Papers & Presentations
A comprehensive collection of insights, methodologies, and findings from our extensive engagements in Agile hardware and software development.
The Agile Hardware Research Project
This presentation lays out the findings from Dr. Thompson’s original research into the nature of Agile hardware development. It provided the foundation for all subsequent work he has done in this area.
Agile for Hardware: A Briefing to Gartner, Inc.
Gartner is a highly respected research and advisory company focusing on business and technology topics. This briefing that Dr. Thompson delivered to Gartner expresses the basic drivers and challenges of implementing hardware products with Agile processes.
Scrum for Hardware Conference Keynote
The Scrum4HW conference was held under the auspices of the Scrum Alliance, to explore the possibility of using Scrum for hardware development. Dr. Thompson was contacted and asked to deliver a keynote presentation due to the article in AgileVox magazine about his introduction of Scrum for hardware development at Thermo Fisher Scientific. This presentation is the one that he delivered to the conference.