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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement - 24th European Conference, EuroSPI 2017, Ostrava, Czech Republic, September 6-8, 2017, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Jakub Stolfa, Svatopluk Stolfa, Rory O'Connor, Richard Messnarz
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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th
EuroSPI conference, held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, in September
2017.The 56 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed
and selected from 97 submissions. They are organized in topical
sections on SPI and VSEs, SPI and process models, SPI and safety,
SPI and project management, SPI and implementation, SPI issues, SPI
and automotive, selected key notes and workshop papers, GamifySPI,
SPI in Industry 4.0, best practices in implementing traceability,
good and bad practices in improvement, safety and security,
experiences with agile and lean, standards and assessment models,
team skills and diversity strategies.
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Software Process Improvement - 16th European Conference, EuroSPI 2009, Alcala (Madrid), Spain, September 2-4, 2009, Proceedings (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Rory O'Connor, Nathan Baddoo, Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego, Ricardo Rejas Muslera, Kari Smolander, …
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This textbook is intended for SPI (software process improvement)
managers and - searchers, quality managers, and experienced project
and research managers. The papers constitute the research
proceedings of the 16th EuroSPI (European Software Process
Improvement, www.eurospi.net) conference held in Alcala (Madrid
region), September 2-4, 2009, Spain. Conferences have been held
since 1994 in Dublin, 1995 in Vienna (Austria), 1997 in Budapest
(Hungary), 1998 in Gothenburg (Sweden), 1999 in Pori (Finland),
2000 in Copenhagen (Denmark), 2001 in Limerick (Ireland), 2002 in
Nuremberg (G- many), 2003 in Graz (Austria), 2004 in Trondheim
(Norway), 2005 in Budapest (Hungary), 2006 in Joensuu (Finland),
2007 in Potsdam (Germany), 2008 in Dublin (Ireland), and 2009 in
Alcala (Spain). EuroSPI established an experience library
(library.eurospi.net) which will be conti- ously extended over the
next few years and will be made available to all attendees. EuroSPI
also created an umbrella initiative for establishing a European
Qualification Network in which different SPINs and national
initiatives join mutually beneficial collaborations (ECQA -
European Certification and Qualification Association,
www.ecqa.org). With a general assembly during October 15-16, 2007
through Euro-SPI partners and networks, in collaboration with the
European Union (supported by the EU L- nardo da Vinci Programme) a
European certification association has been created
(www.eu-certificates.org, www.ecqa.org) for the IT and services
sector to offer SPI knowledge and certificates to industry,
establishing close knowledge transfer links between research and
industry.
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public health, with far-reaching social, economic, and emotional
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From weddings and wakes to hangovers, pre-marriage courses, working
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important things about being Irish.
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