Smart Scale Gets Smarter

SITUATION

• Internal engineering management, juggling competing development priorities, lacked the needed expertise and competencies for the smart scale development effort.
• Distributed teams across the globe, using different processes and lacking communication tools, led to false starts and project delays.
• The new product would deliver an electrophysiological signal to and from the user, making it a medical device requiring FDA approval.

Challenges

• Distributed multi-disciplinary development team (mobile app, cloud services, security, and manufacturing) operating with their own agendas and priorities led to false starts, restarts, and delays
• Selected hardware and software libraries were either documented incorrectly or completely undocumented, creating extensive trial and error feature testing
• New chipset and API lacked support from manufacturer

• Insufficient understanding of FDA regulations for medical device development

SOLUTION

• MedAcuity identified cross-team dependencies and introduced Agile SCRUM process methodology to improve efficiency and unify the various development teams
• Close collaboration with manufacturing team and manufacturer directly conveyed must-have product features and ensured they would perform as required

• MedAcuity engineers provided proven expertise in developing safe, secure, reliable software for highly regulated MedTech industry to assure new product would meet FDA regulations

Results

• Introduction of Agile Scrum process resulted in better team collaboration and a truly unified development effort that made up lost time and got the project back on track
• Accelerated time to market