Experience with the Performance of Online Distributed Assessments - Using Advanced Infrastructure

Nowadays many projects are distributed with e.g. the project management in one country, the systems development in another, and software development even on another continent. Travelling restrictions, even more so in Corona virus times, lead to a lot of issues to be solved when performing an assessment in such a largely distributed setting. This paper describes experiences with online distributed assessment and describes case studies of how this was implemented and lessons learned. In addition the paper describes how the infrastructure helped in applying the Automotive SPICE 3.1 assessment model and the VDA Automotive SPICE Guidelines. The VDA Automotive SPICE Guidelines (blue-gold book [2]) contain rules and recommendations to interpret ASPICE 3.1 and also consider dependencies in the ratings. Assessors are now confronted with hundreds of additional rules and recommendations.