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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
The Connected Car Isn’t The Only Thing Getting More Complex. So Is Its Test Environment.
In the not-so-distant future, customers will want to simply utter from the warm, frothy comfort of their hot tubs, “Hey Alexa, get the tires rotated for my Mach-E before noon tomorrow,” and expect an incredible, integrated intelligence to support this user experience. First, the connected car’s agen...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Risk Assessment
Risk assessments are at the core of automotive cybersecurity activities. The ISO/SAE 21434 international standard also requires detailed TARA – Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment – in the concept phase. With the Nine2Five TARA Navigator, we present a proven procedure with nine steps and five goals ...
Monday, November 9, 2020
The Auto Industry’s ‘Safety At Any Cost’ Changes Daily
In April of 2014, Mary Barra announced at a Senate hearing investigating the General Motors GM +1.2% ignition switch recall, “…with any safety defect, there is no calculation of the cost.” Essentially, she was stating to the world that the ‘New GM’ cared more about lives than profits and that “safet...
#Cybersecurity #Functional Safety #Automotive SPICE #Quality #Automotive Agile
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
The Critical Shortage Of Software Architects In Auto Industry
There are few that would argue the growing need for well-conceived software architectures for automotive. In the past ten years, software per vehicle has grown from ten million (10M) lines of code in the Chevy Volt (nicknamed the “King of Software Cars” by WIRED Magazine at the time) to now an estim...
#Cybersecurity #Functional Safety #Automotive SPICE #Quality #Management Consulting #Automotive Agile
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Three Epiphanies From The Agile Automotive Conference 2020
For those who attended the Agile Automotive 2020 Conference, there quickly was the realization that project management for specifically automotive is its own beast – both powerful and complex — and "out of the box", Silicon Valley Agile will not suffice. There needs to be a well-architected way of w...
#Cybersecurity #Functional Safety #Automotive SPICE #Quality #Automotive Agile