The Benefit

Jaguar Land Rover reduced software validation time by up to 90 percent and cut bug-cause detection time by up to 90 percent.

One of the company’s primary goals is to quickly and cost-effectively deliver vehicle features that meet unique marketplace demands. For example, it needed to develop in-vehicle infotainment systems capable of delivering different media and content to four occupants, including the driver, simultaneously. With an increasing number of vehicle features, the organization also needed to effectively maintain a greater range of options and combinations from which customers could choose. To meet these goals, the Jaguar Land Rover infotainment team first needed to improve its development processes. The company had inflexible development tools that were not widely adopted by development teams. These tools failed to provide a comprehensive view of the development lifecycle, which often led to delays in development and increased costs. The Jaguar Land Rover infotainment team wanted to implement a standard requirements methodology that would facilitate requirements reuse and improve communication between the business and the supply chain.

With approximately 600 engineers at multiple sites around the world and tens of thousands of development requirements, the team sought a seamless way to deliver requirements and changes from one team member to other team members and teams in near real time.