 The tenth International SPICE Conference on Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination in Software, Systems Engineering and Service Management, will be held in Pisa, Italy from 19th to 20th May 2010 preceded by a Tutorials day on the 18th May.
Full papers and/or extended abstracts for Industrial Experience presentations are welcome until 2nd February 2010.
Papers and presentations related to the topics of process assessment, improvement and capability determination are invited for the conference. Topics include but are not limited to:• Adaptive process improvement; - Knowledge and skills for process assessment and improvement;
- Relating business goals and/or risks to process improvements;
- Measurement frameworks and ratings;
- Safety and dependability process model extensions;
- Relationships between process capability and organizational maturity;
- Assessment of organizations at higher Maturity Levels;
- Empirical studies on characteristics of high maturity organizations;
- Factors influencing the conduct and reliability of assessments;
- Methods, models and tools to support process assessment;
- Emerging Process Reference Models and Process Assessment Models;
- Case study and experience reports on process improvement and/or capability determination;
- Case study and experience reports in performing remote assessments;
- Benchmarking as a foundation for process improvement;
- Relationships and comparisons between different models and approaches to process assessment;
- Theoretical considerations on the basis of the technique of process assessment;
- Use of process assessment in domains outside software, systems engineering and service management;
- Issues in assessing virtual enterprises and teams;
- Assessment approaches applied to agile development;
- Conformity assessment approaches and schemes for process capability and organizational maturity
- Financial institutions and banks;
The SPICE 2010 Conference actively seeks contributions relating to the following areas of application: - Automotive systems and software;
- Aerospace systems and software;
- Medical device systems and software;
- IT service management;
- Test process improvement;
- Outsourcing organisations;
- Safety-related systems and software;
- Small and very small enterprises.
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