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Andrea and Varshitha introduce me to BMW Labs. Then we completely nerd out about HomeAssistant and its integration to BMW vehicles. Also we are not sorry about that :)

For further reading:

https://labs.bmw.com](https://labs.bmw.com)

Chris explains how to move from View based UI to Compose in a large-scale Navigation App.

Max and Mladen are here, and we talk about long distance travel with electric cars.

For deeper information check these theses:

- Globally optimized route calculation: [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8813822](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8813822)

- Meta Routing: [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9264845](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9264845)

- Time-optimal Strategy: [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9178332](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9178332)

Or a more visual explanation: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dLBNudMUAQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dLBNudMUAQ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocNZ3Ni2raw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocNZ3Ni2raw)

David joins me to talk about his experiences evaluating LLMs and building new features from them.

We talk about their use as developers, a little bit about customer features and the question if they make us developers obsolete in the future

Nora and Phil join me in my little Podcasting booth. We talk about rebuilding the Navigation User Experience for BMW OS9

and MINI.

In this episode we introduce our listeners to the thought processes behind the new UI for BMW and also into the

reasoning behind certain decisions in the MINI UI.

We talk about market requirements and studies that have been taken and how we as team HoneyBee managed all of this

Maxim takes me into the realm of Data Products.

We talk about how we generate data products based on a specific example. We go a little into the machine learning

background and then walk through the development side to learn how all the knowledge is applied to actual products.

Susanne gives me a glimpse into how our Intelligent Personal Assistant works

We talk about all the building blocks, team setup and testing. We also go through all layers and functionalities that

have to work seamlessly in twenty languages. Also we hint about the future.

Céline tells me what a software practice is at BMW, how to build it up and how to keep growing.

We are talking about myJourney and the Connected Company and about the department structures. How

the journey began and what steps were taken to set up and grow software development here ad the CoCo.

Also, we go through career paths for a developer and what will come up in the near future in terms of software development.

Dimitri tells me his three ground rules on how to set up an agile project in a waterfall-oriented company.

We are talking about reducing dependencies, increasing team responsibility and establish a before and after view.

Maria talks me through her journey of becoming an Android developer within Team HoneyBee

Chris talks me through mobile App development at BMW.

We are talking about early stages and tech stacks and all the learnings we gained along the way. Then we go over the

My BMW App development from the beginning to now.

For further reading:

https://www.bmw.de/de/topics/service-zubehoer/bmw-connecteddrive/my-bmw-app.html](https://www.bmw.de/de/topics/service-zubehoer/bmw-connecteddrive/my-bmw-app.html)

https://github.com/bmw-tech](https://github.com/bmw-tech)

Klara is telling me all about her doctorate.

For further reading:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.04267.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.04267.pdf)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.08934.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.08934.pdf)

This time I have my teammate Max with me who tells us more about developing a large-scale automotive Android Application.

We dive into the similarities between CE devices and cars and talk about their differences as well. We also go through our development and testing strategies and talk about the perks of developing a car app: driving during coding.

For further reading:

https://zuul-ci.org/](https://zuul-ci.org/)

https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/zuul-case-study-bmw/](https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/zuul-case-study-bmw/)

In our first episode we talk to Konrad, the PO of team Honey Bee. We talk about the origin story, how work is being done and what has been learned.

For further reading:

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/the-bmw-group-the-mapbox-navigation-sdk-for-automotive](https://www.mapbox.com/blog/the-bmw-group-the-mapbox-navigation-sdk-for-automotive)

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0401875EN/bmw-group-expands-bmw-operating-system-8-integrates-android-automotive-os](https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0401875EN/bmw-group-expands-bmw-operating-system-8-integrates-android-automotive-os)

What the heck is this thing? And more introductory notes.