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The V-model approach to development, well established in the automotive industry, is subject to high regulations imposed by the required compliance to standards, however, the increasing demand for innovation induces an increasing interest for agile methodologies both on OEM’s and supplier’s side. Compared to traditional product development methods, agile work approaches lead to a different understanding of cooperation, responsibilities and intermediary goals and approval. Automotive SPICE®, originally created and used in a traditional development environment, can be applied and interpreted in its current form for any type of development organizations. Nevertheless, industries struggle to interpret and implement Automotive SPICE in an agile environment and many Automotive SPICE assessors have difficulty mapping agile development appropriately to the Automotive SPICE model. The Working Group Agile SPICE at intacs™ is currently developing the add-on Agile SPICE™ as a new Process Assessment Model to reduce misunderstandings and to give a clear interpretation of the terminology for both the agile and the V-Model driven traditional world. In this paper, we outline the motivations of our work and the main concepts underlying the model, complemented by the experience gathered during the first pilot utilization.
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The definition of agility was elaborated based on the Agile Manifesto [15] by Kugler Maag Cie and Knüvener Mackert GmbH.
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The agile principles for automotive were originally adapted from the agile principle by Kugler Maag Cie.
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Concerning the team/project size we refer to the number of collaborators involved in the development project, the number and size of the teams depends on the organization type: small = 5–15, medium = 16–40, large = 41–80, very large = > 80 collaborators.
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Agile team maturity is estimated qualitatively according to our definition (see Sect. 2.2).
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We thank all the colleagues contributing to the Agile SPICE Working Group for the fruitful discussion and critical exchange during the preparation of this paper. Particularly we thank Christian Hertneck and Samer Sameh for their contribution to Sect. 3 and their useful suggestions.
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Salazar Dorn, C., Knüvener, C.L. (2021). Building the Bridge Between Automotive SPICE® and Agile Development. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Messnarz, R., Reiner, M. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1442. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85521-5_26
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