Case Study: BMW Group accelerates global expansion and boosts agility, efficiency, and quality with Planview Value Stream Management

BMW Group Expands into New Markets by Using Value Stream Management to Improve Agility, Efficiency, and Quality

The BMW Group, a global leader in premium automobiles with major operations including its Chinese joint venture BMW Brilliance Automotive, faced the challenge of replicating its German R&D processes in China amid a company-wide Agile transformation. To succeed in the Chinese market, BMW needed cloud-ready, scalable, and secure toolchains, high-performance simulation infrastructure, and reliable data supply from Germany to its Shenyang simulation center to support E/E testing, distributed collaboration, and consistent Agile workflows.

Working with Planview Tasktop, BMW implemented value stream management and integrated toolchains that linked software and engineering data across geographies (including Jira-to-Jira and simulation data flows). This enabled faster software integration, consistent Agile data, and deeper process insights via Tasktop Viz; the simulation project finished one year ahead of schedule despite COVID, accelerating time-to-insight and improving the organization’s ability to identify bottlenecks and continuously improve.

BMW Group

René Te-Strote

Senior It Project Lead, Geometrical Development Design