Process-Focused Lessons Learned from a Multi-site Development Project at Daimler Trucks

Daimler Trucks, being a very internationally oriented business unit within Daimler AG, is in the challenging position to manage multi-site development projects. Therefore, the Engine Control Unit including comprehensive embedded Software has to be developed for several markets, brands and engines. One challenge during this project included setting up a development process, updating this process continuously and training it on the different sites. In this paper, the decision for the current development process will be shown. Also, the need and reasoning to update this process for example during an improvement cycle will be demonstrated. The second part of this paper will focus on the establishing and training of these processes and process improvements. Especially the lessons learned within this project lasting several years will be pointed out.