Forces that Support Agile Adoption in the Automotive Domain

The ability to develop and deploy high-quality software at a high speed gets increasing relevance for the competitiveness of car manufacturers. Agile practices have shown benefits such as faster time to market in several application domains. Therefore, it seems to be promising to carefully adopt agile practices also in the automotive domain. This article presents findings from an interview-based qualitative survey. It aims at understanding perceived forces that support agile adoption. Particularly, it focuses on embedded software development for electronic control units in the automotive domain. The used research method and the selection of participants are described in detail in another article [Ho16] presenting perceived forces that prevent agile adoption.