International Software Process Association (ISPA)

Conference Programmes

Wednesday 4 December

Certified Software Process Improvement Practitioner (CSPIP), Gathering
of the EuroSPINs, and others to be announced

Thursday 5 December

The ESSI (European Systems and Software Initiative) Program
Mechthild Rohen: ESSI office, CEC

• ISCN 96 : Process improvement combined approaches
  Chair to be announced

  PICO (Process Improvement Combined Apporach): a new strategy for implementing the paradigm of a learning organisation
  The PICO Team

  Improving total software performance in the context of total business performance
  Colin Tully: ISCN and CTA (UK)

  BICO - Benchmarking and ISO Combined
  Hans Scherzer, Susanne Lanzerstorfer: APAC (Austria)

  A lean life cyle and team model supporting the concepts of component software and outsourcing
  Gerhard Rutschek: Festo (Austria)

• ICSP 4 : Process improvement in practice
  Chair Judi Brodman (USA)

  Impelmenting the Personal Software Process in an industrial setting
  Khaled El Emam - Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany)
  Barry Shostak, Nazim H. Madhavji - McGill University (Canada)

  Improvement approaches in Norway: a survey-based study
  Karlheinz Kautz: Norwegian Computing Centre (Norway)

  Inter-rater agreement in SPICE- based assessments: some preliminary results
  Khaled El Emam - Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany)
  Dennis Goldenson: SEI, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
  Peter Marshall: Defence Research Agency (UK)

• SPI 96 : About models
  Chair Maurizio Morisio: Politecnico de Milano (Italy)

  Towards a Software Process Reference Model (SPRM)
  Sunny Wang, I. Court, Margaret Ross, Geoff Staples, G. King: Southampton Institute (UK)

  A framework for technology introduction in software organisations
  Claes Wohlin: Lund University (Sweden)
  Anders Gustavsson: Q-Labs (Sweden)
  Martin Höst: Lund University (Sweden)
  Christer Mausson: Q-Labs (Sweden)

  Final paper to be announced

• SPICE 96 : SPICE trials: experiences conducting SPICE version 2 assessments
  Chair Hakan Wickberg: IVF (Sweden)

  ProcEss Assessment for CErtification (PEACE): an ESSI project experience
  Jean-Martin Simon, Marielle Anglade: CISI (France)

  Experiences conducting SPICE- conformant CBA IPI assessments
  Steve Masters: SEI, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

  Experiences conducting SPICE- conformant Bootstrap assessments
  Pasi Kuvaja: BOOTSTRAP Institute (Finland)

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