F aced with the conflicting pressures of accelerated product development and users who demand that increasingly vital systems be made ever more dependable, software development has been thrown into turmoil. Traditionalists advocate using extensive planning, codified processes, and rigorous reuse to make development an efficient and predictable activity that gradually matures toward perfection. ...

Nearly all information technology educators and practitioners are familiar with the concept of a systems development life cycle (SDLC). The SDLC model is mainly based on new software development. The stages vary based on methodology, but mostly include planning and requirements definition, analysis, design of the new system, implementation, and post-implementation support such as maintenance an...

We study in this work piloting agile practices in embedded space system development projects. The case involves three companies acting as last or next to last subcontractors in a space project. Initial interviews and a subsequent survey revealed challenges that embedded space system development poses to the agile software development. These include high specialization and emphasis on individual...