Automotive SW Development: How Lifecycles Can Help Your Project & Product

Are you trying to innovate more, but you feel as if your lifecycle or the organization’s processes/procedures hold you back? Many organizations embed their lifecycle assumptions into organizational processes. That means the projects may have compliance trouble. Instead, you can use more iteration and incrementalism in your project—and you don’t have to use an agile approach to do so. You can start to think in bets—not have to know everything to start. When you do, you can accomplish more. See how various lifecycles support more experimentation and more feedback, internal and external.

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1. Agility in the Context of Automotive Software Development or How Lifecycles Can Help Your Project & Product Johanna Rothman @johannarothman www.jrothman.com
2. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman History & Context for Lifecycles • The context for Royce’s 1970 paper • He said not to use a waterfall • He said to iterate 2
3. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Current Context • Compare those computers to what’s on: • Your desk • Your lap • Your watch 3
4. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Our tools have changed. Our approaches need to change. 4
5. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman 5
6. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Original Waterfall: One Delivery for all Feedback 6
7. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman V-Model: Optimizes for Coding, One Delivery 7
8. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Money Waterfall Misconceptions • Can manage the money because we “finish” the work • However, knowledge work is about learning as we proceed 8
9. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Waterfall Realities • We often need feedback • One-delivery approaches work for very short projects 9
10. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Iterative Lifecycle: Spiral • Feedback for each prototype • One delivery 10
11. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Iterative: Evolutionary Prototyping • Feedback for initial concept and each prototype • One delivery 11
12. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Incremental: Design to Schedule • Feedback after each completed feature • Optional releases 12
13. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Incremental: Staged Delivery • Feedback after each completed feature • As many releases as you need 13
14. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Combo Lifecycle • Feedback after each prototype • Decide when to release 14
15. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Agile Approaches • Feedback & Release after each increment of work 15
16. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Hardware is a Little Trickier 16
17. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Requirements for Feedback About the Product • Continuous integration so can release inside the organization 17
18. © 2021 Johanna Rothman @johannarothman Let’s Stay in Touch • The books: • Manage It!: https://www.jrothman.com/ manageit • Create Your Successful Agile Project: https://www.jrothman.com/cysap • Blog series: https:// www.jrothman.com/lifecycle • Pragmatic Manager newsletter: www.jrothman.com/pragmaticmanager • Please link with me on LinkedIn 18