Quote: (Originally Posted by
Fulefejs)
Something, I don´t know what, is hooked up in software engineering.
This part is taking place on the other side of the big pond, have anyone from "over there" heard something?
/D
Oh, this sounds like a modern classic. A mechanical engineering company developing a product where software is a part.... The organisation is set up for drawing, prototypes, testing, tooling and manufacture. This process is hopefully well known and documented. Management knows the process, and have probably started their career in a similar setting.
In comes electronics, and then programmable electronics. This is more or less black magic to most "mechanical persons". At first software is seen as a way to allow for late changes and cost savings, later on with more and more software in the product the management will find that more and more of the design, development and product maintenance is done outside of the ordinary mechanical engineering processes.
What this will do to cost and time control is left to the reader to find out...
/Sten