Cost engineering for embedded software

Objective

The further and new development of control units in vehicles requires high development effort on the hardware and software level. The goal of the project is to create transparency about the effort of further developing the control units' software, the connection to the sensors and other hardware components in the vehicle.

Approach

• Identifying effort drivers & functional changes
• Internal & external benchmarking to evaluate the functional changes
• Structuring the demand & preparing the changes
• Dissolving black-box procurement
• Developing cost estimation methods & tools
• Training purchasing and engineering in performance-oriented procurement

Result

• Standardized methodology for identifying and evaluating the functional changes of the control unit software
• 3-day training on performance-oriented software procurement — from effort estimation, analysis phase, software & vendor selection through to implementation support.