Automotive SPICE : IQI India

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...

Both processes leads to changing project work products which are already baselined. To update the baselined work products, change (control) management (part of Configuration Management Process) is called. However, before calling change management process, the analysis of defects / change request shall be completed. The concept of their implementation is shown below: Automotive SPICE defines two processe s; SUP.9 Problem Resolution Management (PRM) & SUP.10 Change Request Management (CRM) Process. Few organisation manages these two processes with same tool & combines the flow but identifies with categorisation.  Difficulty is seen when CMMI based organisation tries to fulfil the CRM requirements using SG2 requirement of CM Process Area of CMMI. Some of the activities are not get defined completely. By adding additional requirements as indicate above (also defined in Automotive SPICE SUP.10), the compliance to SUP....

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...

Automotive SPICE v2.5 has Engineering Processes as ENG.1 ~ ENG.10 covering system & software domain processes. Automotive SPICE v3.0 has been upgraded with concept of "Plug-in" domain specific processes. System Engineering process have been separated with SYS.1 ~ SYS.5 on top level of architecture. Domain specific processes, i.e., Software Engineering have been defined as SWE.1 ~ SWE.6. The placeholder for Hardware Engineering (HWE.1 ~ HWE.4) & Mechanical Engineering (MEE.1 ~ MEE.4) have been created. In future, with the availability of Hardware engineering & Mechanical Engineering processes, Process scope can be enlarged.  For details visit www.iqiconsulting.com or write to us on contact@iqiconsulting.com

Automtoive SPICE Model has been derived from ISO/IEC 15504 Part 5 (Exemplar Process Assessment for Information Technology). Out of 48 processes in Part 5, 26 processes are selected and described (with some changes) in Automotive SPICE & 5 new processes are added. Thus total 31 processes are defined in Automotive SPICE. The processes which are relevant to manage customer-supplier relationship in automotive industry (OEM-Supplier) has been described in Automotive SPICE. Each process is defined with process purpose, outcome, base practices (BP) & output work product (WP). BP & WP is mapped with outcome of the processes with n-to-n relationship. Automotive SPICE model defines 5 Capability Level (CL). Each CL is characterized with Process Attributes (PA). CL-1 has 1 PA, CL-2 to CL-5 has 2 PA each. Each Process Attributes has been defined with "Result of full achievement", Generic Practices (GP) & Generic Work Product (GWP). GP & GWP are mapped with "Res...