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Applying Kaizen for Improving Productivity in Automotive Software Projects

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Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE 2012)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 290))

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Automotive software industry today is living in an increasingly tougher competitive climate where there is no room for inefficiency. Reducing time to market with improved quality and productivity supported by an efficient process is the need of the hour. To reduce inefficiencies and eliminate waste is a constant challenge faced by the suppliers. Therefore in Automotive software industry any innovative way of streamlining the supply chain which constitutes the OEM, Tier-1and their suppliers is critical for time to market. In this paper we present the actual case study of application of Kaizen in an automotive software project and how it helped improve defect fix productivity.

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  1. Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India

    Smitha Bhandary, Balaji Ramachandran & Basavaraj Betageri

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Balearic Islands, Cra. de Valldemossa, km 7.5, 07122, Palma de Mallorca (Illes Balears), Spain

    Antonia Mas  & Antoni Mesquida  & 

  2. Software Quality Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Terry Rout

  3. Lero, the Irish Software Engineering, Research Centre, Dublin City University, School of Computing, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  4. InterSPICE Ltd, 23 King Street, CB1 1AH, Cambridge, UK

    Alec Dorling

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Bhandary, S., Ramachandran, B., Betageri, B. (2012). Applying Kaizen for Improving Productivity in Automotive Software Projects. In: Mas, A., Mesquida, A., Rout, T., O’Connor, R.V., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30439-2_26

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