Q-Scrum: A Framework for Quality in Safety-Critical Development

This paper describes an adapted Scrum framework applied to a successful academic experience, using Interdisciplinary Problem Based Learning (IPBL) to conceptualize, model, and develop safety-critical prototypes. It presents an adapted version of the Scrum agile method used to develop a safety-critical project, achieving compliance with software standards. It also reports the development of some academic projects using IPBL and involving students from four different courses yearly offered by the Aeronautics Institute of Technology. At the end of each year, a prototype was developed and presented by the students.