ALDES - Agile and Lean Development of Embedded Systems

FiSMA is one party in the international consortium for the ALDES project. For applying funding the project plan was submitted in mid-September for EU’s ECSEL program and for Tekes as well. The fundamental idea of ALDES is to tackle the challenges on ever increasing complexity and diversity of safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS) by developing Agile and Lean product development practices for European CPS industry. Agile and Lean methods are utilised on several domains and their positive impact on product development efficiency has been widely recognised. ALDES brings these methods into development of complex safety-critical CPSs. ALDES consortium consists of 45 organisations from 12 European countries enabling broad applicability and extensive collaboration on developing common practices related research, development and innovation (R&D&I).

The main objectives of ALDES are:

• Development of Agile and Lean methods for CPS industry
• Development of practices to handle safety-critical requirements in Agile and Lean processes
• Development of practices for smooth and efficient collaboration of remote stakeholders
• Dissemination and exploitation of the results extensively among the European CPS industry

Commercial advantages to be achieved include:

• Better products with decreased time-to-market
• More frequent deliveries and reduced failure demand
• New markets and
• Decreased development and certification costs.