The size and functionality of the software in a modern car increaseswith each new generation. To stay competitive automotive manufacturesmust deliver new and better features to their customers at thesame speed or faster than their competitors. A traditional waterfall processis not suitable for this speed challenge - a more agile way of workingis desirable. By introducing MDE we have seen how individual teams atVolvo Cars adopt agile practices, resulting in tensions while the organizationat large still uses a waterfall process. In an exploratory case studywe interviewed 18 engineers to better understand how agile practicescan be extended beyond individual teams. Where the tensions have theirsource in the technical specification of the software components and theirinterfaces, it turns out that it is company culture and mindsets that arethe main hurdles to overcome
