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Challenges in Systems Engineering in Collaboration - Merlin Project and results overview -. Rini van Solingen October 11, 2007 Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com. What is GDSE and why do it?. What?
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Challenges in Systems Engineering in Collaboration- Merlin Project and results overview - Rini van Solingen October 11, 2007 Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
What is GDSE and why do it? • What? • The discipline of design, implementation and validation of software components and products on at least two distant geographic locations • Why? • Faster and round-the-clock development • Access to scarce resources and expertise • Lower development cost due to lower wages • Close geographical distance to customers • History (mergers and acquisitions) • No way back Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Making the promise reality… Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Distance People Management Engineering Globally Distributed Software Engineering Trust Education Language Communication Motivation Culture Knowledge Collaboration Geographical Timezone Cultural Coordination Virtual Teaming Travel Business drivers Overhead Transition Organization Work distribution Control Process Technology Development tools Life-cycle Architecture Infrastructure Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Problems in Globally Distributed Software Engineering • Distance • Short periods of synchronous communication (causing delays) • Different ways of dealing with responsibility and escalations • Misunderstandings due to cultural differences • People • Distrust and difficulties in building trust • Communication difficulties due to non-native English • Lack of informal contacts and inter-personal relations • Management • Positivistic business cases e.g. neglecting transition costs • Unclear understanding of progress and current status • Engineering • Lack of transparency within tools across sites and engineers • Different or not synchronized working processes • Insufficient/slow infrastructure Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
The GDSE paradox • To make large software engineering projects successful, intense coordination is necessary • To make large software engineering projects possible, it needs to be carried out on more locations • Software engineering on more locations makes coordination more difficult and faulty Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Common Practice Scenario Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Ideal Scenario Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Merlin Project Objective “Merlin discovers innovative ways for embedded systems engineering in collaboration by enhancing and improving software engineering processes, methods, techniques and tools that fit for different forms of collaborative development” Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Consortium • Finland: • Nokia Application partner • Solid Application partner (SME) • Oulu University Technology partner • VTT Technology and exploitation partner • Incode Application partner (SME) • Netherlands: • Philips Technology and application partner • LogicaCMG Application and exploitation partner • Delft University Technology partner • Sweden: • Sony Ericsson Technology and application partner • Ericsson Technology and application partner • Lund University Technology partner Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
What does Merlin project do? • Enabling the collaborative development of embedded systems with multiple partners • Emphasising the advantages of collaborative development and neutralising the disadvantages of collaboration • Developing dedicated effective and efficient processes and technologies for collaboration • Increasing deployability by initiating industrial cases to validate Merlin solutions • Enhance project results into exploitable solutions for collaborative development Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
How we achieve our objective? Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Solution status for problems (year 2005) Solution status for problems (2006) Solution status for problems (year 2007) Proven Available Idea No solution Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Solution status for problems (year 2007) Proven Available Idea No solution Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
9 Exploitable Solutions • Merlin ToolChain: Interconnecting tools between partners • Merlin Handbook: Your personal navigator to collaboration success • QUPER: Your support in roadmapping performance requirements • Adaptability evaluation AEM: Ensure survival and succes of your system • CollabTools Report: Your overview on collaboration support tools • SkyFab: Build and test your distributed software in a minute • ParSEQ: Improve your requirements selection quality • Req. Analyst tool: Automated traceability reconstruction • TM1 Benchmark:Measure performance in critical Telco applications Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Collaboration Handbook Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Project mgmt tool Requirements mgmt tool Doors OSRMT SynergyCM Subversion SoftFab Merlin ToolChain is customizeable! Use any combination or subset of the tools already plugged in Or, plug-in your own tool according to instructions! Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Benefit view Excessive Competitiveadvantage Saturation breakpoint Useful Differentiation breakpoint Useless Quality level Utility breakpoint QUPER for Quality Roadmapping Cost view Quality level barrier Roadmap view Competitor B Target release n2 Competitor A Target release n1 Current Bad Target Quality Indicator (Feature X, Segment Y) Utility Differentiation Saturation Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Conclusions • Globally Distrubited SE is topic for the future • Promising benefits and success stories • Much issues to solve; horror stories are available • No way back; limited alternatives • Merlin had strong and promising results • The Merlin Handbook has been finalised including validation by 14 external testers • The Merlin ToolChain has been implemented, and has been validated in a real-life industrial case • Merlin web-site up and running: www.merlinproject.org Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com
Thank you for your attention! Rini.van.Solingen@LogicaCMG.com http://www.merlinproject.org/
