It may be challenging for hardware development teams to comprehend the advantages of using Agile techniques all at once. Agile software development teams have identified various advantages over more traditional methods such as waterfall and stage-gate development. Auxilium consultants created the modified agile for hardware development (MAHD) framework to provide the same benefits of Agile to hardware teams as they do to software teams. Because of its flexibility and adaptability, the MAHD framework may be used for projects requiring small cross-functional teams as well as large systems, including mechanical, electrical, software, and other disciplines.
The Benefits of MAHD
In many ways, modified Agile for Hardware Development outperforms traditional methods. The first is that MAHD significantly reduces the time necessary to go from the concept to the design stage. MAHD then encourages greater collaboration inside teams as well as among team members. MAHD also emphasizes the significance of concentrating on product attributes that will decide whether a product succeeds or fails on the market. Teams may perform more successfully because of the program’s quick learning cycles by controlling scope, resources, and timeline throughout development while being honest about their deliverables, drawbacks, and requirements.
In partnership with industry professionals, Auxilium upgraded the MAHD Framework for usage by hardware development teams. If you wish to learn more about how to use MAHD in your company, please get in touch with us.
What Makes MAHD Unique?
Despite the fact that the MAHD Framework is built on Agile principles, the approaches must be modified to fit the unique and frequently constrained restrictions of hardware development. The MAHD Framework considers the material product requirements to:
- Define the mechanical and electrical qualities.
- Allow for design freezes while maintaining flexibility.
- Check that you have a flexible prototyping and validation strategy in place.
- Take into account lag durations and crucial dependencies.
- Make use of collaborative efforts and other resources.
- Manage supply chains, keep data up to date, and develop quality plans.
Implementation of MAHD
We may supply light help for new businesses and small teams to aid with Agile transformations throughout a large organization, depending on your implementation goals and timeframe. A typical assistance program seeks to improve the effectiveness of MAHD in at least one pilot project. Our five-iteration technique may be adapted to your needs and builds on prior iterations’ strengths:
- Make a future strategy once you’ve examined your current situation.
- “Learn & Practice” is a series of two-hour online classes based on the “Learn by Doing” Approach.
- Recruiting Team Leaders to Take Part in a Pilot Program
- Using Facilitated Retrospectives to Achieve Continuous Change and Improvement
- Future Pilots, MAHD Certifications, and Full Deployment Planning: Institutionalization and Growth
MAHD Derived From Auxilium
Auxilium boosts the productivity of your research and development, marketing, and leadership teams by providing them with better tools, methods, procedures, and capabilities. Since 2002, we have helped hundreds of teams while also supporting corporations with process development, project management, and change management.
The Auxilium team is made up of individuals with years of relevant experience, including positions of leadership in large businesses. Since we know what works and what doesn’t, we combine tried-and-true tactics with new ideas to produce programs that have a significant impact.
We also learned early on that using agile techniques offered significant advantages over more traditional methods. The modified agile for hardware development framework project was created to help companies incorporate agile concepts into their current new product development (NPD) processes and to enable hardware-based teams to benefit from agile.
Over the last two decades, thousands of projects have been developed using this framework, allowing hundreds of firms to accelerate the development-to-distribution process, and we look forward to showing you how our method may benefit you!
