Abstract
With Automotive SPICE® PAM v4.0 [1], the assessment effort increases compared to the previous versions. In addition, many customers require more than one assessment per individual project - and each assessment is supposed to evaluate the entire product. This contradicts the approach of many automotive suppliers to develop diverse platforms and thus reduce the workload of individual development teams [12]. Based on the experience gained during more than 100 Automotive SPICE® assessments, intention is to present an approach to reunite the controversial points of view in a meaningful way. After defining the platforms where this approach is applicable, it will be used for selected processes to present practises that would have to be specifically considered by the assessor team in an Automotive SPICE® (in addition to the familiar VDA guidelines) on the part of a platform project and on the part of a customer (application) project to bring both sides back together.
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For a definition of platform and a declaration, which type platforms are considered in this article, Sect. 3.1 General.
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The mentioned base and generic practises refer to Automotive SPICE® PAM v4.0 [1].
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E.g.: It should be clearly defined, which artefacts will be delivered by a platform project at a release and especially, if a customer project wants to detach itself from the platform project (e.g.: how to receive code, is there any transition phase or transfer of knowledge planned?
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If there is no budget planned, foreseen, and approved, customer projects will face difficulties whenever any change (e.g.: bug fixing) is needed in the scope of work of the platform project).
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If the responsibilities and activities for operation and withdrawal of a platform project are not clearly defined, also BP7 of the project management process (MAN.3) should be downrated.
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Richerzhagen, M., Braunersreuther, M., Patrick, G., Wegner, T., Steger, B. (2024). Platform Assessment – Challenges and Recommendations Regarding Automotive SPICE©. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Riel, A., Messnarz, R., Greiner, C., Peisl, T. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2179. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71139-8_28
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