Scrum and Embedded Software development for the automotive industry

Embedded Software is becoming a key buying criterion for new vehicle customers. Workshops, Conferences and Presentations worldwide are showing that SCRUM methodology is increasing software development speed. So far SCRUM has seen little application in automotive industry where V-model, a more rigid methodology, is dominant. Scientific journals have not been sensitive to the opportunity of speeding up the Embedded Software development by applying SCRUM methodology. The purpose of this study is to provide a firsthand investigation about the factors that may speed up the development and integrate SCRUM with the regular methodology in automotive industry. The challenge is to find the best framework to combine SCRUM and the V-model for Systems Engineering Process. Both should be together applied, as a hybrid methodology, to keep the accepted levels of quality and safety powertrain requirements.