Author: Nordt, A.
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THPEA034 ESS Integrated Control System Integration Support and the Agile Methodology Proposal 3219
 
  • M. Reščič
    Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • L. Fernandez, A. Nordt
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
  
  The stake­hold­ers of the ESS In­te­grated Con­trol Sys­tem (ICS) re­side in four main parts of the ESS ma­chine: ac­cel­er­a­tor, tar­get, neu­tron in­stru­ments and con­ven­tional fa­cil­i­ties. In order to main­tain and sup­port the stan­dard­ized hard­ware and soft­ware plat­forms for con­trols all of the stake­hold­ers' in­te­gra­tion re­quire­ments and ef­forts must be strictly har­mo­nized. This called for a de­ci­sion by the ICS to per­form the ma­jor­ity of the work in a pack­age ti­tled 'In­te­gra­tion Sup­port', rang­ing from FPGA code de­vel­op­ment to EPICS in­te­gra­tion. This ex­poses a high num­ber of in­ter­fac­ing sys­tems and de­vices and plan­ning of such ac­tiv­i­ties for each sys­tem make the stan­dard wa­ter­fall plan­ning model highly in­ef­fi­cient and risky. In order to prop­erly ad­dress the plan­ning risks the agile method­ol­ogy is pro­posed - from prod­uct own­ers and teams to scrums and sprints, every­thing to offer a bet­ter and more ef­fi­cient in­te­gra­tion sup­port to con­trols stake­hold­ers.