In dynamic business environments — especially agile product development and go-to-market contexts — clear decision-making roles are crucial. Popular frameworks like RACI…
Agile Needs a Decision AIDE — Here’s Why It Works
Joe Justice’s Agile for Hardware Vs. The MAHD Framework
In this blog, we asked ChatGPT to compare Joe Justice’s agile approach based on his experiences with Tesla vs. the MAHD Framework’s approach using this prompt:
“Compare the advantages and disadvantages of joe justice agile vs the MAHD Framework”
A MAHD Overview 4-minute Video
This 4-minute video walks you through the key elements of the MAHD Framework and how agile for hardware can deliver the benefits of Agile to hardware-based teams while also supporting SW development and integration.
Agile for Hardware Vs. Concurrent Engineering
There are a range of prominent methodologies that are vying for pre-eminence as the “best” approach to navigate the complex process of bringing innovative products to market. In this article, we’ll address two of these: Concurrent Engineering and Agile for Hardware.
Agile for Hardware Manifesto and 12 Principles
Introduction The Agile Manifesto for Software only needs minor changes to work for Hardware-based solutions. The primary differences are 1) hardware iterations cannot always “working” product to show progress and 2) while “individual” success is important in both software and
MAHD Step 9: Completing an Agile for Hardware Project
After a year of development and much learning, the JavaBrew team has completed their agile project for a new smart coffee maker. In this chapter, we review the results of their effort and conduct a post-mortem of their Modified Agile
MAHD Step 8: Preparing an Agile Project for Launch
It’s been ten weeks since the JavaBrew agile team started development on their new smart coffee maker and they are now competing sprint five. The team is nearing their product launch! Unfortunately, they have have a major design problem. It
MAHD Step 7: Completing an Agile for Hardware Iteration
It’s been ten weeks since the JavaBrew agile team started development on their new smart coffee maker and they are now competing sprint five. This also marks the completion of their first iteration — a major milestone. But the team only completed
MAHD Step 6: Completing the First Agile Sprint
After completing their MAHD On-ramp planning, in Step 6, the JavaBrew team has spent the last two weeks working on their first sprint. All is good, but the reality of execution has started to highlight some flaws in their agile
MAHD Step 4: Building the Agile Backlog
In step four, the team is now ready to develop their backlog — the prioritized list of work items that need to be done. Since the team is still engaged in On-ramp planning (and haven’t even started their first sprint),