Why Aren’t the Requirements Done?
Writing and managing requirements for new product development is challenging and multi-faceted. Tips to help your team on the right path to good requirements.
Looking forward to presenting at MD&M with Roger Tang
The Two Mindsets of Successful Medical Device Development Modern product development teams face increasing challenges in bringing new medical devices to market: greater product complexity, tighter budgets, and more regulatory scrutiny. Agile and Lean practices, properly implemented, can enable medical device companies to accelerate product development, improve product quality, and [...]
Newsletter V. 2019 Issue 4
Medical Device Startups Startups are the heart and blood of the medical device industry. They are driving innovation and making healthcare more effective and more personalized. Because of this, startups are well positioned for an emerging ecosystem of interconnected medical technology and services. Investors see the enormous opportunities in improving [...]
How to set up a quality system for a medical startup
(or “achieving compliance without bringing everything to a crawl”) Creating a quality system is fundamental for a medical startup because 1) it’s the law, and 2) it ensures a safe, reliable product. While a good quality system encompasses best practices at a company and makes the most of each employee’s [...]
Newsletter V. 2019 Issue 3
Risk Management Risk management plays a central role in medical device development but many medical device professionals I’ve worked with over the years seem to have missed the forest for the trees. They are more focused on the details of risk management compliance than the central goal of product safety. [...]
The Big Picture for Medical Device Risk Management
Understanding all the details of risk analysis methods and compliance with the ISO 14971 risk management standard can be quite complicated but fundamentally, for development of a new medical device, risk management is about answering these seven key questions: What are all the possible things that could go wrong? What [...]
Agile Design Controls Part 3: Paperless V&V to Support Rapid Design Iterations of Medical Devices
https://vimeo.com/333499493 This webinar describes how to support rapid design iterations of medical devices while still maintaining systematic, rigorous V&V testing. Traditional approaches to V&V are often slow, inefficient, and break down with repeated testing. Learn how to configure modern SW tools to manage testing of a large number of requirements [...]
Agile Design Controls Part 3: Paperless V&V to Support Rapid Design Iterations of Medical Devices
April 30, 2019 at 9am PST (5pm CET) This webinar describes how to support rapid design iterations of medical devices while still maintaining systematic, rigorous V&V testing. Traditional approaches to V&V are often slow, inefficient, and break down with repeated testing. Learn how to configure modern SW tools to manage [...]
Embracing Change: Your Connected Medical Device is Never Finished
The proliferation of software in modern medical devices has enabled innovative new applications and many benefits to patients. However, it has also created greater challenges for medical device companies: namely, managing greater product complexity and more reliance on third party software components. For connected devices there are the added challenges [...]
Agile Design Controls: How to Support Rapid Design Iterations for SW-Intensive Medical Devices
How to examples using Matrix ALM and JIRA Traditional methods for medical device development cannot keep up with the challenges of modern, software-intensive medical devices, which need to be developed iteratively and to be regularly updated after launch. Software tools for requirements management, test management, and defect tracking allow product [...]