Aoopes'11 workshop overview abstract

The objective for this workshop was to review the principles of Agile and object oriented (OO) practices as they affect the design of embedded systems. The workshop had ten attendees, and we had a wide-ranging discussion that explored, among other things: the differences and similarities between embedded systems and traditional software systems, Agile methods that are regarded as successful versus those that are not, the cultural differences between hardware and software engineers, the differences between team organizations, the influence of hardware development styles on software development for embedded systems, and the influence of systems engineering in the embedded systems world The workshop agenda started with a free-form, general discussion of the embedded systems domain. From this discussion, we identified ten topics that we felt were important influences on how Agile methodologies are practiced in the embedded world. We selected four of those topics to explore in more depth.