When Worlds Collide: Agile Development Meets Hardware Engineering
Markets don't wait. Customer expectations are rising, competition is fierce, and the pressure to deliver innovative products faster has never been greater — whether you're building software or physical systems.
Hardware development teams face unique challenges: long lead times, costly change, compliance requirements, and the need for extensive verification and validation before anything ships. Yet the pressure to deliver faster and with higher quality has never been greater.
In this session, SAFe Fellow and Methodologist Harry Koehnemann draws on twenty-five years of experience working with aerospace, defence, automotive, and other hardware-intensive organisations to explore how Lean-Agile values and principles can be adapted — not abandoned — for hardware development.
You'll hear real stories of challenge and success, and leave with practical ideas for bridging the gap between agile teams and the engineers building the physical world.