Hardware Development

Agile development model

might seem to cost more due to more iterations
a chip mask can cost millions of dollars, so you can have multiple projects on one mask
board level design (like we’re doing here) is much cheaper

Waterfall	Agile
Efficient if planning is done properly	Hard to plan well, so iterate quickly instead
Testing can only be at the end, so value of product is only visible at the end	Testing done many times, so value of product apparent after each iteration
May fail spectacularly on release	May fail often and early
“Make it up before you start, live with the consequences”	“Make it up as you go along”

shows the dependencies between activities
can see the critical path
can convey project progress
our project will need task parallelization between 3 team members
key words: task dependencies, project tasks, project milestones, project phases, slack time
Microsoft Project, gantt.com, table in a word processor, spreadsheet with date calculations