Eclipse Duttile looks at the world of the Internet of Things in a holistic manner, suggesting an approach in which the various elements are part of a single integrated process. It proposes a new cross-domain methodology that aims to provide adequate tools for the governance of the IoT projects, building the experience gained until now, in a jointly and reasoned way. The core approaches became from the world of software and hardware development, both different but always complementary.
Eclipse Duttile defines a rich process to create solutions bound to the Internet of Things world, with an emphasis on end-to-end solutions and their Value. In particular, the creation of a specific solution comes through three different well-defined steps:
- Prototype Phase: it’s the first phase of the process. There’s the Vision definition, Fast Prototypization and Product Backlog definition using a specific planning phase;
- Engineering Phase: in this step, the solution is engineerized and developed. It’s, as one could deduct, of the most important and complex phase of the whole process;
- Workout Phase: it’s the last phase, focalized onto the Deployment, support and the continuous improvement of the product.
The intrinsic complexity assigns an important role to the Solution Definition of Done (sDoD): it is the way to explicitly define WHEN the various Ceremonies and Artifacts of Duttile can be marked as “completed”.
The intrinsic complexity assigns an important role to the Solution Definition of Done (sDoD): it is the way to explicitly define WHEN the various Ceremonies and Artifacts of Duttile can be marked as “completed”.
Every phase has its own specific goals:
Over the goals of the individual steps, that we are going to find out soon, Eclipse Duttile has several business objectives of growth and management, defined Cross Phases Goal:
- Team Improvement, Agile IoT Team operates in such a way to improve itself constantly, both from a technical and methodological point of view;
- Company Improvement, the development of the solution should bring to the company an enrichment of know-how in combination with the improvement of internal processes;
- Company Agility, business processes must become flexible and break down bureaucracy barriers;
- Buffer Budget, the importance of identifying all stages, especially on the hardware, leading to the need for a budget for the "daily expenses". Consider buying a small resistor to the EVK (Evaluation Kit) for the cost of a few euros: for this activity, it is unthinkable that we should complex procurement processes that lead to weeks of waiting.