Change management methodologies trained for automotive infotainment projects

International Conference on Applied Sciences 2016

Prostean, G.^1 ; Volker, S.^1 ; Hutanu, A.^1

Politehnica University of Timisoara, Faculty of Management in Production and Transportation, Remus str., no. 14, Timisoara

300191, Romania^1

关键词: Automotive development;    Automotive infotainment;    Configuration management;    Contract specifications;    Development project;    Electronic control units;    Hardware implementations;    Project management process;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/163/1/012012/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/163/1/012012

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

An Automotive Electronic Control Units (ECU) development project embedded within a car Environment is constantly under attack of a continuous flow of modifications of specifications throughout the life cycle. Root causes for those modifications are for instance simply software or hardware implementation errors or requirement changes to satisfy the forthcoming demands of the market to ensure the later commercial success. It is unavoidable that from the very beginning until the end of the project "requirement changes" will "expose" the agreed objectives defined by contract specifications, which are product features, budget, schedule and quality. The key discussions will focus upon an automotive radio-navigation (infotainment) unit, which challenges aftermarket devises such as smart phones. This competition stresses especially current used automotive development processes, which are fit into a 4 Year car development (introduction) cycle against a one-year update cycle of a smart phone. The research will focus the investigation of possible impacts of changes during all phases of the project: the Concept-Validation, Development and Debugging-Phase. Building a thorough understanding of prospective threats is of paramount importance in order to establish the adequate project management process to handle requirement changes. Personal automotive development experiences and Literature review of change- and configuration management software development methodologies led the authors to new conceptual models, which integrates into the structure of traditional development models used in automotive projects, more concretely of radio-navigation projects.