This topic is actually very abstract one and it had me thinking which company's/projects business and development model would I take.
I've always interested in Elon Musk as well as Richard Branson but this time, instead of Virgin I decided to take Tesla.
They are focused in different areas of electricity, like electric cards, lithium-ion battery storage's, residential solar panels. Leonardo DiCaprio talked with Elon Musk in Tesla's Gigafactory and there was a phrase that you need 100 Gigafactories to power the entire world with sustainable energy. So Actually I was interested in their business and software development model.
If I go to their homepage and look for job ads, then we see 22 teams and if we google for some keywords in their careers sub-page like:
- Agile - 10 results
- Scrum - 2 results
- Lean - 23 results
- Waterfall - 0 results
- Critical path - 5 results
- Kanban - 2 results
Chaos, Spiral, V-model, Prince2 and I didn't go through all the list assuming that already those didn't give any match here and I got matches to some of them above.
They have today (21.04.2017) 2480 job adds and if we divide it to department wise we get following result:
| Department | Count |
| Communications | 4 |
| Design | 14 |
| Energy Products | 51 |
| Engineering | 322 |
| Facilities | 28 |
| Finance | 92 |
| Gigafactory | 73 |
| HR | 68 |
| IT | 76 |
| Legal | 13 |
| Manufacturing | 200 |
| Marketing | 45 |
| Production | 14 |
| Quality | 17 |
| Retail Development | 13 |
| Sales | 719 |
| Service | 638 |
| Supply Chain | 82 |
| Workplace | 11 |
| Grand Total | 2480 |
| Position | Methology based on Google | Department |
| Staff Program Manager, Service Operations | agile | couldn't match Google result to available job |
| Senior Mechanical Design Engineer- Interior Systems | agile | couldn't match Google result to available job |
| .Net Developer | agile | IT |
| Mechanical Design Engineer - Closures Systems | agile | Engineering |
| Sr. Engineer- Lighting Systems | agile | Engineering |
| Software Application Engineer | agile | Engineering |
| Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Seating Systems | agile | Engineering |
| Engineer- Interior Systems | agile | Engineering |
| Sr. Performance & Scalability Test Engineer | agile | IT |
| Staff Program Manager, Service Operations | scrum | couldn't match Google result to available job |
| .Net Developer | scrum | IT |
| Process Engineer, Gigafactory | lean | Gigafactory |
| Process Technician - Seat Manufacturing | lean | Manufacturing |
| Material Project Manager - Manufacturing Introduction Group | lean | Manufacturing |
| Material Project Manager - Manufacturing Introduction Group | lean | Manufacturing |
| Material Handler | lean | Service |
| Engineer- Interior Systems | lean | Engineering |
| Tool and Die Maker - Assembly/Tryout | lean | Manufacturing |
| Mechanical Design Engineer - Closures Systems | lean | Engineering |
| EHS Manager - Factory Departments | lean | Manufacturing |
| Production Planner | lean | Production |
| Engineering Applications Product Manager | critical path | IT |
| Installation Project Manager - Supercharger | critical path | couldn't match Google result to available job |
| Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Battery Enclosure | critical path | Engineering |
| Tesla Supercharger Land Use and Permitting Specialist | critical path | Engineering |
| Material Project Manager - Manufacturing Introduction Group | kanban | couldn't match Google result to available job |
| Production Planner | kanban | Production |
In summary it comes to that Tesla actually uses a agile at least in Engineering, Gigafatory, IT, Manufacturing, Production and Service departments.
| Department | Number |
| couldn't match Google result to available job | |
| agile | 2 |
| critical path | 1 |
| kanban | 1 |
| scrum | 1 |
| couldn't match Google result to available job Total | 5 |
| Engineering | |
| agile | 5 |
| critical path | 2 |
| lean | 2 |
| Engineering Total | 9 |
| Gigafactory | |
| lean | 1 |
| Gigafactory Total | 1 |
| IT | |
| agile | 2 |
| critical path | 1 |
| scrum | 1 |
| IT Total | 4 |
| Manufacturing | |
| lean | 5 |
| Manufacturing Total | 5 |
| Production | |
| kanban | 1 |
| lean | 1 |
| Production Total | 2 |
| Service | |
| lean | 1 |
| Service Total | 1 |
Although those results are based on Google search it seems that they are using very agile methodology.
It also is shown that they are using agile approach as their cars pretty much get monthly upgrades of new features, they don't wait when they have product fully ready, but they rather give and improve customers experience every month. Porsche is also making electric car to compete with Tesla, but Porsche first car will come around 2020 and by that time they are way too late to compete in the electric car market with agile development models.
Tesla didn't make cheap car, they sat down, thought what they can do and how to do fast, they did super car which is able to get updates in your home WiFi and get additional features. You put stuff in, put activation can be over time, not everything must work in the first place. Recently they activated serf driving capabilities. Sensors where there, they just weren't activated.
This is excellent example of agile business model which has high level road-map planned and roll-out takes in place feature by feature. I would call it even high level is planned with traditional method, which is split to iterations and iterations are handled by agile model. Combination of many methodologies which actually makes this very rapid, fast and professional company which delivers.
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