What is EchoScrum®? 

• EchoScrum® binds feature development and safety development
• There is an Echo after each Call! Functional safety activities respond to a developed feature
• The EchoScrum® team has the competences for feature development and safety development and is accountable for all sprints
• Call and the Echo have the same duration (2 weeks)
• There is one backlog only
• Consistency checks are performed at the end of each increment, so that compliance can be ensured

The EchoScrum® building pillars 

• Psychological needs of the team and team members
• The basic principles of ISO26262 and functional safety
• The need for fast iterations and shippable increments

Main safety benefits of EchoScrum®

EchoSCRUM® will not only render the specific SCRUM advantages like higher development and speed, but also achieve the following SAFETY objectives: 

• Systematization of development processes
• Chain of evidences for certification created “on the fly”
• Improvement of product safety through safety analyses iterations