Thesis chapter 12.1.2: Research answer 1.1

RQ1.1 is answered in chapter 8, which explores agile development for individual teams as a way-of working in the context of large MPES projects. Chapter 8 prescribes a set of 19 measures , and are based on a model  over the critical interactions a team doing agile software development has to the rest of the project organisation.
Each measure is either a prerequisite for agile development, e.g. must be defined in the pre-game phase of Scrum, or an activity while doing the iterations, e.g. in the game phase of Scrum.

• Requirements The requirements measures encompasses how the software requirements implemented by the agile team relate to the requirements of the finished product, they typically contain both functional requirements experienced by the end-user, but also quality attributes, such as testability. The model also includes the methods and tools for capturing and transferring requirements in this category.
• Project gates The project gate measures focuses on the interface between the software development team and the full product project. This includes the static organisation of the project including governance and reporting, as well as basic principles for driving and measuring progress.
• Validation Validation measures are concerned with the interface between agile software development and the validation of the product as a whole. The category includes activities necessary to integrate the various software and hardware parts to a whole, how this whole is verified against the requirements and the validation of the full product.
• Software delivery The delivery category describes the principles for how the finished software is delivered to the end-user. In mass-produced embedded systems the software and the hardware is delivered as a single product and this is the only possibility if the software is stored in ROM. The business model is similar in this approach as in the common practice of Rorqual organisations, and hence this interaction category is not explored.
• Internal practices These are the measures that have no direct relationship to other software development teams or the rest of the organisation, and are thus up to the agile teams. However, in our experience, these are important for successful implementation of agile development in the context of mass-produced embedded systems.

There are two contribution: first, a model for the interactions between individual development teams and the organisation as a whole, focusing on the exchange of artefacts. The model supported analysis of three separate cases of where teams did agile development in an industrial context. Second, based on the model a set of prescriptive measures supporting the teams adopting agile development methods were defined.