Atomic Spin :: Elements of Software

Our interest in applying Agile practices to embedded software began in earnest about a year and a half ago. (You can read about our continuing adventures on our Embedded Software page and at this blog’s Embedded Corner.) After several projects under our collective belt, we’re now at the point of working on a very large and complex embedded project with X-Rite, one of our longtime clients. So far things are going quite well. For this project we’ve been using good Agile-style planning and tools like burndown charts. And, we’ve been learning some important things about successfully using Agile planning in embedded projects.

Greg and I are working at X-Rite these days on an extended assignment. We’re part of a team developing a new color measurement device. It’s a complicated embedded system and the first large-scale implementation of our Agile and TDD approaches to embedded system development (incidentally, thanks, X-Rite, for your faith in us). One of our team members, Mark, has some familiarity with the D programming language. I’ve heard of it. It’s been in development for quite some time. Version 1.0 was just released in January of 2007. Because of Mark I just checked it out. It’s nice.