Prolonged development times delay effective therapies from reaching patients in need and adversely affect industry goals of decreasing time to market.
SPL practices have been used in a wide range of organisations and domains and the use has produced significant organisational advantages such as better quality, decreased cost, decreased labour needs, decreased time to market, and ability to move into new markets faster [16].
The semiconductor industry is eager to have engineering chain management systems (ECMSs) to tightly share engineering data among cooperative semiconductor companies, such as IC Design House, Mask-Fabrication Company, Foundry-Service Company, and Assembly/Test Company, via Internet for increasing the yield, reducing production cost, and decreasing time to market for a new IC.
While some benefits of agile development, such as decreasing time-to-market, are difficult to take advantage of in a single subcontracted team, other benefits are arguable.
One way to confront the increasing complexity and decreasing time-to-market of embedded software is by means of modular and reusable code, forcing software designers to use objected oriented programming languages such as C++ [6].
Agile methods and product line engineering (PLE) have both proven successful in increasing customer satisfaction and decreasing time to market under certain conditions.
To make the leap to public markets, unicorns need to maintain a healthy growth rate while decreasing time to profitability in order to justify their pre-IPO valuation.
The increasing complexity of applications with a decreasing time-to-market requirement has created a strong interest in both high-performance and flexible embedded processors with a strong consideration for battery life.
Moreover, it will decrease the time to market of innovative products.
It can therefore be used to decrease the time to market introduction, and to lower the amount of pack tests required.
