PCP R&D Process Updates Q3-2023

Changes to the process website and OnePoint documents in Q3-2023.

Process Website Updates

• See the changelog for details.

New pages

• System Requirement Review Guideline (22fd8a8)

  • New checklist for reviewing system requirements
  • Process: Requirements

• Overview of Mechanics Development (91d5442)

  • New guide for mechanics development
  • Process: Hardware Development

• High-speed design formulas (3c9face)

  • New hardware guide for high-speed analysis and design formulas for circuit boards
  • Process: Hardware Development

• Test Overview Guide (5c82f5a)

  • New test overview guide for test levels and test stages
  • Process: Test

• System Test Guide (f790bab)

  • New system test guide
  • Process: Test

• Test Phase Checklist (757ea60)

  • New checklist for test phases
  • Process: Test

• How to Handle a Product Issue (3c30767)

  • New guide for handling product issues
  • Process: L4 and Maintenance

• DoD for L4 Bugs (0b779e8)

  • New guide describing DoD for L4 bugs
  • Process: L4 and Maintenance

• How to handle Minor HW revisions (69235cd)

  • New HW guide on how to handle minor hardware revisions
  • Process: L4 and Maintenance

Updated pages

• How to work with Epics and Features (a574540)

  • Added information using Gherkin (given-when-then) for acceptance criteria.
  • Added information about estimation.
  • Process: Requirements

• Architecture (bab96da)

  • Added product capability to the list of artifacts
  • Process: Architecture

• Code Review Guideline (8e1444f)

  • Added checkpoints to the "Code Review Checklist"
  • Process: Software Development

• Hardware Development, Production Package (b4b2ced)

  • Updated list of HW artifacts
  • Process: Hardware Development

• How to create Process Change Requests (fe11c97)

  • Updated "assigned to" roles in the PCR state table
  • Process: Quality and KPIs

• DoD and DoR Guideline (922cba2)

  • Changed owner to Quality Team
  • Reorganized the contents in the guide
  • Process: Quality and KPIs

• Quality & KPIs (e0d9de8) (1cf51a5)

  • Updated the description of the Quality and KPI process
  • Some layout improvements, grammar and spelling corrections
  • Process: Quality and KPIs

• How to edit, review, and approve Markdown files (718e0a9)

  • Clarified information about pull requests for PCRs
  • Process: Quality and KPIs

• How to Manage Bugs (c6af3bc)

  • Changed state diagram, added reason "Will Not Fix" to the state "Resolved"
  • Process: Configuration Management

• How-to Handle Deferred Bugs (46f6de9)

  • Clarified information about deferring bugs
  • Process: Configuration Management

• Functional Safety (70d1831) (5e91737)

  • Added reference to the Safety Handbook document
  • Update of SIL information and references (IEC 61508-4, IEC 615011-1)
  • Process: Functional Safety

• Functional Safety, How to Manage Functional Safety certification documents (c96f331)

  • Updated the picture of the new certificate from TuV
  • Added information about the Functional Safety certificate documents
  • Process: Functional Safety

• 3rd party and OSS (ff5fbb6)

  • Added artifact for Safety tool selection report
  • Process: 3rd-party and OSS

• List of Markdown Templates (f6b9515)

  • Added a separate page with all markdown templates
  • Tools

• Recommended Extensions (ADO) (d5f4ea7) (4c6b4ba)

  • Added recommended extensions: Allure Report Viewer, Postman Report, Newman the CLI companion to Postman, Wiql editor
  • Added Jupiter to the list of ADO-recommended extensions
  • Tools

• Document Management (64e625a)

  • Updated information about DMS responsibility (PCP BP&IS) for reviews, approvals, baselining, archiving, publishing, master data, etc.
  • Info: Documentation

Minor updates of pages

• PCP R&D QMS (e6d8f81)

  • Minor update, colors of process triangle (grayscale)
  • General

• Explosives Representative ( bd77b20)

  • Minor update, the Ex. Representative role.
  • Process: Roles

• Functional Safety, Safety Engineer, Safety Manager (66acb8d)

  • Minor update, the category changed from "Safety" to "Functional Safety"
  • Process: Functional Safety

• HW Certifications, Certifications (9ead226)

  • Minor update, name change from "Explosives" to "Explosive Protection"
  • Process: Hardware Development

• Process Teams (42d3010)

  • Minor update, added reference to global PCP contacts
  • Contacts

• Product Capabilities Guide (47d7f07)

  • Minor update, moved capability guide from requirements to architecture process
  • Process: Architecture

• DoR and DoD Guide (3af8536)

  • Minor update, clarified DoD and DoR are also valid for bugs
  • Process: Quality and KPIs

• Bug Classification (5e159ab)

  • Minor update, changed the link to the Software Vulnerability Handling guide.
  • Process: Configuration Management

• 3rd party and OSS (1d95583)

  • Minor update, references to 3rd party training and OSS guidelines
  • Process: 3rd-party and OSS

Removed pages

• None

OnePoint Updates for R&D

See OnePoint for details.

• None

Document Template Updates

See the list of document templates for an overview of recommended templates. For further details about template changes, see the revision history in the template.

• 7PAA003088_en_OTX Quality Plan

• 7PAA003087_en Quality report

Recorded Process Demos

• See process demos for an overview of all performed demos.