Product focused software process improvement

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The Eight International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2007) convened researchers and industry practitioners to share new research findings and experiences in process and product enhancement. The conference emphasized understanding, learning, evaluating, and improving the connections between process improvement activities, such as innovative defect detection, and their impact on product outcomes like reliability and safety. Key topics included evaluating existing software process improvement (SPI) methods across various contexts, presenting new or modified SPI strategies, and exploring the relationship between SPI and emerging development techniques or application domains. This year’s theme centered on global software development, as more products are created in distributed environments with complex customer-supplier relationships. Trends like outsourcing, off-shoring, and near-shoring further complicate this landscape. Effective support for distributed development necessitates clear development process interfaces, process synchronization, and efficient evolution mechanisms. Addressing cultural barriers and establishing effective communication channels are critical challenges. Consequently, process improvement strategies must adapt to these evolving development contexts.