A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens

Re:A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens by ptaipale on Saturday August 13, 2016 @05:21AM (#12280865)

Do you know for a fact that they do develop their software in a waterfall like method? I somehow doubt that a bit. At least they publicly say:

"Volkswagen Group IT consistently uses agile workstyles and intensive cooperation with universities, technology partners and Volkswagen Group departments to develop digital solutions."

http://www.volkswagenag.com/content/vwcorp/info_center/en/ne...

Of course, cars do have a lot of legacy (not least because of inertia caused by regulatory processes) but I think they do a bit of what they say.

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Re:A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens by bArray on Saturday August 13, 2016 @06:06AM (#12280943)

Worked for a vehicle company, it's "agile" as long as it fits within the limitations set by waterfall.

I guess this is a point people will argue for days, all I can say is I have been there. There is strong emphasis on incremental feature delivery with little risk management. It usually came down to engineers pulling magic wands from somewhere and soothing the software into a workable state.

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Re:A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens by speedkills on Saturday August 13, 2016 @11:46AM (#12281868)

http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/

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Re:A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens by bArray on Saturday August 13, 2016 @01:27PM (#12282241)

Perfect.

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Re:A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens by marvin on Saturday August 13, 2016 @08:32AM (#12281212)

Haha, that's a funny description of waterfall which more or less matches the agile process at my bank.

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Re:A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens by ThrowMeAway314 on Saturday August 13, 2016 @05:48AM (#12280906)

Having worked on VW Software Projects i can assure you they drank all of the scrum koolaid.

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Re:A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens by bArray on Saturday August 13, 2016 @06:08AM (#12280952)

How did hardware and software work together to iterate on a product? Or did they outsource it?

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