Protecting IP in an Agile Software Development Environment
This is an excerpt from an article by Christopher George and myself appearing in the American Bar Association IP Section's Landslide magazine (July/Aug. 2015) pp. 34-41. Follow Link for Full Article! Introduction Over the last decade, there has been a movement among the software developer community to employ some form of “agile development” rather than the traditional software development methodology. The belief is that these agile methodologies lead to higher quality software and faster development cycles. More recently, the implementation of agile software development has transitioned not only from small startups to large companies, but also from enterprises developing noncritical, consumer apps to those developing software for medical, aviation, military, and financial systems, where the presence of errors pose high human or economic risk. With these transitions, intellectual property (IP) law practitioners must adopt their traditional lawy...