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Agile Development in Automotive Software Development: Challenges and Opportunities

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2014)

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In modern cars, most of the functionalities are controlled by software. The increased significance of software-based functionality has resulted in various challenges for automotive industry, which is slowly transitioning towards being a software centric industry. Challenges include the definition of key competencies, processes, methods, tools, and organization settings to accommodate combined development of software and hardware. Based on qualitative research, this paper aims at understanding the applicability of agile methods to automotive software development. Our explorative case study with one of the development sections at Volvo Car Cooperation identified challenges in their software development process related to process perception and reactive mode, multi-tasking and frequent task switching, individualism and lack of complete knowledge, as well as long communication chains and low cross-function mind set. Moreover it prepares a transition of software development at this multinational automotive company towards agile by relating agile principles and practices to automotive software process challenges.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers| University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Brian Katumba & Eric Knauss

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  1. Fraunhofer IESE, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Jedlitschka

  2. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, FI-90014, Finland

    Pasi Kuvaja

  3. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense, Denmark

    Marco Kuhrmann

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Tomi Männistö  & Jürgen Münch  & 

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalto University, 00076, Aalto, Finland

    Mikko Raatikainen

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Katumba, B., Knauss, E. (2014). Agile Development in Automotive Software Development: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Jedlitschka, A., Kuvaja, P., Kuhrmann, M., Männistö, T., Münch, J., Raatikainen, M. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8892. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13835-0_3

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