IT Support for Release Management Processes in the Automotive Industry

Abstract. Car development is based on long running, concurrently executed and highly dependent processes. The coordination and synchronization of these processes has become a complex and error-prone task due to the increasing number of functions and embedded systems in modern cars. These systems realize advanced features by embedded software and enable the distribution of functionality as required, for example, by safety equipment. Different life cycle times of mechanical, software and hardware components as well as different duration of their development processes require efficient coordination. Furthermore, productdriven process structures, dynamic adaptation of these structures, and handling real-world exceptions result in challenging demands for any IT system. In this paper we elaborate fundamental requirements for the IT support of car development processes, taking release management as characteristic example. We show to which extent current product data and process management tec...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: BPM
• Authors: Dominic Müller, Joachim Herbst, Markus Hammori, Manfred Reichert
• Keywords: BPM 2006, Business, Car Development, Dependent Processes, Development Processes