Introducing Safescrum

Safety-critical systems such as process control-and signal systems play a fundamental role in many important industries and aspects of society. Such systems, including software, must fulfill extreme demands for correct operation and integrity, meaning that development must follow strict standards (in our case IEC 61508), which has to be documented and evaluated by external certification bodies to receive necessary approval. We present recent industrial experience in applying the SafeScrum approach in a complex software organization.