The challenges include managing volatility, experiencing massive uncertainty, as well as reduced predictability of future businesses. Other challenges include handling a complex, interconnected industry, and the need to form joint ventures and maintain successful supplier relationships.
The Automotive businesses must change their operating models to advance agility. An example includes ensuring OEMs is flexible to operate across the value chain and provide valueadd, as well as personalized experiences.
The Automotive companies must learn from Google and Uber that have embraced digital activities to market new business models that can promote innovation. The focus is on improving customer experiences through expansion strategies that include joint ventures or acquisitions. It is impossible for companies to enhance efficiency and performance without having a talented staff that is committed to the delivery of quality products and services.
Digital activities and innovation-driven automotive industry have increased stakes for company processes across the value chain. Dealerships, OEMs, and manufacturers of vehicle parts require individuals that are digital practical understanding to initiate transition to digital corporations. The techno-savvy employees use digital strategies to improve customer experience, leading to many companies to invest in human resource practices such as training of employees.
Recommendations - The industry has entered a time of intense investment and competition; hence, the need for smart innovation portfolio essential in helping automotive team designs.
As seen from the research, an integrated software setting makes it simple to develop and manage the embedded software starting from the inception of projects to end of the same.
The secret lies in making the processes integral in general vehicle development plan. It allows the managing of large-scale software deployments, while encouraging traceability and checking of errors.
Its therefore recommended that the automobile industries take advantage of the booming agile methodology, to monitor the designs and come up with effective innovations. By so doing, they can make model designs and hence gain a competitive advantage.
The main finding from the research is that in recent times, automobile industries are facing the complexity of automotive software whereas they need to make the release cycles even smaller. These, coupled with the pressure to cut the production costs, have led to many plan-driven developments facing failures.
It is therefore recommended that companies can adopt the latest agile methodologies to cut the costs of production, ease task switching and cut the communication chains as mentioned by the respondents. As such, processes will be faster and there will be high productivity.
Métodos e práticas ágeis mais aplicados nas organizações:
Results indicated that 72.2% responded scrum when compared to other practices. In scrum the projects are split into multiple sprints where the entire team needs to collaborate and work collectively to complete the scheduled tasks on time. Another advantage of choosing scrum is that the team is accountable as all the members move quickly to be on the same page and this leads to transparency of the project.
Roles most used in agile project:
The results show that 61.1% have chosen scrum master as the role that is being used in the agile project. The scrum master is not responsible for the project outcome when compared to project manager. The scrum team as a whole is responsible for the project outcome. Scrum master is someone who makes sure the team is focused on day to day activities such that the tasks are completed on time.
Management Frameworks
Feature Driven Development (FDD)
FDD represents a type of agile methodology developed between 1997 and 1999 by Jeff Luca in Singapore. Asks are divided in small functionalities to pulverize work under five basic principles.
The principles include developing an overall model; building features lists, planning by feature, designing by feature and building by feature. The main benefits of FDD arise because every feature represents a minimum unit of the entire project. It is an indication that each task, description, test, as well as changes remain minimal allowing the processes high agility levels that cost less in terms of time and human input.
Extreme Programming Also known as XP
This kind of agile management was developed in 1997 to concentrate on engineering practices. It is therefore common that software development aims at optimizing quality and responses to customer needs, as well as requests. The principles include simplicity that helps in removing unnecessary functions. Another principal include feedback that entails frequent contacts with clients, testing products and receiving significant suggestions.
Another principle involves changes that involve constant adaptations in the product up to the final stage. XP methodologies represent an ideal situation where clients fail to understand what they want; however constant support from experts supports agility to ensure product changes.
SCRUM by Jeff Sutherland
Developed during the 1980s and it is interactive and incremental in all the development procedures. It is the most popular method in agile methodology implementation. It relies on breaking development in different parts completed through periodic sprints. There are fixed stand-up meetings essential in tracking progress and report changes. Sprints last for over four weeks and implementers hold meetings daily including the 15-minute daily-scrums. The methodology has specific features in human components involved in the development procedure. The benefits include possibility to work with low-level client participations. More so, scrum helps to ensure teams remain motivated and prioritize quality with short deadlines.
Stack Methodology
Franklin Valadares the founder of Run tried implementing numerous agile methodologies by book during the management of teams for mobile development. In the end, he established that most of the projects were rigid and complex, with implementation suffering many setbacks, with many employees lacking enthusiasm for the same. It was therefore necessary to implement stack methodology as an alternative that proved successful in motivation of teams. The methodology fit diverse and varied activities and company projects that teams engage in. More it supports continuous delivery, as well as the fundamental agile principle. The team prioritizes tasks that have significant impacts and returns thereby optimizing use of time.
Gathered from Project Management, Graduate (PMGT) - Datrika, N. K. (2018). Implementing Agile Methodology Techniques in Automobile Industry. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.harrisburgu.edu/pmgt_dandt/38 [link here]
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