Software Process Improvement [electronic resource] : 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Ireland, September 3-5, 2008. Proceedings / edited by Rory V. O’Connor, Nathan Baddoo, Kari Smolander, Richard Messnarz.

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 -- ProPAMet: A Metric for Process and Project Alignment.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Irland, September 2008. The 18 revised full papers presented together with one introductory paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on organisational issues; productivity, effort estimation metrics; standards reference models; documentation knowledge management as well as project issues.