www.eetimes.com, Aug. 25, 2020 –
In my previous column I talked about the growing importance of automotive software and used the create-make-market-use concept to show how different software is from hardware. The summary of this column is that a strategy of using software platform is the best way to succeed in automotive software market.
Software is notoriously difficult to plan and execute – it is especially hard to estimate the completion time of large software projects. This has been true since the 1960s and a famous book called "The Mythical Man-Month" documents this fact. The book was published in 1975 and updated in 1995 by Fred Brooks. Software project completion issues can be summarized by Brooks's law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later!