Product Development Methods for the Agile Transformation

2020-36-0029

03/26/2021

Event
2020 SAE Brasil Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
In the recent VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world, where new trends are constantly disrupting the status quo, the agile transformation has become mandatory for companies to survive. The agile mindset provides flexibility and faster reaction time regarding uncertainty and changing market requirements, user needs and competitors solutions. Moreover, it promotes empowerment for the whole team, close collaboration with customers, faster and more accurate results. There are various methods to be applied in the agile environment, such as Scrum for example. However, for the agile transformation be successful, these methods must interact with the product development methods, so they have to transform as well. In this paper, it is presented the main methods applied during the product development phases, such as Requirements Engineering, Focus Area Matrix, FMEA and DRBFM and how they evolved to better meet the needs of the agile transformation. The role of the leadership and team is discussed as well. In the end, and example is presented to demonstrate the proposed approach on a real case application.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2020-36-0029
Pages
10
Citation
Ussui, P., "Product Development Methods for the Agile Transformation," SAE Technical Paper 2020-36-0029, 2021, https://doi.org/10.4271/2020-36-0029.
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Published
Mar 26, 2021
Product Code
2020-36-0029
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English