Barriers and enablers for shortening software development lead-time in mechatronics organizations: A case study
Paper in proceeding, 2015

The automotive industry adopts various approaches to reduce the production lead time in order to be competitive on the market. Due to the increasing amount of in-house software development, this industry gets new opportunities to decrease the software development lead-time. This can have a significant impact on decreasing time to market and fewer resources spent in projects. In this paper we present a study of software development areas where we perceived barriers for fast development and where we have identified enablers to overcome these barriers. We conducted a case study at one of the vehicle manufacturers in Sweden using structured interviews. Our results show that there are 21 barriers and 21 corresponding enablers spread over almost all phases of software development.

Automotive software

Lead-time

V-model

Author

M.M. Mahally

Volvo Cars

Miroslaw Staron

University of Gothenburg

Jan Bosch

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2015, Bergamo, Italy, 30 August - 4 September 2015

1006-1009
978-1-4503-3675-8 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

DOI

10.1145/2786805.2804433

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