agile
methods map to companies that deliver embedded software. Of particular
interest are companies that routinely develop hardware in parallel with
software to run on that hardware. Companies like this tend to think
their environments are distinctly different than pure software companies
and thus can be skeptical of adopting agile practices for this reason.
This session seeks to explore this topic in an informal way and will
generate a prioritized list of issues that highlight the specific areas
that make embedded software development unique and identify which agile
practices are most important in this environment.

The discussion was quite good and included James Grenning and Nancy Van
Schooenderwoert (and many other wise folks).

If you have specific questions I will try to answer sooner, otherwise I
will put it on my list to try and give more complete descriptions of the
items voted on at the meeting.


Dan Pierce
Embedded Software Development Manager
Thales Communications, Inc.
22605 Gateway Center Drive
Clarksburg, MD 20871
240-864-7673





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From: AgileEmbedded@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:AgileEmbedded@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Randy Coulman
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 1:37 PM
To: AgileEmbedded@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AgileEmbedded] Agile 2006 Discovery Session Results



On 7/28/06, Dan Pierce <dan.pierce@...
<mailto:dan.pierce%40thalescomminc.com> > wrote:
>
>
> Thanks to all who came. If you have questions, post them here for all
> to see.
>
>
For those of us who were unable to attend the session, can you give us a
little background so that we can interpret the spreadsheet? Maybe a bit
about what the numbers mean, and even a sentence or two about what the
various terms mean (the latter might be asking a lot, since there's a
number
of terms there).

Thanks,
Randy
--
Randy Coulman
rcoulman@... <mailto:rcoulman%40gmail.com>

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