Rory O’Connor & Nathan Baddoo 
Software Process Improvement 
15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Ireland, September 3-5, 2008, Proceedings

This textbook is intended for use by SPI (Software Process Improvement) managers and researchers, quality managers, and experienced project and research managers. The papers constitute the research proceedings of the 15th Euro SPI (European So- ware Process Improvement, www.eurospi.net) conference in Dublin, Ireland, 3–5 September 2008. Since the first conference, held in Dublin in 1994, Euro SPI conferences have been held in 1995 in Vienna (Austria), in 1997 in Budapest (Hungary), in 1998 in Goth- burg (Sweden), in 1999 in Pori (Finland), in 2000 in Copenhagen (Denmark), in 2001 in Limerick (Ireland), in 2002 in Nuremberg (Germany), in 2003 in Graz (Austria), in 2004 in Trondheim (Norway), in 2005 in Budapest (Hungary), in 2006 in Joensuu (Finland), and in 2007 in Potsdam (Germany). Euro SPI has established an experience library (library.eurospi.net), which will be c- tinuously extended over the next few years and was made available to all attendees. Euro SPI has also started an umbrella initiative for establishing a European Quali- cation Network in which different SPINs and national ventures can join mutually beneficial collaborations (EQN – EU Leonardo da Vinci network project). With a general assembly on 15.-16.10.2007 through Euro SPI partners and n- works, in collaboration with the European Union (supported by the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme), a European certification association has been created (www.- certificates.org) for the IT and services sector to offer SPI knowledge and certificates to industry, establishing close knowledge transfer links between research and industry.

Table of Content

Organizational Issues.- Building a Narrative Based Requirements Engineering Mediation Model.- Problems Encountered When Implementing Agile Methods in a Very Small Company.- A Process Asset Library to Support Software Process Improvement in Small Settings.- Productivity, Effort Estimation and Metrics.- Criteria for Estimating Effort for Requirements Changes.- Productivity of Pair Programming in a Distributed Environment – Results from Two Controlled Case Studies.- Software Functional Size: For Cost Estimation and More.- Standards and Reference Models.- Process Reference Guides – Support for Improving Software Processes in Alignment with Reference Models and Standards.- Practical SPI Planning.- Analysis of Dependencies between Specific Practices in CMMI Maturity Level 2.- A Solution for Establishing the Information Technology Service Management Processes Implementation Sequence.- Modeling and Assessment in IT Service Process Improvement.- A Software Engineering Lifecycle Standard for Very Small Enterprises.- Documentation and Knowledge Management.- Lightweight Process Documentation: Just Enough Structure in Automotive Pre-development.- Employees’ Motivation for SPI: Case Study in a Small Finnish Software Company.- A Knowledge Management Approach to Support Software Process Improvement Implementation Initiatives.- Project Issues.- An Operational Approach for Selecting Open Source Components in a Software Development Project.- A Case Study of Coordination in Distributed Agile Software Development.- Pro PAMet: A Metric for Process and Project Alignment.