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I worked for one of the supplier you mentionned. The SW really has a huge place in the company and enjoy a good recognition. It has its own method of developmen
by Glawen 9y ago
I worked for one of the supplier you mentionned. The SW really has a huge place in the company and enjoy a good recognition. It has its own method of development and is SW focused.
The only drawback are the methodologies which are not agile and flexible, but on the other side this is due to recall costs being so prohibitively expensive if a million cars need to be reflashed due to a SW bug.
- weinzierl 9y agoI live in the opposite world. The importance of software isn't recognized enough but agile for almost everything is pressed very hard by upper management. A very strange version of agile, that is. One where the very first section of the agile process description elaborates how important processes are and how important it is that everyone "lives" them. Reading this made me smile, because first sentence of the original Agile Manifesto literally is "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools".
- lagadu 9y agoI can't speak for car software as our stuff is completely unrelated to cars, but I work at a company whose software BMW is a client of and we do a lot of customization for them. I can very confidently say that of our clients (most of which are banks and some of the largest pharmas in the world) BMW has the strictest software quality and testing requirements by a fairly wide margin. No idea how that reflects on software they develop internally or for their cars but to me they care a lot about the software they have.
- InternetOfStuff 9y ago> BMW has the strictest software quality and testing requirements by a fairly wide margin I find this worrying. Having worked on a variety of BMW projects over the years, I find their dedication to software quality... worthy of improvement.