Hardware-Software Co-Development with Tobias Kästner

About this episode

Tobias Kästner discusses his transition from slow hardware-software integration to agile hardware sprints in medical device development.

We talk with Tobias Kästner, a physicist-turned-software-architect and technical consultant at Inovex, about his journey from painfully slow hardware-software integration cycles to achieving three-week hardware sprints. Tobias shares hard-won lessons from medical device development, where fuzzy requirements and constant feedback from life scientists forced his team to rethink traditional approaches.

People in this episode

Hosts: Luca Ingianni, Jeff Gable

Guest: Tobias Kästner

Topics covered

• hardware-software integration
• medical device development
• agile methodologies
• technical consulting
• software architecture

Keywords

• hardware-software co-development
• agile sprints
• medical devices
• software architecture
• technical consulting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Inovex

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