Agile practices have empirically shown to increase adaptability, reduce lead times, reduce cost, increase quality, and increase employee morale for small software application teams. Scaled Agile expanded these benefits beyond teams to release trains and solution trains with thousands of people.
Robin leverages her 26 years of experience building safety-critical cyber-physical systems from submarines to satellites at Lockheed Martin as a senior technical fellow to explain why there is a need to expand these benefits to large-scale, safety-critical cyber-physical systems with hardware, firmware, and software.
We understand that there is a hesitation in highly regulated environments such as Aerospace, Automotive, Medical, and Energy due to concern that Agile practices conflict with safety regulations. Space is one of the most regulated environments that exist. Robin will present an analysis of NASA Technical Standards based on key inclusion and exclusion criteria to dispel myths that Scaled Agile practices have any conflict with safety regulations in Space.
Robin will present evidence of the principles and practices that increase safety, security, reliability, and availability in large cyber-physical systems. Her results will demonstrate that there is a mission imperative to migrate from a phase gate approach to Scaled Agile to increase safety for stakeholders. In addition, the results from transitioning Orbitfab to from Waterfall to SAFe, a company who are building gas stations in space. These fueling stations are cyber-physical systems that comply with NASA space standards.
The bodies of knowledge that inform this presentation are Scaled Agile, DevOps, Lean, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Digital Engineering, and Additive Manufacturing.
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About Robyn Yeman
Expertise spanning over twenty-five years in software engineering with focus on Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile building large complex solutions across multiple domains from submarines to satellites. She advocates for continuous learning with multiple certifications including SAFe Fellow, SPCT, CEC, PMP, PMI-ACP, and CSEP. She is a Systems Engineering PhD candidate at Colorado State researching best practices to deliver complex safety critical solutions using Agile and DevSecOps.
She provides mentoring, guidance, coaching support, and conducts training classes for engineering and management teams and customers on Digital Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile tools, process, and methodologies. She has also led several efforts in Agile program execution and continues to lend her expertise on the development of Safety Critical Systems using Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile techniques and processes on management, schedule, cost, and technical performance.
Robyn concluded by highlighting the potential of Agile in building advanced systems like gas stations in space, and shared that she continues to work with Orbit Fab and other companies to further refine these practices.
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