Agile in Automotive - Agenda Day 1 - 16th April

UNDERSTAND WHAT AGILE MEANS, WHAT IS DRIVING THE AGILE WAY OF DEVELOPMENT & THE PROCESS REQUIRED TO CARRY IT OUT IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

What is Agile? Many assume it’s as simple as completing a process quickly or working in sprints, but a wider understanding of Agile shows that it is a mindset, a way of living, an approach to help implement good practices for design thinking, customer centricity, continuous improvement, and increased efficiency to name a few. In automotive development, Agile has the potential to revolutionise day-to-day work, where development is fast-moving, and new features need to be implemented and delivered as soon as possible.

This presentation is delivered by an expert with a real understanding of Agile and the value it drives for the automotive organisation. Take a front row seat in the audience to:

• Understand how the Agile mindset can be adapted from the software industry to best fit automotive and its practices.
• Understand the instances in which Agile is and is not applicable, getting a true understanding of the potential benefits of Agile when applied correctly.
• Understand the advantages of Scrum, XP, and KanBan, and where they are best applied.
• Learn ways to analyse your own organisation to help find the best benefits and advantages for you.
• Look at the mindset needed for the development cycle and how to achieve this in various organisational structures.
• Gain insight into the future of Agile and its application in the automotive industry.

Stéphane Wojewoda

Expert Lean-Agile
Renault Group

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UNDERSTAND HOW TO MANAGE PUSHBACK & PENETRATE AN AGILE MINDSET IN WHAT IS A TRADITIONALLY MECHANICAL AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

• Debating the importance of integrating and developing Agile as a culture and transforming the company into Agile as efficiently as possible.
• Understand where the willingness for Agile comes from – is it a top-down or bottom-up movement?
• Best practices for convincing managers and businesses to move to an Agile strategy and culture, and how to change the mindset in the development cycle.
• Overcoming the mindset challenges of traditional managers.
• Explore how Agile is integrated top-down and what the intake is from developers and creators.

Aisling Finn

Lead Agile Coach
JLR

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Shiv Tailor

Vice President Enterprise Technology
Volta Trucks

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Osman Selçuk Sarıoğlu

Organisation Transformation Leader, Transformation Team
Ford Otosan

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Christer Dahlström

Agile Coach
Scania Group

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UNDERSTAND HOW STRATEGIC ROLES & ENVIRONMENTS HAVE EVOLVED AT A LEADING OEM COMPANY TO DRIVE CHANGE & AGILITY

Some parts of the industry hold the view that is near impossible to change mindsets; what needs to be done instead is to create environments and approaches that allow us to integrate different mindsets and show a common approach to organisational behaviour and overall organisational design.

• Find out how rigorous the implementation of the Agile Manifesto needs to be for a team and organisation to be considered Agile.
• Understand what the required roles in an Agile project are, and how to maintain efficiency with additional team members.
• Explore how the organisational structure is brought together when transitioning to an Agile framework.
• Hear details on the strategic evolvement of roles and how they helped drive change in different levels of the organisation.

Florian Rohde

Senior Manager, System Integration & Validation
Formerly at Tesla

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CASE STUDY ON HOW TEAMS/DEPARTMENTS HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED FROM CLASSICAL TO AGILE THINKING

Hear a real-world success story on how an OEM company transformed from a classical to an Agile way of thinking and working, to design and deliver better products.

• Find out the challenges faced and what was done to solve them.
• Find out specific approaches and steps considered for effective transformation of traditional methodologies.
• Explore how interactions within the company and with external partners and customers changed when transitioning from classical to Agile working.

CAPABILITIES OF DIGITAL VALUE STREAM/MIND MAPPING TOOLS PROVIDERS, TESTING SOFTWARE COMPANIES, AND EXTERNAL EVALUATORS

• Hear from companies that provide solutions for making the mapping/analysing value streams.
• Hear from companies that have the ability to give automotive companies a complete assessment of where they fall on the agility scale and how active your team is when it comes to adhering to the method.

MEET BUSINESS & CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS WITH SPEED & AGILITY

The product planning phase is the backbone of vehicle development as the team conceives and agrees on the shared vision of what the product will be before going to market. The adoption of Agile practices can benefit this process by introducing a proper product development process, resulting in fewer delays in the production cycle. Finding the best speed to prepare and develop the product architecture is key for successful product development.

Listen to an expert use case on how Agile methods were applied in product development; hear successes and lessons learned to speed up the development process.

• Find out how Agile practices can provide benefits from early product planning to R&D product design and development phases.
• Explore how Agile they could have been versus how Agile they were in the process.
• Delve into the importance of product architecture and structure for the successful implementation of Agile.

Osman Selçuk Sarıoğlu

Organisation Transformation Leader, Transformation Team
Ford Otosan

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLASSIC & AGILE PROCESSES

Automotive SPICE, ISO26262 and other regulations aim to ensure high product quality by carefully controlling the product development and manufacturing process. A company that does not yet meet a required standard must adapt its process organization and/or its organizational structure, i.e. it must change. How an organizational change affects the employees concerned is a well-known part of change management. However, the processes themselves already have a psychological impact on the attitudes, feelings, behaviour and performance of employees, not just the change itself.

This presentation looks at the psychological impact of processes. In particular, the differences between classic and agile processes will be highlighted. This will result in recommendations for future change programs and target images.

Tobias Rüdiger Maier

Change Agent, Senior Agile Coach & Solution Train Engineer
HELLA

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MEET DEADLINES FOR DIFFERENT REGIONS & DIFFERENT VEHICLE LINES WITH STABILITY

• Understand how to use Agile to benefit the number of deadlines in the development cycle.
• Explore how Agile methods can be used to limit chaos and bring stability in order to meet an array of different deadlines all at once.
• Find out best practices to balance the shifting market focus and meet the various regional demands whilst continuing to meet all deadlines.
• Hear how leveraging over-the-air updates can assist the automotive industry in becoming more Agile.
• Discuss how flexible deadline approaches from the tech industry can co-exist with automotive’s current fixed deadline approaches, and where they are best applied.

BUSINESS CASE FOR AGILE IMPLEMENTATION

On an employee and customer level, people are a huge part of the thought process when thinking about introducing Agile practices. It is vital for companies to continue to deliver value in the workplace and their products while utilising the Agile mindset.

• Find out how Agile methods have been implemented to create value, while reducing waste.
• Understand how employees feel, act, and behave when teams are adopting and transforming into Agile.
• Learn best practices for receiving and actioning employee feedback to better implement the processes and deliver value in the workplace.
• Explore how companies maintain the focus on customer centricity when applying Agile.
• What are the preconditions to be able to design and live a continuous delivery approach?

Egle Bernotaite

Agile Coach
Formerly at Ford Motor Company

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