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PROJECT RESULTS AGILE
(ITEA 03003)
Software development
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made more efficient Partners
Barco Avionics
E2S
Application of agile processes speeds up embedded Engisud
ESI
software development and boosts quality Exoftware
••••••••••••••••••••••••• FAGOR
Ficosa
F-Secure
last-minute changes throughout the
Hantro
product development phase.
Kapion
Agile software processes do KU Leuven
precisely that. They are change- Medius
driven, place emphasis on working Nemetschek
software and allow for increased Nokia
stakeholder interaction to minimise P4Q
communications problems. However, Philips
at the start of the project, little SQS
was known about adapting agile TCP
processes to complex systems VTT Technical Research Centre
engineering projects.
of Finland
Extensive number of trials
Agile solutions cut time to market, while improving There have been many attempts
productivity and quality Countries involved
to combine agile and embedded
software development. The AGILE Belgium
team studied the use of agile Bulgaria
The AGILE project provided methods in embedded software Finland
compelling industrial proof development in 68 industrial Ireland
that significant cost savings trials involving more than 1,800 Italy
and quality improvements are engineers in 17 European The Netherlands
possible when agile processes companies over a 2.5-year period. Slovenia
are applied. In extensive
Spain
trials with more than 1,800 Just over half the trials lasted less
engineers and managers in than six months; while 17% lasted
68 industrial pilot projects, over a year. About one third required
AGILE demonstrated up to 70% less than ten person-months of Start of the project
reductions in total R&D lead time effort, while another third consumed April 2004
and costs. This offers European between 10 and 50 person-months.
industry a significant opportunity. Evidence was also collected on
the use of agile solutions in mega- End of the project
Changing product requirements, sized projects, with 8% of trial December 2006
rapidly evolving technologies and evidence coming from projects with
time-to-market constraints are a commitment of over 500 person-
common challenges in embedded months. The project findings are
software development, yet the extremely significant as 73% of trials
sheer volume of software continues resulted in either a positive or a very
to grow rapidly. Current engineering positive outcome.
methods make it necessary to
freeze requirements, architectures Project partners reported the
and schedules in the R&D phase to following improvements:
achieve stability. This is paradoxical • Lead-time reductions up to 70%;
since embedded software markets • Total development cost
are highly volatile and often take reductions up to 70%;
unexpected turns. Clearly, new • Productivity up to eight times
approaches are needed that enable greater than the industry
incorporation of innovations and average;
ITEA 2 Office
PROJECT RESULTS Eindhoven University of
Technology Campus
Laplace Building 0.04
PO box 513
• Quality improvements 3.5-times AGILE produced 12 tools to support 5600 MB Eindhoven
better than the industry average, agile software development of The Netherlands
with an up to 99% improvement embedded systems. Four of these Tel : +31 40 247 5590
in comparison with historical tackle problems related to project Fax : +31 40 247 5595
company data; management. Email : itea2@itea2.org
• Customer satisfaction of 4.9 on Web : www.itea2.org
a scale of 5; and Three of the tools will be
• 70% developer satisfaction with commercialised in 2007 or 2008,
the agile process applied. including:
1. ATO, developed by E2S in
The results are impressive and collaboration with KU Leuven ITEA - Information Technology
motivated some of the partners and Barco Avionics, supports for European Advancement -
– such as Engisud and F-Secure – model-driven development in an is an eight-year strategic
to develop totally new production agile environment; and pan-European programme for
models for their companies to foster 2. Softfab, developed by Philips, pre-competitive research and
their agile capabilities. is a fully automated test development in embedded and
management and build tool that distributed software. Our work
Important role for tooling provides a very intuitive and has major impact on government,
A key enabler for agile development efficient interface for all the test academia and business.
was found to lie in proper tooling script execution. The tool was
for development. It is evident that tested in several companies in ITEA was established in 1999
current software development the AGILE project. as a EUREKA strategic cluster
and management tooling is not programme. We support
optimised for agile production. Even Institute to foster adoption coordinated national funding
well-known project-management AGILE project members are submissions, providing the link
tools appear to fall short as they do seeking an opportunity to establish between those who provide
not handle well the requirements of an Embedded Agile Institute in finance, technology and
two-to-six-week production cycles, Europe to foster adoption of agile software engineering. We issue
product backlog management and processes in European software- annual Calls for Projects,
extensive automation. intensive companies. As a service, evaluate projects, and help
AGILE members have launched bring research partners
According to a Gartner report, an interactive House-of-Agile web together. We are a prominent
tools that foster agile capabilities, portal (http://www.houseofagile.org) player in European software
such as closer interaction between to disseminate their results beyond development with some 10,000
software- and hardware-centred the consortium. It is a collaborative person-years of R&D invested
development teams at a much wiki-style solution that enables the in the programme so far.
earlier stage of the design process, community to update the contents.
are gaining market acceptance. ITEA-labelled projects build
This report predicts so-called Research is being continued in crucial middleware and prepare
‘electronic system level’ (ESL) the ITEA 2 FLEXI project, which is standards, laying the foundations
tools will be next big change for the developing solutions for applying for the next generation of
design-tools-automation market; agile processes in the large and products, systems, appliances
Gartner sees ESL tools having a very large embedded software and services. Our projects are
market of up to €360 million by 2008. projects. industry-driven initiatives,
involving complementary R&D
from at least two companies in
Major project outcomes two countries. Our programme
Dissemination is open to partners from large
• 112 publications: journals, conferences, PhDs, MScs, book chapters industrial companies, small and
and newsletters medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
• Three international conferences, three international workshops and as well as public research
two TV broadcasts institutes and universities.
• More than 150 invited talks, including 10 keynotes in conferences/seminars
• Agile asset box in www.houseofagile.org, including training videos in five
different languages
Exploitation
• 12 prototype tools with 3 about to be commercialised
• Four new methods Σ! 2023
• In process of setting up an Embedded Agile Institute
Standardisation October 2007
• Contributions to two standards: IEEE 1648 and DO-178C
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