General Info

SPI Experience

EuroSPI conferences present and discuss practical results from improvement projects in industry, focussing on the benefits gained and the criteria for success. Leading European industry are contributing to and participating in this event. This year's event is the third one to be hosted in Scandinavia which has one of the most vibrant SPI communities in Europe and is home to some of the top electronics companies. It is the 7th of a series of conferences to which countries across Europe and from the rest of the world contributed their lessons learned and shared their knowledge to reach the next higher level of software management professionalism.

Who should attend?

The conference will benefit all who are concerned with the management and improvement of organisational processes, the innovation and effective use of information systems and software processes, as well as all those who are interested in developing efficient and profitable work processes to increase the competitiveness of the organisation in the market.

Topics

• SPI and Business Strategies
• Assessement Methodologies
• Improvement Planning
• Learning Organizations
• Innovation
• Measurement
• Goal Analysis and Improvement
• Experience Reports (Implementation)
• SPI in different Industry branches
• SPI in different Process areas
• SPI Networks and Systems

Call for Participation

Presentations will be from leading companies and experts in the field. Abstracts for papers of approx. 200 words should be sent to the conference secretariat (ASCII text by Email is preferred) no later than 28.4.2000. ESSI Process Improvement Experiments (PIE) and European projects disseminating process improvement related results are encouraged to participate.

Vendor Track

Beside the two stream conference, on one afternoon EuroSPI plans to run a vendor track. Exhibitors can register for this vendor track and get a 30 minutes presentation. This presentation will be advertised in the conference program.

Associated Events

In conjuction with this conference there will be a mini-seminars and workshop day dealing with practical issues of Software Process Improvement. Workshop leaders will be recognised experts in the field.The workshops cover the following topics:

• Business and Goal Based SPI
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis
• GQM workshop
• Data Analysis
• Assessment Methodologies
• SPI in Innovation Management
• Teamwork Based SPI Principles and Experience