Automotive SPICE : IQI India

VDA has published Automotive SPICE v3.0 guideline (draft version) in February 2017 for community review & suggestion. The final version "Blue-Gold" book will be available in September 2017.  This provides detailed guidance on following topics: Part 1: Interpretation and rating guideline This section is very detailed & covers rating guideline for Base Practice (BP) of 16 processes (VDA scope - Old HIS Scope), relationship between rating of BPs, rating guideline for Capability Level 2, Capability Level 3. Part 2: Guideline for performing the assessment This section provide details on "assessment process" and is similar to the older version of assessment process published in 2008. It also provides concept of improvement process & requirements relating to assessor qualification. Official usage of Automotive SPICE v3.0 to conduct assessment will start after upgrade training to Principal & competent assessors.

Automotive SPICE®  is a process model used for internal process improvement & managing customer-supplier relationship involved in software development. intacs ( int ernational a ssessor c ertification  s cheme) is an scheme which maintains high standard of professionals to support intended implementation of Automotive SPICE (ASPICE). intacs has defines three grade of assessors namely: (i) Provisional Assessor (ii) Competent Assessor (iii) Principal Assessor The requirements to get certifies all three grades have been defined. Provisional & Competent Assessor requires trainings besides 4 (four) years of working experience & 5 (five) assessment experience for Competent assessor. The training material has been developed jointly & owned by intacs. These material is used by all trainers who are associated with training providing organisation. IQI consulting services provides these two trai...

My this article is intended to Assessor community & NOT to Process Improvement practitioners. Rating Rule: Existing rule: ISO/IEC 15504 Part 2 requires to rate Process Attribute (PA). In Practice: In most of the  assessments, BPs & sometimes GPs are also rated. These ratings have been used to derive Process Attribute rating. Solution: ISO/IEC 33020 (which replaces ISO/IEC 15504 Part 2) now defines three types of rating, R1, R2 & R3. The meaning of these ratings is: R1: a) Characterize process outcomes, i.e., Characterize BP for each process instance   b) Characterize process attribute outcomes, i.e., Characterize GP for each process instance c) Aggregate BP characterization of all process instances to PA1.1 rating d) Aggregate GP characterization of all process instances to respective PA rating R2: a) Characterize process attribute for each process instance   b) Aggregate process attribute characterization of all instance...

Rating Scale: Rating   scale: Automotive SPICE V2.5 & V3.0 N   Not achieved   0 to ≤ 15% achievement P   Partially achieved   > 15% to ≤ 50% achievement L   Largely achieved   > 50% to ≤ 85% achievement F   Fully achieved   > 85% to ≤ 100% achievement In V3.0, this scale has been further detailed for “P” & “L”   P-   Partially achieved -   > 15% to ≤ 32.5% achievement   P+   Partially achieved +   > 32.5 to ≤ 50% achievement   L-   Largely achieved -   > 50% to ≤ 67.5% achievement   L+   Largely achieved +   > 67.5% to ≤ 85% achievement Rating & aggregation rule has been defined in ISO 33020, whi...