Vertical Slicing for Complex SaMD Development

Developing complex Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) can quickly become challenging.

Requirements, software architecture, dependencies, risk management, verification, regulatory evidence, and cross-functional collaboration all need to work together.

But what happens when individual software components appear to work correctly while the complete end-to-end workflow reveals something different?

In this episode of the Easy Medical Device Podcast, Monir El Azzouzi welcomes Shreya Sridhar from Medtronic to explore vertical slicing for complex regulated software products.

Rather than looking at a system only through individual components or technical layers, vertical slicing provides a way to examine functionality end-to-end.

In this episode, we discuss:

🔹 What vertical slicing means in practice

🔹 The challenges of developing complex SaMD

🔹 How end-to-end workflows can reveal hidden problems

🔹 How to structure vertical slices

🔹 Integrating vertical slicing into Agile development

🔹 Risk management, verification, and regulatory evidence